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Prison Cook Preparing Food

Date: 03 26 1968
Description: Slightly elevated view of prison cooks preparing dinner for inmates.
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Cemetery for War Dead from Iwo Jima

Date: 03 1945
Description: The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart...
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Future Drafters

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: High school boys in an industrial drafting class using drafting machines and compasses.
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Raking Leaves

Date: 10 18 1984
Description: Young boy and girl make the autumn chore of leaf-raking fun.
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Baker and Bread

Date: 05 14 1964
Description: A baker removes multiple loaves of bread from the oven for consumption in both bakery and restaurant.
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Mowing the Lawn

Date: 05 28 1987
Description: A Parks Department employee pushes a mower up a steep hill to keep Buchner Park maintained.
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Corn and Brats on the Grill

Date: 06 25 1988
Description: St. Dominic's Catholic Parish members tend the grills at their annual festival.
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Fixing a Bicycle Wheel

Date: 06 16 1988
Description: One boy steadies a bike while his friend tightens the nut on the front wheel to complete a tire repair.
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Candy Maker

Date: 10 11 1981
Description: Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop.
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Filling Potholes

Date: 04 27 1987
Description: A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather.
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Ice Harvesting

Date: 1910
Description: Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River.
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Woman Making Spoon Bread

Date: 04 11 1969
Description: Mrs. Lloyd Knox demonstrating the technique of making spoon bread.
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Threshing

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Description: A threshing scene during harvest time. In the background, the separater tender stands on the thresher overseeing the whole operation. He has a weighing dev...
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A Farm Auction

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Description: An auctioneer, a clerk, and a helper stand on a stage on a farm conducting an auction as potential bidders surround them. Farming equipment and other items...
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Maple Sugaring

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Description: Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho...
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Cleaning Cow Barn

Date: 12 11 1983
Description: Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader.
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Chores

Date: 09 03 1965
Description: Dale Gross (1908-1980) in silhouette carrying two pails into a barn.
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Hacking a Path Through a Jungle

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Description: A soldier hacks a path through a jungle in Panama with a machete while smoking a cigarette.
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Skill and Safety Class

Date: 10 15 1966
Description: Instructor George Finco (right) teaches skill and safety to students Michael Edler (left) and Jeff Zinuticz in the Custer High School foundry.
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Automobile Club Members

Date: 10 10 1966
Description: Four auto club members work on a 1932 Ford Coupe. Rick Burkee (right, foreground) and Robin Friberg work on engine parts as Greg Beaster polishes the car h...

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