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| Date: | 08 02 1862 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of several men in a long trench digging Grant's canal on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee River near the Milwaukee settlement. People are depicted doing work in boats along the shore. Original is a pen and ink drawing, presumably made ... |
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| Description: | Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working... |
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| Description: | A man is sweeping the bunk house at Hatton Lumber Company Camp. Caption reads: "Hatton Lbr. Co. Camp No 3." |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The state seal of Wisconsin appears in the upper left corner. To the right reads: "Head Quarters 18th Reg. Wis. Vol, Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee" On t... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of four men working with pick-axes and sledge hammers. |
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| Description: | Two images of ferries as printed on a postcard. The top image is the ferry "Colsac" on the Wisconsin River. The bottom image is simply described as an earl... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Cream City Sash & Door Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Manufacturers of Glazed Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings & Interior Work," with fo... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of M.H. Wheeler, a lumberman from Florence, Wisconsin, with a man standing on a load of logs, holding the reins for two horses harnessed to the ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Tobin Exploring, Mining & Manufacturing Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, with a scene of men with picks, shovels, and other tools working i... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Cohn & Robertson Granite Manufacturing Company of Granite Heights and Wausau, Wisconsin, with a view of workers loading a C.M.&St.P. rail... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the West Side Fuel Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with cartoon-style drawings, printed in black ink, of workers mining coal with a pi... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Illustration of a man using a horse and handheld plow to work in a farm field. The illustration is crossed out in red and captioned with the text: "Old Fas... |
| Date: | 1825 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Front cover featuring illustrations of wheeled scrapers, drag scrapers, railroad plows and road graders. |
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| Description: | An illustration of miners at the bottom of a mine filling a bucket to be lifted to the surface. One man is calling upwards. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of War Information poster, with an illustration of a woman wearing a protective headwrap operating a machine. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Cover of the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy by Morris Friedman. The book was a work of non-fiction detailing the use of spies during labor disputes b... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring women glass blowers working in a factory with large tongs. Two men are standing by the window in the background, one dressed i... |
| Date: | 05 26 1866 |
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| Description: | Page one of "The Workingman's Advocate." The front page of the newspaper includes an illustration that advertises "Artificial Legs and Arms" for wounded Ci... |
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