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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird wing-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing on the partially demolished dome of the third Wisconsin State Capitol, together with the hoist used for removing salvaged materials. This d... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Men in bateaux for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log drive on the Chippewa River at Jim Falls. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Men and women at work in the office of an International Harvester branch house(?). Advertising posters for Columbus wagons, Bluebell cream separators and I... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the demolition of the dome of the Third Capitol, one of the few known photographs that permits such close observation of the architectural deta... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A circus clown sits astride a donkey outside a tent. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in a two-wheeled buggy hooked up to zebras, next to a fence near the Ring Barn on the left (which is still standing), with several male spectat... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Central Baseball Club, probably at Fond du Lac. Left to right the players are: Heinie Unferth, machinist's helper; A. Neuberger, boilermaker;... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A man drives a 1909 International Auto Wagon belonging to the Amikeco Laundry at 1601 Fullerton Avenue in Chicago. The truck has an enclosed body and crude... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Bas-relief sculpture honoring August Robert Meyer, a civil engineer and city developer seen from across the street. Created by David Chester French and de... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and overalls standing in an orchard with a Holstein calf eating from a bucket to his right, and a dog to his left. Another calf is stan... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man demonstrates his unsuccessful bird-like mechanism, which was part of an experiment in aviation. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A crane lowers the flag pole from the third Wisconsin State Capitol as the first step in demolition of the dome. An iron eagle is perched atop the flag pol... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men standing by the wheel of a wooden horse-drawn wagon while another man is standing behind wooden bars on the wagon bed. A barn, additional buildings... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of men in suits and farm laborers in a field next to a grain binder ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Postcard distributed by International Harvester Company featuring a color illustration of a man operating a self-rake reaper pulled by a horse in a field i... |
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