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Outdoor Country Feast

Date: 1915
Description: View down long table set up outdoors for a feast. Men are standing on both sides, and a young girl is standing between two men on the right.
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Milwaukee Works Shop School Baseball Team

Date: 1915
Description: Group portrait of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works shop school baseball team.
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Lunch Break

Date: 1915
Description: Field workers take a lunch break outdoors. The man holding the food is Frank Haack and the woman taking a bite is his sister-in-law, Anna Bollenbeck.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Freight Depot

Date: 1915
Description: The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway freight depot, 40 North Frances Street. Men posing in front of the depot from left to right are: William Dunn...
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Sand Island Lighthouse

Date: 1915
Description: Sand Island Lighthouse on Apostle Island, Lake Superior. Lighthouse keeper and family are posing in the front of the building.
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Construction Workers at Dam Construction Site

Date: 1915
Description: Workers posing in a doorway at the Prairie du Sac dam construction site. Two men appear to be working on a gas lamp, while others are holding spools of wir...
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Construction Workers at Dam Construction Site

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like...
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McCarthy Grade School Group Portrait

Date: 1915
Description: Class group portrait of Joseph R. McCarthy's grade school classmates. McCarthy is in the center of the group. McCarthy dropped out of school at age 14.
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Men, Women and Children Playing in Lake

Date: 1915
Description: Group portrait of a small group of men, women, and children standing waist-deep in the water.
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Steinbacher's Saloon

Date: 1915
Description: Exterior view of the bar owned by Rudolph Steinbacher at the corner of 16th Street and St. Paul Avenue. A large sign for Schlitz beer is painted on the wa...
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Crew with Husker and Shredder

Date: 1915
Description: Six men are standing by a husker-shredder, wagon, and two horses in a farm yard. A tractor, possibly a Mogul 8-16 is on the right. Barns and farm buildings...
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Children Under Canoe

Date: 1915
Description: Four children lay on their stomachs and pose underneath a canoe, which is overturned on the ground. They are near Delavan Lake.
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Group of People in International Auto-Wagon

Date: 1915
Description: Several men and a young girl in an International Auto-Wagon on a dirt road. One or more of the men may have worked for an International dealership. The car...
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Ho-Chunk Group in front of Werner Drugstore

Date: 1915
Description: A group of Ho-Chunk gathering in front of Werner Drugstore on Main Street. The signpost on the right side indicates that English was not the first language...
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Ho-Chunk Girls and Boy on Water Street

Date: 1915
Description: Two Ho-Chunk girls wrapped in Racine Woolen Mills shawls walking with a young boy down Water Street downtown. The Journal sign is visible behind them, and ...
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Grant County Contest Winners

Date: 1915
Description: Unidentified group of spelling and arithmetic contest winners posing on a lawn outside of a brick building. The children are wearing ribbons on their lapel...
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Milwaukee Streetcar Conductors

Date: 1915
Description: Milwaukee streetcar conductors posed in front of streetcars. Edwin Salber shown second row fifth person from the left.
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Roaring River

Date: 1915
Description: Five men in suits pose near the Roaring River in a canyon.
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International Trucks with Flags

Date: 1915
Description: Large group of men and children posing in International trucks parked in a row on the side of a road. An American flag is held by one of the men in every t...
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Rapid Transit Car

Date: 1915
Description: A group of men and a boy pose near the rapid transit car labeled, "Aileen" and "Hotel." Caption reads: "Rapid Transit Car, Washington, GA."

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