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Painting Mower Main Frames

Date: 1900
Description: Workers hand painting hundreds of McCormick mower main frames hanging in the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Mach...
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Molding Mower Wheels

Date: 1900
Description: Workers removing mower wheels from casts inside Foundry no. 1 at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine comp...
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Pinstriping Binders

Date: 1900
Description: Workers pinstriping hundreds of binder frames inside at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company befor...
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Mower Wheel Paint Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Workers handling mower wheels during painting process in the mower wheel paint shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick H...
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McCormick Reaper Works Wood Stock Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Workers loading and unloading wood at the wood stock yard of the McCormick Reaper Works. Men are working on both sides of the Chicago River. Rail cars and ...
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McCormick Works Shipping Dock

Date: 1900
Description: Dock workers preparing boxed farm machines for loading onto a ship at the McCormick Reaper Works dock. The boxes contain McCormick Daisy reapers, New 4 mow...
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Rake Wheels on McCormick Works Shipping Platform

Date: 1900
Description: Two workers among hundreds of hay rake wheels stacked on a shipping platform next to rail cars at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the ...
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Train Wreck

Date: 1900
Description: Derailed locomotive and coal car. Wreck on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha Railway, locomotive #287, in the vicinity of Black River Falls.
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Studio Shenanigans

Date: 1900
Description: Four men use a ladder to pose on top of each other. There is a painted backdrop behind them. They are wearing suit jackets, vests with watch fobs, and trou...
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Metal Finishing Room at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Workers in the metal finishing room at the McCormick Reaper Works. In 1902 the factory became part of the International Harvester Company.
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Alfred C. Clas

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of Alfred C. Clas (1859-1942), Milwaukee architect whose firm designed the Wisconsin Historical Society Headquarters building. The architectural f...
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William F. Vilas

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of William Freeman Vilas, attorney, Regent of the University of Wisconsin, member of the State Assembly of Wisconsin 1885, U.S. Senator fro...
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Governor Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. when he became governor of Wisconsin. This original of this item is a postcard that was probably used for campaign p...
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African American Tenant Farmers Picking Cotton

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand.
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Turn-of-the-Century Bicyclists

Date: 1900
Description: Sidney Catle, on bike, stands with his sister Sarah to his right, Harvey Richards, and twin sisters.
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McCormick Reaper Works Factory and Rail Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood.
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Farmers' Market

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of the farmers' market at the base of the water tower (not in view) in front of the Washington Building. There is a Wisconsin State Journal s...
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Capitol Park Afternoon

Date: 1900
Description: An idyllic afternoon in the Capitol Park, showing groups of men and women seated on benches and conversing. The reproduction Centennial fountain is almost ...
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Madison's Old Central Fire Station & Police Station

Date: 1900
Description: Madison's old Central Fire Station (1881-1904), 10 South Webster Street, with Police Station on the left. Probably photographed at the turn of the century ...
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John MacKenzie and Portage Jail

Date: 1900
Description: Sheriff John MacKenzie poses in front of the Portage jail with his staff.

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