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Gem Cutter

Date: 1950
Description: Arthur Virthaler, professor of art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, in the studio with materials and tools for making jewelry. He was known for sim...
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Feeding young Fawn

Date: 1950
Description: A fawn suckles a meal from a bottle held by a young girl inside the cage.
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Girls Pray

Date: 1950
Description: Two little girls kneel before an altar that is holding statues and a creche.
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Visiting a Lead Mine

Date: 1950
Description: Students from Platteville, Wisconsin tour a mine to see how lead is extracted.
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Clothing Enhancement

Date: 1950
Description: A girl draws a design on a blouse worn by a mannequin while a woman observes her progress.
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Tinsel Trees

Date: 1950
Description: A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays.
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Easter Reenactment

Date: 1950
Description: As part of an Easter tableau, a statue of Mary Magdalene at the entrance to what is a depiction of Jesus' tomb, is mirrored by a young girl in similar garb...
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Precise Cuts

Date: 1950
Description: A jigsaw in the hands of Harry Westphal makes smooth curves on the end of a piece of wood.
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Practical Joke

Date: 1950
Description: Mounted on a ladder, a man is poised to empty a bucket onto the open umbrella of a man sitting on a sidewalk bench.
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Lab Work

Date: 1950
Description: Holding a dropper over racks of test tubes, a man in a lab coat aims to place drops in the receptacles.
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Precison Cutting

Date: 1950
Description: Two men operate a machine that uses wires to make equal portions out of a large slab of butter.
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McCormick Farmall H Tractor with Manure Spreader

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man pulling a McCormick No. 200 manure spreader with a McCormick Farmall H tractor. Photograph was taken at or near the compan...
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McCormick Farmall Tractor H with a 14-P Pull-Type Corn Picker

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man picking corn with a McCormick Farmall H tractor, a McCormick 14-P pull-type corn picker and a wagon. The photograph was tak...
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McCormick Farmall H tractor with McCormick Plow

Date: 1950
Description: Man plowing a field with a McCormick Farmall H tractor and McCormick plow, at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale, Illinois.
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McCormick Farmall Tractor H and Grain Drill

Date: 1950
Description: Farmers are unloading bags of seed from the back of an International L-series pickup truck in a field. A McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached grain dr...
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McCormick Farmall H Tractor and Plow

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached plow, either at or near the company's experimental farm in Hinsdale.
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McCormick Farmall H Tractor with Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall H tractor with a mounted cultivator. A barn with "Hinsdale Farms" painted on the f...
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McCormick Farmall C Tractor with Fronted-Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick C Tractor with a front-mounted cultivator. The color photograph was taken either at or near the company...
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McCormick Farmall C Tractor with Front-Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with front-mounted cultivator against a bright blue sky strewn with fluffy white clou...
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McCormick Farmall C Tractor with Front-Mounted Cultivator

Date: 1950
Description: View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with front-mounted cultivator. The color photograph was taken either at or near the c...

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