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Vote Recording Machine

Date: 1919
Description: Inventor, B.L. Boboroff, displays his vote recording device to members of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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IHC Plano Works Baseball Team

Date: 1919
Description: Baseball players and bat boys for the International Harvester Plano Works baseball team. The team was part of the Harvester league.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Division Class

Date: 1919
Description: Men in a University of Wisconsin-Madison Extension Division class under Professor Consoliner. This appears to be an engineering class.
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Men Standing Posing on Flooded Rail Line

Date: 1919
Description: Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b...
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Chippewa Girls

Date: 1919
Description: A group of Chippewa (Ojibwa) girls in white western clothing and paper feathered headdresses for a celebration commemorating the return of 80 Native Americ...
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Owen Railroad Depot

Date: 1919
Description: The office of the Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Sault Ste. Marie Railroad. Left to right: Bert Spaulding, an Owen business man; mail clerk Frank Dick; L.H. Lu...
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Company House and Family in Benham

Date: 1919
Description: A family of five posing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham.
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Father and Young Sons on Farm

Date: 1919
Description: A father standing with his two young sons near a stationary engine. Many farm implements and equipment are lay in the yard.
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Wedding Party

Date: 1919
Description: The bride, groom, wedding party, and pastor(?) pose for the Stafford-Harold wedding portrait. The groom wears a military uniform from the World War I era.
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Children on Playground Slide

Date: 1919
Description: A group of children posing on and beneath a wooden playground slide. There is a barn in the background.
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Elsie Janis and Three of her Gang

Date: 1919
Description: Elsie Janis, in military uniform, stands arm-in-arm with three soldiers in a publicity photograph for the musical revue "Elsie Janis and Her Gang." They we...
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Schoolhouse in the Woods

Date: 1919
Description: Small schoolhouse with a bell tower on the roof over the entrance to the building. The schoolhouse is surrounded by trees. A class of students is pictured ...
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Lunch in the Woods North of Lake Europe

Date: 1919
Description: Three men enjoy a picnic; the man on the right smokes a cigar.
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Family Gathering at Rufus Gillett's

Date: 1919
Description: Outdoor group portrait of the extended Gillett family taken at the home of Sherwin's brother, Rufus.
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Sherwin and Emma Gillett with Children

Date: 1919
Description: Indoor family portrait of Sherwin and Emma Gillett and their three children; Harry (b. 1910), Lorin (b. 1915) and Sherry (b. 1913).
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Four Grinning Children

Date: 1919
Description: Four grinning children in the yard of a residence, identified only as the children of “Keith and Mabel”.
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Portrait at the Barbecue

Date: 1919
Description: Posed outdoor group portrait, with cooks, at a policemen's picnic or barbecue.
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Dr. Joseph Smith and Friends

Date: 1919
Description: Dr. Joseph Smith poses with friends next to a tree along a rivers edge.
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Posing in Sailor Uniforms

Date: 1919
Description: Outdoor portrait of Edgar Krueger, Jennie Krueger Bruetzman, and Ernst Bruetzman in sailor uniforms with cigarettes in their mouths. Edgar and Ernst are in...
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Sitting in Sailor Uniforms

Date: 1919
Description: Outdoor portrait of Jennie Krueger Bruetzman, Edgar Krueger, and Ernst Bruetzman sitting cross-legged on the lawn dressed in sailor uniforms. Jennie and Er...

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