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Miners using a Pioneer Windlass

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Description: Early Wisconsin lead miners using a Pioneer Windlass.
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Down in the Zinc Mine

Date: 1910
Description: Miner inside a zinc mine.
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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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Pro-McKinley Political Cartoon

Date: 08 29 1896
Description: Cover of Harper's Weekly, with a pro-William McKinley Presidential cartoon depicting McKinley as a soldier in 1861 and William Jennings Bryan as an ...
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Red Dot Potato Chip Bagging Machine

Date: 1939
Description: A woman operates the bagging machine at the Red Dot potato chip factory.
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Zoot Suit

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Description: Man posing in a Zoot suit.
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Beauty Class

Date: 1927
Description: A beauty culture class in session.
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Barber Shop

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Description: Three barbers stand in the barber shop at the Princess Martha Hotel.
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Switchboard Operator

Date: 1915
Description: Josie Jepson (or Jepsen) at the telephone switchboard on Washington Island.
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Farmer Filling Manure Spreader

Date: 02 09 1911
Description: Farmer shoveling manure into the box of a horse-drawn International New Low manure spreader in a farm yard.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Date: 1940
Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt making a speech.
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Dancers Frolic Among the Trees

Date: 1923
Description: University of Wisconsin physical education interpretive dance students perform out of doors in a grassy meadow.
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Air Show Crowd

Date: 09 11 1955
Description: The crowd at "Air Progress Day," an air show sponsored by the Waukesha Aviation Club.
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Model Airplane Company

Date: 1940
Description: Assembly line packing by the Supreme Model Supply Co., a model airplane company started by Waukesha teenagers in 1940.
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Model Airplane Builder

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Description: Tony Italiano of Waukesha, founder of the Supreme Model Supply Co., with a large model airplane.
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WWI Ace

Date: 1918
Description: Rodney Williams, a World War I pilot from Delafield, Wisconsin, posed wearing his U.S. Air Service uniform. With five enemy aircraft downed in July 1918, ...
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Kaminski and his Curtiss Pusher

Date: 08 1912
Description: John Kaminski (the first licensed pilot in Wisconsin, third from the right in checkered cap) with his new Curtiss pusher, the "Sweetheart."
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Home-Built Heath

Date: 1932
Description: Ray and Carl Breecher's Heath parasol monoplane while still under construction in their father's garage. Despite extensive modification, the plane crashed ...
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Balloon Ascension

Date: 1908
Description: A balloon about to ascend in Minneapolis. John Schwister, who later built the Minnesota-Badger airplane, is in the front of the gondola, with his back to t...
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Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Hydroplane

Date: 10 19 1911
Description: Pilot Hugh Robinson and his Curtiss hydroplane at Prairie du Chien during a flight that was intended to be the first all the way down the Mississippi River...

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