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Wisconsin Central Pile Driver Car

Date: 1907
Description: Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks.
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Men with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: Men loading corn stalks from a horse-drawn wagon into a husker-shredder. A ladder is in the right foreground and corn husks cover the ground.
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Men with Concrete Mixer

Date: 1915
Description: Two men posing at a construction site with an International stationary engine and concrete mixer. One of the men is wearing a work apron from Botsford Lumb...
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Florence Lawrence and Laura Oakley in "The Pawns of Destiny"

Date: 1914
Description: Florence Lawrence, seated at a table with a mop, bucket, and feather duster, has stopped work to read a book. Behind her an older woman, probably played by...
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Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
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Field Carpentry Shop

Date: 1914
Description: Two German soldiers shaping axe handles at a field carpentry shop.
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Soldiers Repairing Roads

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers are using the stones of a destroyed factory to repair and improve a roadbed. The walls of the destroyed factory are in the background.
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Loading Bricks for Use in Roadbuilding

Date: 1915
Description: Bricks from a destroyed factory building are being collected for use in the improvement of poor roadways in Serbia during World War I.
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Men Carrying Supplies for Repairing Bad Roads in Enemy Territory

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers and civilians carrying supplies for repairing bad roads in enemy territory during World War I.
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Repairing Bad Roads in Enemy Territory

Date: 1914
Description: Two soldiers are repairing bad roads in enemy territory.
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on a Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on a shoreline in the South Tyrol. The men are barefoot and standing in the water, while one of the ...
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Constructing Barbed Wire Entanglements on the Shoreline

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are setting up a barbed wire defense on the shoreline. The men are barefoot and standing in the water with their pants rolled up.
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Blacksmith Shop on the Front

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Description: Field blacksmith shop.
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Presents from Home

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Description: Presents from home being distributed to troops preparing a New Year's punch. The group of men is standing near a building, and other soldiers are standing ...
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Digging a Hole for a Telephone Pole

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Description: Digging in a telephone pole.
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Soldiers Pack Tins for Shipment

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Description: Soldiers packing tins for shipment.
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Repairing Cannons at the "Cannon Hospital"

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Description: At a "cannon hospital" on the Carpathian front. Even the best constructed artillery pieces must be refurbished from time to time. That is why the introduc...
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Digging Soldier's Graves in Russian Poland

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Description: "Oh Czar, could you ever imagine this." In the palace garden, Russian prisoners digging graves for our brave soldiers who have died heroes' deaths in Russi...
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Austrians Dig Trenches

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Description: Austrian sailors, who have completed their service and for whom no other military need was pressing, are being sent to dig trenches.
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Midday Meal in the Desert

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Description: The midday meal is being prepared in the desert.

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