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The Ray A. Johnson photograph album contains approximately 100 photographs of scenes from western Wisconsin and Minnesota.

The Ray A. Johnson photograph album contains approximately 100 photographs of scenes from western Wisconsin and Minnesota. The album (18.5 x 30 cm) has black pebbled cloth covers. Many photographs show scenes around Johnson's home in Dunn County, Wisconsin, including a street view of West Knapp, friends in outdoor settings, school groups, the Eau Claire High School classes of 1899 and 1900, the high school women's basketball team, and the school fan drill team. Three photographs show extensive damage in New Richmond, Wisconsin, likely from the 1899 tornado. Minnesota-related photographs show Minnehaha Falls, Minnesota State Fair buildings, and Native American burial mounds in St. Paul. Also included are images of locomotives from the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad; the Knapp, Wisconsin railroad station; four men standing on railroad tracks with a handcar; track construction with a Bucyrus steam shovel at work; the interior of a sawmill; and two Booth Line steamers, Argo andS.B. Barker. Individual portraits include an older man with a Grand Army of the Republic medal sitting among American flags, and a young girl posed outdoors with her dolls and accessories. Ray Johnson is included in several photographs, alone and among friends and family members.