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Amund and Siri Rustebakke and Women with Spinning Wheels

Date: 1873
Description: Amund Rustebakke, standing in doorway, and Siri Rustebakke, center, sitting, in front of a house with her daughters and daughter-in-law and four spinning w...
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Reliability Tours

Date: 09 1925
Description: Harry Bruno (second from the left), publicist for airplane builder Anthony Fokker, during the first Ford Air Reliability tour with Paul Smith, Bryce Goldsb...
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Norris & Rowe Circus Personnel

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Description: A group portrait of Norris & Rowe circus performers outside a tent at winter quarters, including clowns, riders, and high wire performers.
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7th Wisconsin Officers

Date: 1862
Description: Officers of Company I, 7th Wisconsin Infantry: (left to right) Lt. Joseph N.P. Bird, Captain George H. Walther, and Lt. Christopher Lefler. Their Black ser...
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Deer Hunters' Camp

Date: 1904
Description: Five deer hunters posing at a camp next to deer carcasses hanging up on a log pole.
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School

Date: 1890
Description: School children pose for a group portrait in front of a school.
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Family and Workers in Field

Date: 1895
Description: A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks.
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Troops at Camp Douglas

Date: 1862
Description: Large group of Union soldiers, possibly including Lieutenant D.G. Hudson, at Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois.
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The Original Cowboy Band

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Description: The Original Cowboy Band poses on the steps of Simmons University in Abeline, Texas. Writing on drum reads: "The Original Cow Boy Band" and writing on bann...
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Diomicio Saeng and Family

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Diomicio Saeng, the manager of Haciend El Tejon (76 miles Southwest of Metamoras, Mexico), posing with his five children and wife on the steps of their hom...
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Farm Family on Bales of Cotton

Date: 1921
Description: A couple with two children sitting on a bale of cotton in a barnyard posing for a portrait.
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Mexican School Children

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: A group of Mexican school children pose with their teacher near a palm tree in front of a schoolhouse.
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Wisconsin Telephone Company Building

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Description: A group of men with a horse-drawn vehicle are standing outside of the Wisconsin Telephone Company Building, located at 16-18 S. Carroll Street.
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Ole Emerson's Lumber Property

Date: 1904
Description: Winter scene with lumber workers hauling a large log with horses.
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Boys and Girls at Providence School

Date: 02 1915
Description: Group portrait of girls and boys standing in front of a wall outside their school. Original caption reads, in part: "Group of older girls and boys at Provi...
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Logging Crew with Cut Wood

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Description: Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks.
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Diversified Farming Speakers

Date: 02 19 1915
Description: Speakers from the diversified farming program stand in front of a brick building near an awning. Each person wears a winter coat and brimmed hat, and there...
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Gillespie Family at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 06 1930
Description: Group portrait of Josh Gillespie sitting with his wife and children on the steps of a farmhouse. Gillespie was foreman at International Harvester's Montgom...
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Students and Teachers Outside School

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait of students and teachers of the Woldale High School outside their school building.
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Youth Basketball Team

Date: 1913
Description: Group portrait of boys and girls dressed in basketball uniforms with teachers outside a gymnasium (at right) at the Woldale Rural School.

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