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Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
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Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building. |
Date: | 06 1837 |
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Description: | Lithograph based on a painting by Mrs. E.E. Bailey showing the Peck cabin, the first house in Madison. In addition to the cabin, the lithograph includes a ... |
Date: | 1821 |
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Description: | Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver. |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a group of men standing knee deep in water using handspikes probably in an attempt to dislodge a lumber raft from a sandbar or from the shor... |
Date: | 1903 |
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Description: | Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C... |
Date: | 09 19 1892 |
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Description: | Captain Alexander McDougall's whaleback passenger steamer "Christopher Columbus" under construction in the shipyard of the American Steel Barge Company in ... |
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Description: | Men with shovels during the flood at Villa Louis. |
Date: | 1963 |
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Description: | Fire fighters use an International Model VCO-202 fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a train... |
Date: | 04 1923 |
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Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
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Description: | Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other. |
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Description: | Spearing sturgeon at the dam in Kilbourn. There is a man with a sturgeon on a spear in the foreground, and another man with a spear is in the background. A... |
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Description: | A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr... |
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Description: | Stereograph of a group of men on a raft. The man in the foreground is sitting and peeling potatoes. The young man splitting wood is Ashley Bennett, son of ... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of a group of men "witching up." |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of three raftsmen standing in the river, probably on a sandbar, using wooden poles to hold or push against the rafts. |
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Description: | Elevated view of Mirror Lake Mill with bridge in foreground. Two women are standing on the bridge looking down at the river. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Harold F. McCormick (with cup) and his children, left to right: Muriel, Harold, Jr. and Mathilde at the Walnut Grove farm in Rockbridge County. |
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