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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
| 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: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A father standing over a pan wearing an apron. He is cooking and smoking a cigar. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin... |
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| Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Three stone cutters (probably Italian) working on decorative details over the east entrance of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin (Wisconsin Histori... |
| Date: | 12 19 1936 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr... |
| Date: | 05 20 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the Linden blacksmith shop, showing forge and equipment. The introduction of motorized farm equipment and automobiles led to the virtual disappeara... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | On the left, Jakob Ottesen is holding a long-stemmed pipe, and behind him a ladder is leaning against a tree. At his feet, a large dog is stretched out. Th... |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Construction workers O.R. Williams, Fred Mappin, and Rober Garner at the site of the Mammoth Pool Dam on the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada Mountai... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of five men standing on a log and a plank of wood while another man is chopping at the log with an axe. |
| Date: | 06 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Edwin Morgan, at bench, and James Price, shirtless with cigarette in his mouth, are painting scenery for the Crater Players production of "The Drunkard". |
| Date: | 09 08 1948 |
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| Description: | The repair and conditioning committee of the West Side Business Men's Association that was in charge of preparing the auction site for the sale to benefit ... |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head.... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Sigvart Solbrg, (left) and Anton Follstad, (right) sawing a tree down during winter. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A cutting crew of three men posing in the woods with a work horse next to felled trees. |
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