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| Date: | 02 14 1958 |
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| Description: | Elmer J. Schmidt makes furniture and toys in his woodshop even though he has only one arm to work with. |
| Date: | 06 14 1927 |
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| Description: | Loading barrels into a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad car behind the Hess Barrel Company (cooperage) at about 1950 Atwood Avenue. Stacks of oak barrel h... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory worker cutting spokes for wagon wheels at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. Other men are working in the background. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory worker manufacturing wagon wheel hubs at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A factory worker with a wagon wheel at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. |
| Date: | 04 24 1951 |
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| Description: | An unidentified man sits at a jig saw making a bird house while receiving instruction in woodworking as a participant in the Madison Vocational School home... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Eight men working on various woodworking projects in a classroom setting at Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa Indian whittles strips of wood for the sides of a canoe under construction. In the background is a wigwam (or wetu). |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa Indian man is splitting cedar wood to make ribs for the canoe he's constructing. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man splits a cedar trunk with a wooden tool. The cedar is to be used to build the framework for a canoe. A woman is seated nearby. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man and woman prepare to transport rolled bark back to their home to use in the construction of a canoe. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man sits on the ground tying cedar materials with wigub as a woman looks on. The cedar will be used in the construction of a canoe. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man kneels on the ground to roll up cedar bark that will be used in the construction of a canoe. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man and woman peel bark from a tree to use in the construction of a canoe. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man and woman split and peel bark from a tree for use in the construction of a canoe. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man and woman slit the bark on a tree as they prepare to peel it off for use in the construction of a canoe. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man prepares to fell a tree to use in the construction of a canoe. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man pulls up jack pine roots to sew bark on a canoe that he's making. |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa man and woman shape bark during construction of a canoe. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | An Ojibwa woman is binding bark to the frame of a canoe during construction. An Ojibwa man is looking on. |
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