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| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A steam tractor provides power for a portable sawmill owned by Jake Karken. The large sawblade is still as men pose for the photographer. There is a team o... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Identified as "A lunch counter for birds," a platform feeder has been mounted on a fence post behind Gardners Prairie School, District No. 7, Town of Sprin... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A simple sign over the front door identifies the one-room Fairbanks School. A flag hangs from a pole mounted on the roof. The top of the door is ornamented... |
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| Description: | A girl standing in a field dressed in a man's baseball uniform. She is looking over her shoulder at the camera, and another woman wearing a hat and trouser... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Four young women wearing long white dresses climbing and posing on a fence. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Young boys playing baseball on a baseball field. One of the boys is running towards first base after hitting the ball, while another boy, in the infield, a... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of one woman using a loom and another woman preparing fibers for the loom to create siding for housing. This image was taken or purchased by C... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman and man grinding a variety of grain in a large stone mortar. The woman is wearing a blouse and skirt, the man is wearing white pants and is barefoo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of two women bowing to each other on opposite sides of an entrance gate to a yard. In her diary from Japan and South Korea, Carr... |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | August and Alexander Krueger loading hay with pitchforks onto a wagon with a two-horse team attached. August is standing on top of the wagon while Alexande... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three boys in black robes each holding a book. The boys stand with two potted plants, and a prop wall of s... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Four men wearing head wraps posing in a wide-legged stance. A group of people stand behind a fence in the left background watching. Carrie describes in her... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a fenced village of elevated, thatched buildings. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Halftone print of the landscaped shoreline and path at Forest Glen, the estate of Edward G. Uihlein, on the western end of Geneva Lake. A flag flies above ... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | A grist mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill, called Farwell's Madison Mills was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. The origina... |
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| Description: | A laughing young man and woman sitting on a stile. The man is wearing a straw hat and bow tie; she is wearing a striped dress and matching jacket. The woma... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a sign identifying the Spirit Rock, which is a large boulder surrounded by sturdy protective posts. There are tree stumps in the foreground and a w... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man standing in a wooded area. A light snowfall has highlighted linear ridges in the soil which indicate the location of Stockbridge Indian... |
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