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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the members of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention and their families standing for a portrait at Mount Vernon. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Boy idling away time with a rifle under a tree on the grounds of a rural school. |
| Date: | 06 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Commonwealth Edison worker using a McCormick-Deering I-30 industrial tractor with a loader to scoop gravel off of a city street. The loader was manufacture... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production. |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 09 20 1923 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel loading a truck as part of road construction in front of Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. There is a horse-drawn wagon passing by. ... |
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| Description: | Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Andrew Dahl's wagon is on the side of a two-story log house in Blue Mounds. On one side of the wagon cover is "A.L. Dahl Landscape Photographer." On the ba... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | View, through a cornfield, of people, a store, a sawmill and wagons. Moscow was platted in 1850 by an Englishman, Chauncy Smith, who dammed the Bluemound ... |
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| Description: | A woman driving a two-wheeled carriage pulled by two white horses. |
| Date: | 1862 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a watercolor of a view of Camp Randall, from the northeast. Scene set on rolling hills, shows tents, buildings, horses and military members i... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of St. Clara's Orphanage, which was built in 1882 and run by the Felecian Sisters. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Land Economic Inventory mapping crew starting out in the snow for instruction. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Children posing on a conical burial mound at Merrill Springs, on the south shore of Lake Mendota. (Also known as Merrill's Spring.) |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Man moving earth in South Africa with an International TD-14A crawler tractor equipped with a Bucyrus-Erie bulldozer. A man with oxen and a "primitive" ex... |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | A work shift of German prisoners at a prisoner of war camp marching to trucks to be conveyed to work at a local cannery. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, later Wisconsin governor, United State senator, and a leading environmentalist of his era, on horseback at a ranch in Rosebud, Montana. |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Child overlooking a lake next to an unfinished building. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Everetta Bass (dressed in plaid), standing with two girls wearing capes and bonnets. The smallest of the girls is identified as Verta. There is a baby carr... |
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