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Vote Recording Machine

Date: 1919
Description: Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Exterior of Post Office

Date: 1955
Description: View across street towards the Post Office.
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John Deere Parade

Date: 1992
Description: A John Deere company commercial being shot on the streets of Horicon, Wisconsin. The parade celebrated the 2,000,000 lawn and grounds care products to com...
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Plumbers Union Card

Date: 05 21 1947
Description: Fifty-year-old Plumbers Union card, the first issued by the Madison Plumbers Union, Local 167, in 1897. Shown are signatures of Walter J. Hyland, secretary...
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Turbine in Shed

Date: 1937
Description: Byron Jackson Deep-well Turbine in a shed. The turbine was powered by an International P-12 power unit. Next to the turbine are water outlets to an irrigat...
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Robert Bowles Oil Company

Date: 11 15 1937
Description: A man stands near the opened door of the corrugated shed of the Robert Bowles Oil Company. The company used an International Model 300 power unit to power ...
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Man and Titan Type D Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Side view of man at the wheel of his Titan Type D tractor in a field.
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Powered Hay Press

Date: 1914
Description: Men bale hay using an IHC hay press or baling press.
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Roundy Coughlin and Friends

Date: 12 01 1951
Description: Portrait of Roundy Coughlin with three friends.
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Robert M. La Follette, Furuseth and Lincoln Steffens

Date: 1915
Description: Robert La Follette (center) poses with Andrew Furuseth (left) and Lincoln Steffens.
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Men Working on Construction of Silo

Date: 1915
Description: Men working on the construction site for a new silo. Three men work in a pit to establish the foundation, and three other men work in the background near a...
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Log Driving Crew

Date: 1910
Description: Logging crew standing on planks and logs possibly in a sorting works on the Yellow River. One man holds a ledger and the others hold long cant hooks.
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Pesticide Application

Date: 05 17 1929
Description: A man drives an International tractor through an orchard while another man uses an orchard sprayer to apply what is probably pesticide to the trees.
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Pesticide Application at Night

Date: 1929
Description: Two men use a McCormick-Deering tractor and an orchard sprayer to apply pesticide to trees at night.
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Lifting the Nets on Lake Superior

Date: 1937
Description: Four men in a large row boat lifting fishing nets on Lake Superior near Cornucopia.
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Pioneer Pauline Frederick

Date: 03 1949
Description: Pauline Frederick (center in the fur coat), then the only woman news broadcaster at ABC, was one of many prominent women who addressed the Advertising Wome...
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CCC Workers in Trucks

Date: 1935
Description: Civilian Conservation Corps workers at the Devil's Lake State park camp waving from trucks. Others men stand in the dirt road nearby.
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Fish Car

Date: 1935
Description: Two men are standing in front of a railroad car on railroad tracks. A blanket is hanging over a line tied to the railing of the car. On the reverse of the ...
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Wright and Vand Der Rohe

Date: 1938
Description: Frank Lloyd Wright, Mies Van Der Rohe, and others at the Johnson Wax building construction site.

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