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Excavation for New York City Subway

Date: 1925
Description: View looking down at workers at work below street level, with cranes and International trucks excavating area for the future New York City subway. On the r...
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Filming a "Home Economics" Scene

Date: 1925
Description: Mr. Hyde and Miss Wigent filming a woman and child while the woman is filling pails with water from a hand-pump. The original caption reads: "Taking footag...
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Cheese House

Date: 1925
Description: The rear facade of a cheese house. A man is standing in the doorway of the loading dock next to a hand cart.
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Liberty Mills

Date: 1925
Description: Caption reads: "'Liberty Mills' Wisconsin Milling Co. Menomonie, Wis." There is a flag on roof, and snow is on the ground.
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Warehouse

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior of warehouse, said to be the remains of a five story grain elevator.
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Northwest Fur Co.

Date: 1925
Description: This building was supposedly once used as a storage house for the Northwest Fur Co.
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Brisbois Fur Trading Post

Date: 1925
Description: Former building of the Astor Company, also known as the Brisbois Fur Trading Post. At the time this image was made, the structure was occupied by Ben Schau...
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Brisbois Fur Trading Post

Date: 1925
Description: Former building of the Astor Company, also known as the Brisbois Fur Trading Post. The American Fur Company, which had been organized by John Jacob Astor i...
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Men's Dormitories

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of dormitories under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Men are working in different areas on the site. Lake Mendota...
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Men's Dormitory Construction

Date: 1925
Description: Elevated view of dormitories under construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The Lake Mendota shoreline is in the background.
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Burlap Train Entering Warehouse

Date: 1925
Description: A man rides on the back of a train of carts loaded with burlap sacks as it enters the Chase Bag Company warehouse from the steamship dock.
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Layton House

Date: 1925
Description: A front view of the Layton House, which was originally an inn. Signs on the building indicate that at the time of the photograph it was the business of Car...
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Charles Brown at Pump

Date: 1925
Description: Charles E. Brown stands beside a chain and crank operated water pump. Brown was the curator of the museum of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin and ...
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Outdoor Exhibit

Date: 1925
Description: An outdoor exhibit, possibly at Tower Hill State Park, with a display featuring a "pig of lead" found near the shot tower there. There is also a bronze pla...
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Flatrock Pool

Date: 1925
Description: Three men load a shell with nitro-glycerine in preparation of shooting an oil well at Flatrock Pool, between the cities of Tulsa and Skiatook. Caption read...
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Flatrock Pool

Date: 1925
Description: Three men load a shell with nitro-glycerine in preparation of shooting an oil well at Flatrock Pool, between the cities of Tulsa and Skiatook. Caption read...
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Chicken Slaughtering

Date: 1925
Description: A man wearing a hat and suspenders is using an axe to slaughter a chicken, using a log as a base. A large pile of firewood is behind him.
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Depot and Yards

Date: 1925
Description: View down railroad tracks of a locomotive pulling into a railroad depot and yards. The depot is a two-story building. Two wagons are parked near the depot ...
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Young Girl Cooling Canned Corn

Date: 1925
Description: Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn.
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Condensery

Date: 1925
Description: View across railroad tracks of a condensery building. The building features two-stories, a crow-stepping roof, and a tall chimney exhausting smoke. A railr...

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