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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards Indian log drivers, two in a bateau, and one man standing on the bank of the Chippewa River. |
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| Description: | General Motors chassis assembly. Men are working among the machinery. |
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| Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine. |
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| Description: | Miners probably grading galena (lead) ore by putting pieces in drums with holes and letting smaller ones fall through. |
| Date: | 08 16 1984 |
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| Description: | Young men, workers for the Carson & Barnes Circus, carrying heavy circus tent poles through a field. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a girl sitting on a barrel as a man dumps apples into a press to make cider. Two men manually operate the press at the left. |
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| Description: | Two men casting molten aluminum into slabs by hand at the Mirro Aluminum Company. |
| Date: | 12 11 1983 |
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| Description: | Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader. |
| Date: | 03 14 1985 |
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| Description: | Young man wearing a knit cap and flannel shirt stacking bales of hay in a barn. |
| Date: | 08 31 |
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| Description: | A mason at work is putting mortar on a brick. |
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| Description: | Four men in aprons and a boy stand outside a machine shop. |
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