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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Farmer spreading manure in a field with a Farmall H tractor and manure spreader (possibly a model 100). |
| Date: | 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Windsled used to transport passengers and goods between Madeline Island and Bayfield. This image was in Ross' book, "La Pointe: Village Outpost". |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Constructing the Madeline Island Historical Museum in La Pointe which consists of four separate buildings. L-to-r: jail; American Fur Trade storage buildin... |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | TWUA officials are shown seated at a table during a strike meeting with picket signs in front of the table. From left to right are business manager Charles... |
| Date: | 06 01 1956 |
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| Description: | A man standing in a television retail store. A number of television sets are displayed, including one Hallicrafters set. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a farmer in a field pulling a hay rake with a McCormick Farmall C tractor. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | International TD-24 and TD-18 TracTracTors (crawler tractors) at work on the site of the Mauvoisin Dam in Switzerland's Mont Blanc region. The dam, begun i... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View towards a man operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with attached cultivator in a field. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an International model R-202 oil field truck owned by M.R. Dixon. The truck is parked in an oil field with oil derricks in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of two men servicing oil field equipment. An International model RDF-192 truck owned by "Dowell" is parked in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of workers positioning an International model RF-190 oil field truck near an oil derrick. The truck was owned by Schlumberger Well Servici... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of town, with commercial buildings, and cars in parking lots. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A homestead built in 1844, and hence a "century homestead" in Rock Prairie. |
| Date: | 06 30 1957 |
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| Description: | Nancy Waterman unsuccessfully pours milk for Harriet Anderson (whose name has since changed to Penny Hilley) at the Wonder Spot. |
| Date: | 08 1954 |
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| Description: | Couple on a wooden bridge over a dirt road at Birchcliff Lodge. |
| Date: | 08 1957 |
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| Description: | Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at Highlander's 25th Anniversary, August-September, inside Highlander Library. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Pete Seeger playing the 5-string banjo at the 25th Anniversary of Highlander Folk School in the Library building. |
| Date: | 04 1954 |
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| Description: | A young Menominee Indian (Charles ?) pauses briefly for a photograph while straddling his bicycle. He is stopped on the road with the snow-covered Wolf Riv... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall H tractor with a forward cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Blackla... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a man using a McCormick Farmall H tractor outfitted with a cotton planter to work in a field. The original caption reads: "'Furro... |
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