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Skywriting Advertisement for Cigarettes

Date: 1923
Description: Advertisement for Lucky Strike cigarettes that shows the product name being written as a smoke trail above New York City. The campaign was devised for the...
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Group of Men Working at Machines

Date: 1923
Description: Workers at an International Harvester factory.
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North Avenue Dam

Date: 1923
Description: Elevated view of the Milwaukee River from the east bank at the North Avenue dam. Caption on negative reads: "Milwaukee River at North Ave".
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Chattanooga Plow Works

Date: 1923
Description: Three factory workers at the Chattanooga Plow Works.
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Motorized Water Pump

Date: 1923
Description: View of what appears to be a water pump powered by an International Harvester stationary engine on the farm of Albert Guenther.
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International Harvester Engine

Date: 1923
Description: A man uses an International Harvester engine to power a saw. The man is cutting lumber while a child watches from the background.
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Painters in Library Reading Room

Date: 1923
Description: Men in work clothes stand on scaffolding in the library reading room of the Wisconsin Historical Society. Desks below are covered with drop cloths. The rea...
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Rolling Aluminum

Date: 1923
Description: Men rolling aluminum by hand at the Mirro Aluminum Company.
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Ironton Hotel

Date: 1923
Description: The hotel is set in a grove of trees against a backdrop of rolling hills. There are two chimneys and a belvedere. There is a barn behind with a supply of f...
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Factory Worker at Work Table

Date: 1923
Description: A man is using tools on a table to work with a metal part, possibly for a cream separator.
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Factory Worker with Parts Display

Date: 1923
Description: A man is standing at a work table in a factory setting surrounded by metal gears and other parts, possibly for cream separators. A display board attached t...
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Woman at Wood Pile

Date: 1923
Description: A woman, possibly Anna Neary, gathering pieces of chopped wood in her arms as she kneels near a wood pile on the A.E. Bancroft farm.
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Woman Moving Wood Box

Date: 1923
Description: A woman moving a box full of firewood from the corner of the kitchen on the E.A. Bancroft farm. A woodstove is on the right.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 1923
Description: A woman using an axe to chop wood in a rural area. A pile of logs is in the background.
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Boys' Woodwork Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Group of boys at a woodworking session in the basement shop at Neighborhood House, with boys posing with various tools and planks of wood. In the far backg...
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Map of Lincoln County, Wisconsin

Date: 1923
Description: This blue line print map shows townships, landownership, roads, residences, churches, schools, town halls, saw mills, and cheese factories. Includes red ma...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Bituminous Coal on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River

Date: 1923
Description: This map shows major cities surrounding the Great Lakes. Portions of Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, New York, Vermont, Massachusetts,C...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Coal from Mines to Lower Lake Ports

Date: 1923
Description: This map shows the movement from coalfields in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Kentucky, and part of Virginia to Lake Erie. Quantities of coal are label...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Iron Ore From Lower Lake Ports to Furnaces

Date: 1923
Description: This map shows the movement of iron ore in areas of Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Lake Erie, Lake Ontario, and parts of Ontario, Maryland, and ...
Map or Atlas

Movement of Iron Ore From Ranges to Upper Lake Ports

Date: 1923
Description: This map shows the movement of iron ore in parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and includes parts of Lake Superior, Green B...

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