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Weldering, Agricultural Short Course

Date: 1950
Description: Two students welding at the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Short Course.
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Farm Hazard: Chopping Wood

Date: 1926
Description: A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood.
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Men Cutting Wood

Date: 1900
Description: Three men cutting points on logs for fence posts.
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Woodworkers at Neighborhood House

Date: 02 20 1951
Description: Four men complete woodworking tasks at Neighborhood House, the oldest community center in Madison. It was established in 1916.
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Young Women Woodworking in Class Room

Date: 1920
Description: Group of young women, probably students, assembling wooden nail boxes and benches in a classroom.
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Capping Tin Cans

Date: 05 1915
Description: Mae Gribbon uses a soldering tool to seal tin cans in a home canning operation.
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Woman at Wood Pile

Date: 1923
Description: A woman, possibly Anna Neary, gathering pieces of chopped wood in her arms as she kneels near a wood pile on the A.E. Bancroft farm.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 10 04 1923
Description: A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background...
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Walter Maas of 4029 Council Crest making hand-made Christmas gifts for wife, Cecelia, and children, Twig and Robin.
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Decoupage Art

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This photograph depicts the final step of pasting the design onto the tray with a small br...
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Decoupage Art

Date: 04 07 1954
Description: Close-up of Fern Fowler's hands as she creates a decoupage tray. This is one of two images of decoupage process steps.
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Wilbur La Bounty, Paralyzed Homecrafter Making Bird Houses

Date: 03 15 1955
Description: He is Wilbur La Bounty, paralyzed homecrafter, making bird houses. He is sitting before a work table with a jig saw and his completed 12 log cabin-style bi...
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Boot Repair

Date: 1970
Description: A shoemaker repairs the sole of a boot using a sewing machine.
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Boot Repair

Date: 1970
Description: A shoemaker repairs the sole of a boot using a sewing machine.
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Boot Repair

Date: 1970
Description: A shoemaker in his shop at work.
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Madison Art Guild

Date: 01 07 1957
Description: Madison Art Guild members repair picture frames in Doris Brobst's recreation room at 211 Lathrop Street. Standing: Jean Johnson. Sitting on left: Ellsworth...
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Neighborhood House Boys Club Woodworking

Date: 1926
Description: Group of boys working on various woodworking projects: sawing, hammering, and marking. A man in a shirt and tie is talking to one of the boys in the backgr...
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Six O'Clock Club Dinner Menu/Program

Date: 11 19 1900
Description: Front cover of the program for a Six O'Clock Club dinner, with a man in a pastoral setting wearing a chef's hat and an apron, reading a Thanksgiving procla...
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Emergency Mass Feeding Demonstration

Date: 10 14 1954
Description: Helen Giessel, left, holds a large juice can as Avis McLean cuts it with a tin sheers to make a plate during part of an emergency mass feeding demonstratio...
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Ridgeway Lumber Store

Date: 1948
Description: Interior of the Ridgeway Lumber Store before the opening on May 15, 1948. Owned by Elmer and Willard Droster, and G. Wichman.

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