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Peterson Family at Home

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam...
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Zinc Mining

Date: 1915
Description: Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin.
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Two Men Talking at Tractor Exhibit

Date: 1915
Description: Two men standing near a display tent at a tractor exhibition. One man appears to be talking animatedly while the other listens.
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Studio Portrait of Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
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Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
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Ho-Chunk Family During Winter

Date: 1915
Description: Using a portable, 4 x 5 glass plate negative camera, Van Schaick photographed Ho-Chunk on the streets of Black River Falls. These occasional pictures offer...
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Tractor Powered Silo Filler

Date: 1915
Description: Two men wearing long overcoats and hats are standing directly behind a large tractor or stationary engine being used to power a belt-driven ensilage cutter...
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Automobile Near Water

Date: 1915
Description: Three men in an automobile near what may be a flooded area, or possibly an overflowed pond or river. Barren trees stand in the pool's water.
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Testing a Corn Shocker

Date: 1915
Description: Two men using a team of two horses to pull a corn shocker through a farm field. Both men are wearing hats, and one of the men is wearing a long overcoat an...
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Men Driving near Bayou

Date: 1915
Description: Three men driving in an automobile past a pond or bayou. There appear to be two small boats on the shoreline, and trees are rising out of the water in the ...
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Studio Portrait of Men With Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio portrait of three men smoking pipes and cigars and holding beer bottles in front of a painted backdrop. From left to right, Jacob Bowar, Herman Kals...
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Young Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1915
Description: Studio triple portrait in front of a painted backdrop: young men with hats askew, drinking beer and smoking.
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Pontoons to Cross the Save River

Date: 1915
Description: Three Austrian soldiers are sitting and standing around wagons loaded with pontoons that will be used to bridge the Save (Sava) River during World War I be...
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Austrian Soldiers at Rest

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers smoking in front of military equipment hanging from a fence.
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Soldiers Waiting at the Train Station in Ruma

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian soldiers are standing around at the train station in Ruma, Syrmien. A man is standing in the center with a sheep, presumably about to be slaughter...
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Kurtis Froedtert

Date: 1915
Description: View of a man sitting behind a desk in a richly decorated office. He is holding a pipe and a Froedtert Service market report. Kurtis Froedtert was head of ...
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Soldiers Awaiting Orders to Fire Artillery

Date: 1915
Description: Austrian artillerymen taking a break from the battle at a firing position on the southwestern battlefront in Tyrol. Some of the men are smoking. The troops...
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Turkish Troops at Rest

Date: 1915
Description: Troops resting in front of an inn in the Taurus Mountains.
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John Merker and His Grandmother

Date: 1915
Description: John Merker (1900-1961), dressed in straw hat, bib overalls and a work shirt, is holding a pipe in his left hand. He is wearing a fake beard. His grandmoth...
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Herbert Brumder at His Desk

Date: 1915
Description: Herbert Paul Brumder sitting and reading in an upholstered chair in front of a desk. He is smoking a pipe and there is a small smoking stand to the right o...

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