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| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Charles "Speed" Holman and Ed Ballough, the Laird Team, after the New York to Los Angeles air race. Minnesotan Charles Holman earned his nickname by racing... |
| Date: | 10 1869 |
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| Description: | The second Wisconsin State Capitol dome under construction, showing the workmen and the equipment they used to hoist construction materials into place. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image of two men loading cranberries in crates into an open air drying shed shortly after harvest. |
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| Description: | Hand-colored image of field hands harvesting with cranberry rakes from a flooded cranberry marsh. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Group of boys at a woodworking session in the basement shop at Neighborhood House, with boys posing with various tools and planks of wood. In the far backg... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Group of boys standing in line, holding empty plates to be filled by a cook, wearing a chef's hat, who is standing behind a half-door with a pan in one han... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A workman poses beside a belt-driven polisher inside a shed at the Montello granite quarry. Two other men relax in the background near an open door where n... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two men stand on a ledge in the granite quarry in Montello. Three other men stand below. The side of the quarry rises up above the group in the background.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Montello granite quarry grounds shows piles of granite paving blocks. In the background, a team of horses pulls a wagon under an elevated narro... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking southeast at a cut face of the granite quarry. A worker stands on a ledge on the right. There are ropes and ladders in the quarry. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of two men and two women carrying packs. One of the women and one of the men are squatting on the ground. All four are naked abo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Carrie Chapman Catt, in her journal from her trip to Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), describes the tea plantations: "the little brown women, picking tea, was an in... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of a kneeling girl on the left who is cutting tea on a wooden board on the ground. A girl and a woman stand working on a woven m... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two women stand while separating rice from the stalks. Two children stand between them to watch. The description on the lower right hand side says: "separa... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers in a field stripping barley grains from the stalks. The workers are all wearing blue clothing, and some are wearing wide-brimmed hats. The bundles ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man and a woman squat on a mat on the floor, whipping wool to prepare it for use. They wear white scarves on their heads. The bottom right of the image c... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A woman sitting on a beach using a loom. In her journals, Carrie often described looms and their use for making cloth for clothes, siding for houses, woven... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the newly constructed trestle bridge outside of Cape Town, South Africa. |
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