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Pouring Kerosene on Stove Fire

Date: 08 1927
Description: A woman pretends to pour kerosene on a hot stove as part of an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department campaign to make families aware of...
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Brillion News Print Shop

Date: 1901
Description: Interior view of the Brillion News Print Shop, where a printer and his assistants, two women, are posing around a press and work tables.
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Man Reading in Living Room

Date: 1912
Description: Otto G. Ansorge sits in his home on Lake Avenue and reads. Ansorge was a jeweler and band director in Winneconne.
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Brodhead Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Brodhead Public Library. The back of the cardboard mounting reads: "Free Public Library, Brodhead, Wis." There is a stove in the cente...
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Unidentified Rural Schoolhouse

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Description: View from front of room of teacher and students in classroom of one room schoolhouse. There is a large stove on the right, and the teacher stands behind th...
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Students Sitting at Desks

Date: 1919
Description: View from front of a classroom of students sitting at their desks in the Sedan Prairie School. A large round woodstove is in the back right corner of the r...
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Students Preparing Lunch in Classroom

Date: 1919
Description: Students sit at desks inside Sedan Prairie School while others stand in the back of the classroom to prepare lunch. The poster hanging on the back wall rea...
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Women at IHC Agriculture Extension Lecture

Date: 1917
Description: Group of women, and a few children, seated in a meeting hall at an Agricultural Extension lecture on Home Economics. A woman at the front of the hall is po...
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People in the Parlor

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Description: Four well-dressed people relax in a parlor. They are reading, sewing and playing the piano.
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Man Reading Near Stove

Date: 06 1927
Description: A man is sitting in a wooden chair while reading and resting his foot against a woodstove. The photograph was staged at International Harvester's Hinsdale ...
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Eagle Corners School

Date: 1933
Description: Interior view of Eagle Corners School, a one-room schoolhouse in Richland County. The students are all seated at desks and most are reading. Their coats ha...
Print

August Kroll Letterhead

Date: 1888
Description: Letterhead of August Kroll of Leopolis, Wisconsin, dealer in hardware, stoves, and tinware, with an image of the interior of a store and customers being he...
Postcard

The Telephone Exchange

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Description: Color postcard of a female telephone operator at an 1890s era switchboard.
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Library at Lind's Shop

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Description: Interior view one of of Hillsboro's early libraries. The library was located in the back of Addie Lind's millinery shop where it connected to an adjoining ...
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Home Economics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Home economics students (all women) dressed in aprons, dresses, and hats, stand in rows at counters tending pots at the Winnebago County School of Agricult...
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Indoor Group Portrait of European American Family

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Description: Indoor group portrait of an unidentified family group. There is a woman posing sitting in a chair between two men posing standing on either side of her. On...
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Man and Infant

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Description: Portrait of a man posing sitting and holding an infant next to a woodstove. Next to the stove is a large portrait of a man on an easel.
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Seated Man

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Description: Interior portrait of a man sitting in a chair with a blanket over his lap, next to a draped table. There is a closed door behind him.
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Telephone Exchange in Laona

Date: 1920
Description: "This picture is of the first telephone exchange that I established in Laona. The girl standing is my youngest daughter. This exchange is still operated in...
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Family Gathered Around a Christmas Tree

Date: 1903
Description: A family, two parents and five children, gathered around a decorated Christmas Tree with gifts underneath.

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