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Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
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Railroad Bridge under Construction

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Description: A Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railway bridge under construction.
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Erecting Pile Driver for Railroad Extension to Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon...
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Auburndale Camp

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Description: Elevated view of logging crew posed outside a log cabin in winter. Several horses are at the back of the group. The foreman, Mike Baltus, is possibly at fr...
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Construction Work on the New Free Bridge

Date: 1931
Description: View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S...
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Construction Work on the New Free Bridge

Date: 1931
Description: The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards...
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City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek

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Description: Three men posed standing on the porch of a small brick building with a tall smokestack, probably the City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek, surrounded b...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. In the background a man stands with an ox, and another man displays a team of two horses.
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Men Posed Around Logs

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Description: Group of men and children posed in front of large piles of snow-covered logs, ready to be dumped from landings into the river after the spring thaw.
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Men Posed on top of Stacked Logs

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Description: Group of men posed atop and among stacks of logs on landing.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group portrait of men posed standing, sitting and holding tools in a snow-covered logging camp in front of several teams of oxen and horses. One man holds ...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logging tools in snow-covered logging camp in front of log buildings.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools while standing in a line on the snow-covered ground in front of two log buildings.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and sitting on benches on the snow-covered ground in front of log buildings and several horse teams.
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Men Sitting on Pile of Logs

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Description: View over snow-covered ground or a frozen river of a group of men sitting on piles of logs. Behind them on the right is a log sorting pier. There are two b...
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View of Fayette

Date: 02 1925
Description: An unidentified man looks across Snail Shell Harbor at the remains of the Jackson Iron Company works. The large furnace complex is visible through the tree...
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Bridge and Car Track on the Ice to Solombola

Date: 1918
Description: Tramway and railroad leading into Solombola, Russia. In the foreground are a group of people, some sawing wood and others standing by the railroad.
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Ice Cutters

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Description: A large group of ice cutters posing for a portrait. They are holding a variety of implements and are sitting and standing on blocks of ice. Fence and build...
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Family and Their Log Home

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Description: Group portrait of a man, girl, and a woman holding a broom, standing in front of a log house, surrounded by snow-covered ground. There is another person st...
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Loggers at a Logging Camp

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Description: View across snow towards a group of loggers, including two women, one holding a child in her arms, at a logging camp in winter.

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