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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Father and son at work cutting wood with McCormick Farmall H tractor running belt-driven circular saw on rural farm. Behind them is parked an International... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Two farmers cutting firewood with a belt-driven circular saw powered by a McCormick Farmall H tractor. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Robert Fischelis and George Griffenhagen assist in the groundbreaking for an addition to the American Pharmaceutical Association headquarters. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A couple waits at the checkout stand with a shopping cart and cans of Mautz paint and other supplies to purchase. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View towards two men cutting wood with a saw powered by a McCormick standard W-4 tractor. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground towards a man loading logs for firewood(?) onto an International truck during winter. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Partially erected trusses for the roof of the First Unitarian Society Meeting House designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Man working on a residential street with a Hough H-30 front loader. The machine was manufactured by the Frank G. Hough Company. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A sawmill run on the Menominee Indian Reservation. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View of stones in a quarry used by the Mormons in the settlement formerly known as Voree. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A view from a bluff on Tower HIll overlooking the Wisconsin River. A sign on the right reads: "Shot Shaft". |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View across river towards the tunnel leading to the bottom of the shot tower shaft at Tower Hill State Park. There is a rustic bridge on the right leading ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Hough HE Payloader loading snow into a truck. The HE was built by Frank G. Hough Company, a Libertyville, Illinois, manufacturer of construction equipment. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of town, showing a major industrial area. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the birthplace of the Republican Party, located on the Republican House grounds. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Ernest Albert Hilfiker (1905-1993) poses with copper kettles in the making room of the Tuscobia cheese factory. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of land operations of commercial fishing operation with fish net drying reels and buildings on Apostle Islands. |
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