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McCormick Harvesting Machinery Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements featuring two men paddling a canoe in rough water. Also includes color illustrations of a reaper, ha...
Photograph

Vilas Flying Boat

Date: 1915
Description: Jack Vilas (seated) in the Curtiss hydroplane he used to spot forest fires for the Wisconsin Conservation Department. (His companion is not identified.) Th...
Photograph

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...
Photograph

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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Man Running Machinery

Date: 1915
Description: A worker standing at the controls of a generator, most likely in the temporary power house at the Prairie du Sac dam site. The steam driven generator produ...
Photograph

Alma Reinhardt Taylor

Date: 1915
Description: Several people next to a building in a wooded area. Four people are pushing a large wooden bar on a piece of equipment with a rope. Perhaps they are pullin...
Photograph

Unloading Iron Ore

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of an iron ore ship unloading. Several workers are on board the ship. Caption reads: "Unloading Iron Ore At Sparrows Point, MD."
Photograph

Ships at Ore Docks

Date: 1915
Description: View of several ships at the ore docks of Maryland Steel Company. Text on the ship on the left may read "Craigeab" (text is difficult to make out). The nam...
Photograph

Hotz Family

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses with his wife Clothilde (with glasses), son Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) and one of his daughters on Champagne Rock on Cottage Row.
Postcard

Curtiss Flying Boat at Trout Lake

Date: 1915
Description: View from shoreline of Trout Lake of a group of six men posed with the pilot, possibly Jack Vilas, on an early seaplane or flying boat floating in the wate...
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Jack Vilas & Weaver

Date: 1915
Description: Caption reads: "Jack Vilas & Weaver." View along front of seaplane, with two men sitting inside. Both men have goggles. Water is in the background.

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