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Street View in Wadena Minnesota, 1885
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Methodist Church, Wadena Minnesota, 1894
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School in Wadena Minnesota, 1895
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Birds Eye View, Wadena Minnesota, 1900's
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Chief Wadena, White Earth Minnesota, 1905
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Third Street, Wadena Minnesota, 1906
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Third Street in Wadena Minnesota, 1907
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Third Street, Wadena Minnesota, 1908
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Birds eye view, east side Third Street, Wadena Minnesota, 1908
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Birds eye view, Wadena Minnesota, 1909
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Main Street, Wadena Minnesota, 1909
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Methodist Church, Wadena Minnesota, 1909
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Wadena County Courthouse, Wadena Minnesota, 1909
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Street Scene, Wadena Minnesota, 1909
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Public School, Wadena Minnesota, 1910
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First National Bank, Wadena Minnesota, 1910
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Methodist Episcopal Church, Wadena Minnesota, 1910
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Merchants Hotel, Wadena Minnesota, 1910
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Congregational Church, Wadena Minnesota, 1915
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Third Street in Wadena Minnesota, 1915
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Main Street, Wadena Minnesota, 1920
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Power Plant and Water Tower, Wadena Minnesota, 1920's?
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Wesley Hospital, Wadena Minnesota, 1920's?
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Main Street looking north, Wadena Minnesota, 1920's?
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Fair Oaks Lodge Sanatorium, Wadena Minnesota, 1920's
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Post Office, Wadena Minnesota, 1920's
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Main Street in Wadena Minnesota looking south, 1923
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Fair Oaks Lodge Sanatorium, Wadena Minnesota, 1925
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Jefferson Street, Wadena Minnesota, 1930
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Jefferson Street from Colfax Avenue in Wadena Minnesota, 1930
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Jefferson Street looking south in Wadena Minnesota, 1930's
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High School, Wadena Minnesota, 1930's
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Entering Wadena Minnesota on US Highway 10, 1937
Courtesy US Library of Congress

Street Scene, Downtown Wadena Minnesota, 1940
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Jefferson Street, Wadena Minnesota, 1940
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Street scene, Wadena Minnesota, 1940's
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Auditorium, Wadena Minnesota, 1940's
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Congregational Church, Wadena Minnesota, 1940's?
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Post Office, Wadena Minnesota, 1950's
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Aerial view, Wadena Sawmill Company, Wadena Minnesota, 1950's?
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Route 71 through Wadena Wadena Minnesota, 1959
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Street scene, Wadena Minnesota, 1960
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Jefferson Street, Wadena Minnesota, 1960's
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Twin Spruce Motel, Wadena Minnesota, 1970
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Entering Wadena on Highway 71, 2007
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Street View and Water Tower, Wadena Minnesota, 2007
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Downtown Wadena Minnesota, 2007
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Downtown Wadena Minnesota, 2007
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An apparently cold summer afternoon in Wadena Minnesota, 2007
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Sign for the abandoned Wadena Drive Inn Theater on Highway 71, 2007
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View of Bryant Avenue in Downtown Wadena Minnesota, 2007
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