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Log Drive

Date: 1913
Description: Two businessmen visiting a log drive along the Wisconsin River. They stand atop a log holding peavey hooks.
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Milwaukee Merchants Group

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Description: Group of men and one woman posing on rocks.
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Model Airplane Builder

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Description: Tony Italiano of Waukesha, founder of the Supreme Model Supply Co., with a large model airplane.
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Alexander Legge

Date: 09 20 1923
Description: Alexander Legge (1866-1933) with a pitchfork full of hay at a Thresher demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm. Men are milling around a t...
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Linden Hill Grocery Store

Date: 06 19 1938
Description: Linden Hill Grocery Store, 36 South Fair Oaks Avenue. Anton "Tony" Lazarz and his wife Bernice, owners of the store, are sitting on the curb in the foregro...
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McKay Nursery

Date: 05 12 1937
Description: William G. McKay standing beside nursery stock inside the McKay Nursery warehouse.
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Grand Prize Auto

Date: 05 27 1934
Description: Ray Perkins, President of The Wisconsin Engraving Company, standing beside his new Oldsmobile sedan which he won at the Zor Shrine Temple's Past Potentate ...
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W.L.L. & T. Logging Operations

Date: 02 1914
Description: Two men dressed in business attire stand in the snow in front of logs cut as part of W.L.L. & T. logging operations.
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Golfer Kenneth W. Grafton

Date: 07 20 1944
Description: Kenneth W. Grafton, member of the firm Reitan-Lerdahl and Company, and secretary of the Nakoma Golf Club, swinging a golf club.
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Clarence L. Dauberman Farm

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c...
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Earl C. Smith Giving a Speech

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: Earl C. Smith, president of the Illinois Agricultural Association, speaks into a microphone at an event to honor Mr. Clarence Dauberman for creating the fi...
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Logging with an International T-20 Crawler Tractor

Date: 1938
Description: Man using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in a logging operation. Original caption reads: "F.J. Jacks of Tunica, Mississippi is known a...
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Madison Soap Box Derby Champion

Date: 07 24 1949
Description: Soap Box Derby winners from a record entry of seventy-six boys. Left to right: Runner-up Dickie Lindauer; Pierre Slightam, winner, with Ralph Hult, preside...
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Geese Hunters

Date: 10 24 1951
Description: Albert Becker and Carl Van Skike, hunting partners for 32 years, posing in hunting clothes with shot guns while holding three geese they bagged while hunti...
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Crowd in Downtown Street

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Description: Dallas businessmen displaying their cattle in a downtown street surrounded by spectators, horse-drawn vehicles, and commercial buildings.
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Madison Soap Box Derby Organizers

Date: 07 18 1952
Description: The thirteen-member behind-the-scenes crew who make the Madison Soap Box Derby possible gathered on the steps of Law Park prior to making final arrangement...
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J.J. Hof Land Co.

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Description: Six men in suits and hats, probably employees of J.J. Hof Land Co., in front of the company office building.
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Gotham Depot

Date: 1920
Description: Three men stand, in three-piece suits and hats, in front of the Gotham train depot.
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Schlitz Park Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Schlitz Park Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with halftone views of the park gateway and a two-story open-air pavilion with an overlook,...
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Henry Ford on Tractor

Date: 1908
Description: Henry Ford sitting on the 1908 model Fordson tractor. The tractor is attached to a plow, with another man sitting in the seat of the plow.

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