COLBY, WISCONSIN
CENTENNIAL
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Transcribed by: Robert Lipprandt.
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Area Scenes~Renditions |
Military~American
Legion Military~VFW Auxiliary |
Area Scenes~Renditions | Page | Photograph | Notes |
4th of July Parade (date unknown) #1 | 123 | Yes | Henry Reeves & William Will |
4th of July Parade (date unknown) #2 | 123 | Yes | Mr. & Mrs. Johnny Grimes |
4th of July Parade (early 1900's) | 123 | Yes | No identification |
Adams, Cedric Program | 78 | Yes | Identified: Mr. & Mrs. Frischman, Mr. Adams, Mrs. Chuck Brown, |
and Mr. Chuck Brown | |||
Assembly of "The Brothers of the Bush" | 132 | Yes | 1973, unidentified individuals |
Badger Orchestra | 123 | Yes | Wm. Roth, unknown, O. Heintz & V. Minchell |
Band Stand | 124 | Yes | NW corner of Spence and 2nd Street |
Central Park (aka Colby Park) | 105 | Yes | Early 1900's, Henry Behrens - Caretaker |
Clark Mills Inc. Fire | 76 | Yes | Colby, 1948 |
Colby Air Photograph | 131 | Yes | Date unknown |
Colby City Council | 118 | Yes | Date unknown, Neumester, Riplinger, Gotchy, Slater, Shafer and |
Roth | |||
Colby City Council (1973) | 118 | Yes | Scidmore, Jacobson, Schultz, Strathman, Beyerl, Wibben, |
Brunker Allmann, Tesmer and Dix | |||
Colby City Garage | 119 | Yes | Built in 1896 |
Colby City Hall | 119 | Yes | Built in 1952 |
Colby City Hall/Fire Hall/Library/Council Rooms | 78 | Yes | Colby |
Colby City Water Tower | 119 | Yes | |
Colby Lions club (1940), Land O' Cotton | 122 | Yes | Anton Umhoefer, Woodrow Tesmer, Con Niggeman, Fred |
Schwierske, Norman Marsh, I. M. Firnstahl, Gorton Vorland, | |||
Wm. Keppel, Wm. Pacholke, Edwin Klassey, Clarence Nelsen, | |||
C. J. Kraus, Richard Allen, Otto Heintz, Frank Weix, Norman Orth, | |||
Angus Lamont Sr., Fred Kobs, Harry Bender, Bernadette Kraus, | |||
Wm. Roth, Wayne Davis, Ralph Abrahamson, Lloyd Smith, | |||
Arland Stall, Bernard Cunningham, Chester Kleiber, Junior | |||
Tesmer, Floyd Eder, C. R. Whitney & Carl Mundt | |||
Colby Milling Co., Fire | 76 | Yes | Colby, 1959 |
Colby Waste Treatment Plant | 119 | Yes | Built in 1971 |
Colby Water Treatment Plant | 119 | Yes | Built in 1967 |
Division Street | 30 | Yes | Unidentified individuals |
Eau Pleine River Bank | 103 | Yes | Unidentified individuals |
Eder's Parachute Jump | 35 | Yes | New York World's Fair |
German Band | 20 | Yes | Serenading Wm. Greseke |
Gray Automobile | 55 | Yes | Unnamed individuals |
Gutenberger Barn, after fire | 22 | Yes | Barn destroyed (1967) |
Gutenberger Farm, after gale | 20 | Yes | Farm buildings destroyed (1964) |
Imperial Automobiles | 55 | Yes | Unnamed individuals |
Kobs, Albert Saloon | 123 | Yes | Present site of Security State Bank |
Lamont's Hill Snowshovel Brigade | 78 | Yes | Unnamed individuals (Feb 13 1923) |
Main Street Colby | 4 | Yes | 1890, artist unnamed |
Market Day | 124 | Yes | No identification |
Old Logging Scene | 104 | Yes | 1885, Mrs. Fred Olson's father, M. F. Tuttle |
Packaging Corporation of America air photograph | 131 | Yes | No date |
Peterson, N. P. home (1906) | 125 | Yes | N. P. Peterson, Martha Peterson and John Peterson |
Santa Claus (no date) | 125 | Yes | John Anderson, mentions Wilde's tree lot & C. L. Coleman |
