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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Two men, two women are posing in front of a frame house that has a chair, sofa, table and a small white statue on its front porch. There are three doors an... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual... |
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| Description: | A man poses while selling chickens on the street. A building with an exterior brick chimney is behind him. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | The U.S. Hotel was constructed in 1852 by Hugh Phillips to be used for mercantile purposes, but later transformed into the hotel. A group of people are sta... |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View towards the mill on the Yahara River at the outlet of Lake Mendota. The mill was built in 1850 by Governor Farwell. A man is standing on the bridge wi... |
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| Description: | Man standing near Purple Martin birdhouse on a tall post, near a border of flowering bushes. There are houses in the background. |
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| Description: | Bissell Lumber Company. Workers are posing outdoors in front of a building. Cut trees can be seen in the background. A horse-drawn vehicle is on the right... |
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| Description: | Store includes a Post Office, owned by Cyrus Yawkey. Men, child, and two dogs are on the porch. |
| Date: | 05 18 1911 |
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| Description: | A man uses a horse-drawn wagon to transport building materials on a construction site at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Men are clearin... |
| Date: | 03 15 1911 |
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| Description: | Over 15 manure spreaders near railroad cars in small town. They may have been recently transported from Chicago via the Chicago and Northwestern railroad c... |
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| Description: | View of man and two boys standing in front of an adobe building. In the background, two girls are playing in the building's entrance while a dog walks by t... |
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| Description: | On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horse-drawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to pre... |
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| Description: | Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho... |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of a street corner. Commercial buildings are along the street on the left, including D.W. Corning Groceries. A large group of people are on ... |
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| Description: | View down North Washington Street, a residential area. Two girls are running on the terrace toward a man sitting in a horse-drawn carriage. |
| Date: | 10 24 1954 |
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| Description: | Nellie Arms, aunt of Lewis Arms, holds a cat outdoors at the farm she shared with her husband Bernard. |
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