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Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
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Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was...
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Pyrofax Plant

Date: 08 1929
Description: Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue. Men are pouring a cement floor.
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Nilles Hardware and Paints Co.

Date: 07 03 1929
Description: Nilles Hardware and Paints Co., 2330 Atwood Avenue, interior.
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Youth Council Cleaning Street

Date: 04 09 1947
Description: Youth council spring clean-up committee cleaning the street in front of the Madison Community Center. Left to right: Rebecca Wilson, Martha Truog, George S...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Blacksmith Shop

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Description: The interior of the University of Wisconsin-Madison blacksmith shop. A man stands with his hands crossed in the shop, surrounded by various blacksmith impl...
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Union Farm and Garden Tool Delivery Truck

Date: 06 21 1938
Description: Two men look at shovels stored in the back of an International D-15 truck owned by Union Farm and Garden Tool Company. The truck is parked along the curb i...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Hostel Highlights

Date: 06 26 1940
Description: Page from the scrapbook of bike hosteling trips sponsored by Neighborhood House, with highlights from the second hostel trip to the Post Farm Hostel in Mad...
Postcard

Telephone Linemen

Date: 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of an outdoor group portrait of a telephone line crew. The six men are wearing hats and work clothes, and five of the men are wearing...
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Boys' Woodwork Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Group of boys at a woodworking session in the basement shop at Neighborhood House, with boys posing with various tools and planks of wood. In the far backg...
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Two Men Scraping Hives

Date: 04 1934
Description: Two men scraping diseased hives.
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Interior of Repair Shop

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Description: Interior view of a machine shop, possibly for wagon or vehicle repair. A wood burning stove is on the left. In the center is a bank of drawers and cubby ho...
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Interior of Bowar Bros. Garage

Date: 1915
Description: Interior view of the Bowar Bros. Garage. On two walls are banks of drawers and cubby holes for tools and parts. On the right are more shelves for tools. Am...
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Raising "Wisconsin" to the Wisconsin State Capitol Dome

Date: 07 20 1914
Description: Several men are looking at the statue "Wisconsin" as she rests on a low scaffold on the roof of the West Wing. The statue is wrapped with rope and attached...
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Raising "Wisconsin" to the Wisconsin State Capitol Dome

Date: 07 20 1914
Description: A group of men look on as the statue "Wisconsin" is lifted from the crate using ropes and pulleys. Ropes are wrapped around the statue and the statue's rig...
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"Tiger Woman"

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Description: Nude woman with body painting eating a plate of strawberries and whipped cream. Sitting on a stool in a garage, she is painted like a tiger, with stripes c...
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Sid Sitting on Stool Under Torii Gate

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Description: View towards backyard with Sid is sitting on a stool under the torii gate that has recently been anchored into the ground. He has a pitchfork. Madison-Kipp...
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Construction Site with View of the Wisconsin State Capitol

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Description: A State Office Building construction site, downtown, with a view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Two men on the right are working with boards on sawhorses....
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh...

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