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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of Ashley Bennett ("Cookie") who volunteered his services during the float, and the cook Mike Lane, on the Arpin fleet of lumber rafts. |
| Date: | 07 28 1953 |
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| Description: | William and Audrey Hobbins cooking a hot dog on the grill at the Mendota Yacht Club beachcombers party. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Young girl identified as Jewel Keller using a water pump outside a farm house to cool freshly canned corn. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experime... |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | View from hill of a farm near a pond. There are homes along the far shoreline, and a lake and hills in the far background. |
| Date: | 12 1942 |
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| Description: | Indigenous Panamanian women and children eating dinner along the Chucunaque River. A woman in a jumpsuit holding a hat is watching Panamanian children eati... |
| Date: | 07 30 1954 |
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| Description: | Cub Scouts roasting marshmallows with Aleen Plater, United Givers' Division head. Left to right: Mrs. Plater, Steve Plater, Joey MacDonald, Larry Frohmade... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Dayton Pump Products Company of Belgium, Wisconsin, distributor of Dayton Water Systems, with six vignettes of water systems in use: wate... |
| Date: | 07 23 1926 |
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| Description: | Fake boiler showing glass jars for canning. Original caption reads: "Draw line to show water line when canning with hot water." This photograph was taken a... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Man looking at the camera while he is washing clothes in a washtub. He is wearing a sleeveless shirt and pants with suspenders while he does the laundry. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View of a man wearing a tank top and pants with suspenders washing clothing in three large metal washtubs, which are sitting on top of trunks. |
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| Description: | Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ... |
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| Description: | Group of men and one boy posed sitting on benches on either side of a long table for a meal in an open-sided tent on the banks of a river. In the backgroun... |
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| Description: | Four men and seven women are posing sitting and standing around a picnic on the edge of a river, with a man standing on a bridge in the background. The fir... |
| Date: | 02 05 1957 |
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| Description: | Walter Ladwig of Juda (left) and Oscar Wold of Hillsboro reading The "Wisconsin State Journal" between sessions at the annual University of Wisconsin's Far... |
| Date: | 09 05 1926 |
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| Description: | Dinner menu for the Hotel Witter, with menu listing, flap, front, and back of self-folding mailer, and tipped-in photographic views of the dining room and ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | The dining room at the lodge with a view of the Wisconsin River. The tables are set with white tablecloths, sugar bowls and salt and pepper shakers. |
| Date: | 02 20 1960 |
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| Description: | A Madison couple, Karen and Larry Slotta, solved the babysitting problem at the Yahara Fisherman's Club Percharee on Lake Mendota. They put their 7 1/2 mon... |
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| Description: | One-page menu for Chalet on the Lake, with a colored pen-and-ink still life of a vase of flowers and greenery on a table set with bottles of wine, wine gla... |
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