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Loggers Dining at Camp

Date: 1907
Description: Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw.
Photograph

Family Cleaning their Motorboat

Date: 04 21 1957
Description: An industrious family cleans their motorboat which is parked in the driveway.
Photograph

Dale Farm

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Description: A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption...
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Spring Cleaning

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Description: A woman dust mops the floor while listening to a radiophone that is perched on the window sill.
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Husking Corn

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Description: Families sit amid piles of corn and remove the husks in the Meskovesd district near Budapest, Hungary.
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Chief Oshkosh Remembrance

Date: 05 25 1926
Description: Menominee Indians eating lunch together on Chief Oshkosh Day, May 25, 1926, "the occasion of the removal of the chief's remains from an unmarked grave besi...
Photograph

Chippewa Mother

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Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) mother with two children, one of whom is in a cradleboard, at the Lac du Flambeau reservation. This image is part of an exhibit about N...
Photograph

Farm Couple

Date: 1920
Description: Farm couple seated together outdoors on the lawn, his arm around her shoulders.
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Twin Children

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Description: Twins wearing hats, jackets, and pants are sitting and standing near a wooden box with food displayed on it.
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Cyanotype of Chippewa Indians

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Description: Cyanotype print of Chippewa (Ojibwa) Indians near Bradley Junction, near Minocqua. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in the background.
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Smokey Bear Drinking from Bottle

Date: 1950
Description: Smokey Bear cub drinking from a bottle offered by a New Mexico Game Warden, possibly his handler, Homer C. Pickens.
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Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor

Date: 11 08 1900
Description: Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F...
Book or Pamphlet

35 - Man Feeding Angora Rabbits

Date: 1943
Description: Man feeding angora rabbits in their hutches. Text on page says, "Fütterung".
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Carson Gulley Christmas Card

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Description: Bea and Carson Gulley's Christmas card promoting their catering service. Text on the card reads: "A Blessed Christmas."
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Carson Gulley Preparing Chickens

Date: 11 25 1942
Description: Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef.
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Family Portrait

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Description: A family portrait on the front porch of their house. There are three females and three males.
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Group of People at Picnic

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Description: Men and women drinking tea around a picnic table at a park. The women are wearing fancy hats.
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Beaded Baby Bonnet

Date: 1856
Description: Knitted baby bonnet made with tan cotton yarn and decorated with glass beads.
Print

"Daydreams"

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Description: Woman in a dress and bonnet seated on a bench at a window with a book (The Bible?) open in front of her. There is a spinning wheel in the corner behind the...
Photograph

Feeding Milk to a Calf

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Description: A farming man and woman holding a horse and feeding milk to a baby cow.

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