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Dow Chemical Demonstration

Date: 1967
Description: University of Wisconsin-Madison students clash with riot police during campus demonstration to protest Dow Chemical involvement in the Vietnam conflict. He...
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Man on Tall Ladder

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Description: Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil...
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Fire Truck on Country Road

Date: 1918
Description: Four men dressed in fire fighting gear driving a fire truck on State Highway 47 near Appleton. The Wisconsin Highway Commission which published this photo...
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Girl in a Mini-Race Car

Date: 05 02 1956
Description: Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car.
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Football Team

Date: 1899
Description: Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of members of a Whitewater, Wisconsin football team.
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Operating Theater

Date: 1902
Description: Dr. Nicholas Senn demonstrates surgical techniques at Rush Medical College.
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Coal Miners

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Description: A group of coal miners.
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Enola the Welder

Date: 02 1943
Description: Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o...
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Casting Aluminum

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Description: Two men casting molten aluminum into slabs by hand at the Mirro Aluminum Company.
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Rolling Aluminum

Date: 1923
Description: Men rolling aluminum by hand at the Mirro Aluminum Company.
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Woman Holding Trout and Fly-Fishing Rod

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Description: A woman wearing waders and a hat holds up a trout in her right hand and a fly-fishing rod in her left hand. Attached to her hat are fly-fishing flies, and ...
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Arc Welding

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Description: Franklin Fransway receives vocational training in arc welding.
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Machine Shop Worker

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Description: A man wearing safety goggles and an apron while working in a machine shop. He may be part of a safety program.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Two men harvesting cranberries with cranberry rakes in Wisconsin marshes. There is a barge near them on the right.
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Woman Raking Cranberries

Date: 1955
Description: Woman using a cranberry rake to harvest cranberries near Wisconsin Rapids.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of a Wisconsin cranberry bog and harvest. Men are harvesting in the flooded cranberry marshes.
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Racer

Date: 1949
Description: Philip Lenhart with his soap box derby car, Silverstreak. Lenhart wears a helmet and a Wisconsin State Journal t-shirt.
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Poultry Science

Date: 1925
Description: Group of ten people, both men and women, observing a researcher working in a laboratory with young chickens in a wire cage beneath a lamp. The researcher w...
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Oscar Mayer & Co. Sliced Bacon Department

Date: 01 1949
Description: Women preparing sliced bacon at the Oscar Mayer & Co. plant in Madison. At least fifteen women are working, most most of them wearing headscarves. Caption ...

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