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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Grandma Martha (Goetsch) Buelke posed in front of a barn with her favorite cow. She is holding a milking pail. |
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| Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
| Date: | 04 18 1917 |
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| Description: | Young boys digging a garden in an urban setting on "Mowhawk Street near Larrabee." Original caption reads: "Newberry School boys who have gotten into the h... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A baby sits in a galvanized tub holding on to the sides. The tub is on top of a chair with a can of talcum powder next to it. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | View of the interior of Tate & Kleinpell Hardware, with stoves, churns, seeds and other items displayed for sale. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the butcher shop section of the Fowler and Holmes Store. There is wood paneling and cabinetry throughout the room, shelving and hooks on t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, holding the toy airplane, and a group of friends, all of whom are wearing short pants, sitting on the windowsill in fron... |
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| Description: | A young boy is mowing the lawn, while two women and a man are posing in the yard and on the porch of a two-story house. |
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| Description: | A studio portrait of six women posing in front of a painted backdrop. They are holding household items including an iron, knife, potato, dustpan, broom, pi... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men lifting a net full of fish over the side of a boat. The original caption reads: "Shrimp fleet." |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a hand-turned meat tenderizing apparatus. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two women sitting in front of three standing women, all holding household items, including: pie, iron, cup, towel, platter, and glasses.... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Large stone identified as the anvil block upon which Cyrus McCormick built the first reaper. The stone is likely on the grounds of International Harvester'... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A Native American (possibly Ho-Chunk) family rests at their campsite under a large tree. There is a bucket suspended over a small campfire. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | The head and foot boards of a maple bed lean against two cupboards. The cupboards hold pewter ware as well as crockery. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Sauk City author August Derleth sitting in a wing back chair near a fireplace in his home, "The Place of Hawks." |
| Date: | 10 30 1917 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the manual training room at Orange Township Consolidated School. Work tables stand throughout the room and the walls are lined with cabine... |
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