Saw Mill on Eau Pleine River | 104 | Yes | Unidentified people, owners Charles Taylor (1873), Paul |
Umhoefer (1891), E. V. Kautsky (1901), Fred Olson (1914) | |||
Scenes, downtown | 116 & 117 | Yes | Colby, dates unknown |
Scenes, "Market day on the square" | 123 | Yes | No identification |
Scenes, Hwy. N - SE Spense and S 3rd | 123 | Yes | Theodore Lueloff, Ed Zillmer, Fred Lueloff & Paul Tesmer |
Scenes, Dr's clinic & Sabler building | 123 | Yes | No identification |
Snowsnake (1926) | 74 | Yes | Early snowmobile, Frank Goeltz Sr. |
Train wreck at Long Bridge (1910) | 124 | Yes | South of Colby, no identification |
Tri City Band (1940's-50's) | 122 | Yes | M. T. Thompson, Arthur Julivette, Clarence Gosse, John |
Dallenbach, Clarence Weetz, Gilbert Farvue, Melvin Gosse, | |||
Bill Roth, Bill Gosse, M. G. Hammel, Dr. Schief, Frank Hibsch, | |||
Hammel, Beulah Hinke, Dr. Hinke, Arlan Stall, Hasrold Monroe, | |||
Hal Nelson, Harry Bender, Dorothy Nelson, Hammel, Hans | |||
Amacher, Clarence Nelson, Emil Dallenbach, Conrad | |||
Dallenbach, Hamel, Andy Garvue, John Hanson, Richard | |||
Wagner, George Blank, Meryl Jewnks, Pete Golden, Herman | |||
Kronschnabel, Margery Thompson, M. C. Thompson, William | |||
Monroe, Elmer Cornelius and Delos Kobs | |||
Unloading compete threshing rig | 74 | Yes | Unnamed individuals |
Victory parade 1918 | 124 | Yes | North and Main |
Wagon Load of cheese boxes | 56 | Yes | Drivers: Charley Adams, Louis Young and Paul Draeger |
Welcome to Colby | 1 | Yes | Unidentified individuals |
Will, William residence | 125 | Yes | No identification, home only |
Womanless Wedding of Colby stage play (photo #1) | 121 | Yes | John Reeves, McKenzie Andrews, Arthur Frane, Theodore Frane, |
Con Niggemann, Lawrence Mueller, O. R. Briggs, Fred J. Kobs, | |||
Ben Wing, Hugo Krepsky, William Pacholke, Walter Wiersig, | |||
Donald Zillman, Louis Frane, Lawrence Allmann, Clarence | |||
Dolan, Wm. Waldhart, F. W. Lulloff, Fred Schwierske, Lawrence | |||
Olson, William Will, Otto Baumgart, Albert Dins, Alfred Rein, | |||
Frank Seidel, Dick Reyer, Morris Rein, C. J. Kraus, Herman | |||
Tesmer, Ted Salter, John Coats, Harry Bender, E. A. Fleischauer, | |||
Arnold Sill, John Gries, Arthur Laabs, Frank Schmutzler, Anton | |||
Umhoefer, Joseph Allain, Oscar Sturner, Herbert Schmutzler, | |||
Malcohn Lamont, Walter Heise, William Roth, Joseph Weix, | |||
John Lukowicz, Robert Strathman, Morman Orth, Raymond Gries, | |||
I. M. Firnstahl, Claude Whitney, Bert Hanson, Eugene | |||
Schmutzler, R. Hunt, Chas. Rasmussen, Walter Mueller, Edward | |||
Bartik, Dr. P. L. McDonald, Clarence Nelson, Chester Daines | |||
Womanless Wedding of Colby state play (photo #2) | 121 | Yes | Don Frane, Wm. Haas, Al Krueger, Pay Youman, Ray Gries, |
Virgil Frane, Noel Schelling, Elroy Augustine, Louis Schulz, | |||
Eugene Herrmann, Merlin Schjoneman, David Stieber, Wayne | |||
Davis, Norb Diedrich, Tony Beck, Clayton Wright, Marvin Kistler, | |||
Bud Hemmy, Bud Nelson, Angus Lamont, Milford Frome, Pete | |||
Peters, Ervin Kademan, Schookman, Jerome Schultz, Howie | |||
Rannow, M. Anderson, Arnold Strathman, Bill Young, Ed | |||
Allmann, Harold Kademan, Mike Stieber, Bernadette Kraus | |||
Unnamed city photographs | 128 & 129 | Yes | Date unknown |
Last Updated on 12/21/2003
By Robert Lippbrandt
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