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| Date: | 07 20 1933 |
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| Description: | Two men sawing up the 10th ward Christmas tree, a stately Wisconsin fir, which had been growing at the corner of Spooner and Monroe Street. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Two women and three men are posing in a yard. One man is holding a shotgun, another a carpenter's saw. The frame house behind them has a small front porch ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A couple with three children posing in a yard. The woman has a sewing machine, the man has a table saw and lathe. The two-story frame house has a glass pan... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family by wood fence with one child sitting on top of gate; wood house with upper window shutter closed and shutter trim around doorway; trellis by porch. ... |
| Date: | 08 09 1949 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm uses a chain saw to make a cut on one of the trees in front of the Wisconsin General hospital. The trees must be removed to make r... |
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| Description: | Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of Civilian Conservation Corps workers standing at a table saw. One man, probably a supervisor, wears a hat and tie. |
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| Description: | Men posed sawing timber using a steam-powered open-air saw. |
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| Description: | Men posed sawing timber using a steam-powered open-air saw. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men working outdoors using a hand saw to saw a piece of timber. In the background other people are working among stacks of timber. There is a large bui... |
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| Description: | "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ... |
| Date: | 05 1902 |
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| Description: | Henry Miller with his wife, three children, and sister-in-law, Lena Jaeger, chopping wood. Henry is sawing a log, while a woman is cutting wood with an axe... |
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| Description: | A man stands near an ice harvesting machine on a lake. A label on the machine reads: "Wisconsin." There is open water behind him, and in the far background... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a sawmill inside three-sided roofed shed, open to the front. Attached to a barn along the back wall. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Leonore Middleton sitting on wooden steps leading to the screened porch of a tar paper shack. There is an awning over the side window and a short brick chi... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | View from hill looking towards three men on the roof while building The Retreat. There is a tall ladder against a tree on the right. Archibald Lake is in ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of three men cutting and loading ice into a dump truck on Namakagon Lake. One man is guiding ice blocks through open water to a conv... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Detail from original. Original caption reads: "A couple with three children posing in a yard. The woman has a sewing machine, the man has a table saw and l... |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Handwritten on back: "3. Man at right is cutting off sap wood. R. Man at left is using a frow (knife) to split block into thinner sections." |
| Date: | 02 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men are sawing a log. Handwritten on back: "1. Sawing white oak log the required length." |
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