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McCormick Works Employees at Lunch

Date: 1905
Description: Factory workers eating lunch outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company before 19...
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Woman Sitting On Steps

Date: 1905
Description: Elderly woman in a long skirt sitting on the front steps of a house.
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Betsey Busied by Bossy's Butter

Date: 1905
Description: Woman churning butter.
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Baby Booties

Date: 1905
Description: Baby booties knitted of pink wool yarn.
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Bertha L. Retelsdorf, as a Cook

Date: 1905
Description: Bertha L. Retelsdorf, member of the Menomonie High School class of 1905, depicted as a cook . Part of a yearbook created by classmate Albert Hansen, based ...
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Alma and J. Robert Taylor

Date: 1905
Description: A studio portrait of Alma and J. Robert Taylor. Alma is sitting in a chair holding a sock to be darned, while putting her hand over J. Robert's mouth. He i...
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Exhibit of Adulterated Foods

Date: 1905
Description: Shelves lined with cans, bottles, jars, etc., showing adulterated foods (e.g. maple syrup that contains no maple sap) at a Farmers' Institute Event.
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Rabbit in Pitcher

Date: 1905
Description: A small rabbit is posed in a fancy ironstone pitcher. On the reverse is written, "son of Mrs. Egg Rabbit."
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Group with Deer in front of House

Date: 1905
Description: The family hunters and their deer in front of a house.
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Cooking on the New Stove

Date: 1905
Description: A woman is stirring a pot on what looks like a new stove. It is a gleaming Acme, from Newark Stove Works. There is a warming closet in the top half. The ca...
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Employees Dining at the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1905
Description: View of mostly male, and a few female employees, dining in the Dining Hall of the McCormick Works Club House. In the background is the stage. Numbered wood...
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Dining Room in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1905
Description: Interior view of dining room. Rows of tables are set with napkins in drinking glasses and mugs, and baskets of bread. Flags hang over the windows on the ri...
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Rabbit in Bowl

Date: 1905
Description: A rabbit, one of the Middleton family pets, resting in a large bowl on a table. There is an oil parlor lamp on a smaller table in the background. The back ...
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Tea Party

Date: 1905
Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of Eleanor Holt, wearing a bow in her hair, who is standing and pouring a cup of tea for her brother, Donald...

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