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Window Washer

Date: 05 14 1989
Description: A man leans out a window to clean the outside glass.
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Streetcar Conductors

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Description: Streetcar conductors pose next to street car #109 on the Oshkosh/Omro line, with the H.C. Roenitz wholesale shoe and rubber company warehouse in the backgr...
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Cutover Shacker Hanging Laundry

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Description: In a photograph taken for the Farm Security Administration, a man hangs socks to dry on a clothesline on land where trees have been cut down, or cutover.
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Turn-of-the-Century Bicyclists

Date: 1900
Description: Sidney Catle, on bike, stands with his sister Sarah to his right, Harvey Richards, and twin sisters.
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National Open Golf Tournament

Date: 1930
Description: Golfer tees off in the 1930 National Open Golf Tournament at the Interlachen Country Club while KSTP radio broadcasts from their first mobile remote broadc...
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Farmer's Birthday

Date: 07 07 1983
Description: John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion.
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Kiss for a Soldier

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: An American soldier receives a kiss in gratitude for the liberation of Paris during World War II.
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Liberators and the Liberated

Date: 02 1945
Description: GIs from the U.S. 76th Infantry Division make friends with two Yugoslav soldiers and a Russian woman who were freed from a German prison camp during World ...
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Pasta Factory

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Description: Workers posing with racks of fresh pasta drying in the sun in Naples, Italy.
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Confederacy of Dunces

Date: 10 12 1984
Description: Men wearing Ronald Reagan masks and dunce caps make their way through a crowd.
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Baiting the Hook

Date: 07 27 1941
Description: An elderly man looking blissful, sitting in a boat getting ready to cast his line.
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Feeding Logs into the Mill

Date: 1930
Description: Workers push logs floating in the Wisconsin River into alignment to enter a building for processing.
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Ringling Brothers Circus Wagons

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Description: Elevated view of Ringling Brothers circus wagons, horses, and tents, with the Chicago skyline in the background.
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The Conklin Fire

Date: 1915
Description: Fire fighters standing amid smoking timbers aim their hoses to douse the flames.
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Teachers Picket

Date: 11 08 1967
Description: Teachers protest the lack of a "concrete offer" for a new contract in front of the Milwaukee vocational school.
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I Like Ike

Date: 11 10 1956
Description: Bet winner and Eisenhower supporter Edwin L. Warner enjoys his payoff from bet loser and Adlai Stevenson backer John Shaat, as Shaat tows Warner along the ...
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Grave of the Unknown

Date: 1975
Description: A veteran places a flower on the grave of an unknown soldier.
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Circus Tent Construction Workers

Date: 08 16 1984
Description: Young men, workers for the Carson & Barnes Circus, carrying heavy circus tent poles through a field.
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Ringling Circus Wagon and Clowns

Date: 1910
Description: A Ringling Circus wagon, pulled by a horse, with clowns riding on top, is part of a parade along a city street.
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Gogebic Range Miners

Date: 1886
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners.

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