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Women in front of House

Date: 1878
Description: Four women are posing in a yard among trees, and one woman is sitting on the porch of the house. A dog is sitting in a chair in the yard near one of the wo...
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Residential Street Maintenance

Date: 1920
Description: Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground.
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Loading Hard Coal

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Description: Two horses hitched up to a Milwaukee Western Fuel Company cart stopped at a station, with a man standing on the wagon filling the cart with hard coal for h...
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Men on Manure Spreader

Date: 1916
Description: Two men with shovels on a horse-drawn manure spreader.
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The Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage Railroad - Anaglyph

Date: 1875
Description: Winter scene with three men and a dog on railroad tracks, also a man in the far background. Two of the men are up on the snowbanks with shovels. "The Grand...
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Looking West from Barber Shop

Date: 1913
Description: View down Main Street of businesses along the right side. A young boy stands with a shovel near a pile of gravel near the barbershop, which has a barber's ...
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Workmen at Mechta

Date: 1927
Description: Workmen excavate at an archaeological site at Mechta. M. Bebruge is the man in the foreground. A man sitting on the ground in the background on the right i...
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View of Barn and Family

Date: 1916
Description: Barn and silo, with horses and farm wagon, and three children in pony buggy. Three men stand near the horse-drawn wagon on the left. The two horses are wea...
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Workers on Railroad Platform

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Description: Exterior view of work men posing sitting on a wagon on the platform at the railroad station.
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Man with Rifle and Dog

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man holding a rifle standing next to a dog. Behind them is a campsite with a table and tent.
Print

Empire Mower and Reaper

Date: 1893
Description: Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “...
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Sid Posing with Elephant

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Description: View down sidewalk towards Sid, wearing a white coat, white hat, and boots, standing beside an elephant while holding a shovel in his right hand with his r...
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Sid Posing with Elephant Sitting on Bench

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Description: View across sidewalk towards Sid standing and holding a shovel while posing next to an elephant sitting on a bench outdoors. Sid is wearing a white coat, w...
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Sid Posing with Elephant

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Description: View down sidewalk towards Sid, wearing a white coat, white hat, and boots, standing beside an elephant while holding a shovel in his right hand with his r...
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Clearing Land

Date: 1920
Description: Four Native American men posing while clearing land for farming. One man is standing atop a stump which has been pulled from the ground. Another man is hol...
Drawing

Man Holding Shovel Behind Elephant

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Description: A man dressed in overalls is holding a spade behind a sweating elephant, waiting for the elephant to defecate. A caption below, very faint, reads: "Let's W...
Print

"Wishing You 9 Lives" Birthday Card

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Description: Four-fold, copy art birthday card with a photograph of a cat on the front cover, with the caption: "Wishing You 9 Lives." Inside spread of a photograph of ...
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Man Loading Manure Spreader

Date: 07 20 1927
Description: Man standing in horse-drawn wagon loading a horse-drawn manure spreader. There is a silo and barn in the background.
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Men Carrying Supplies for Repairing Bad Roads in Enemy Territory

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers and civilians carrying supplies for repairing bad roads in enemy territory during World War I.
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Construction Site

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Description: Construction site showing men excavating the foundation and basement of a building. Teams of horses are hitched to wagons. The men are using various implem...

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