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Photograph

Producing Land Cover Map

Date: 
Description: Person's hands, one with with wedding ring on left hand, using a ruler, pencil, and protractor to draw a land cover map for Wisconsin Land Economic Invento...
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General Plow, Safety Cartoon

Date: 1964
Description: Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon depicts four men in a semi-circle looking at a personified wrench standing on a rais...
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Service Procedures Household Refrigerators Cartoon

Date: 1949
Description: Cartoon from an International Harvester technical manual. The cartoon depicts a repair man dropping a pair of pliers on the shelf of an open, personified r...
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Mechanical Drawing and Workshop Mathematics Class

Date: 1910
Description: Students are seated at desks in a mechanical drawing and workshop mathematics class at the Milwaukee School of Trades.
Manuscript

Earth Borer

Date: 1828
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing and description of an earth borer for his handwritten manuscript, Notes and Accounts of Canals, Particularly the Ohio Canal Ne...
Print

Dynamiters

Date: 05 11 1938
Description: Lithograph of two men using dynamite to break rock. One man is prying at a crevasse with a pole.
Historical Object

Joy Camps Postcards

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Description: Page from Sue Ann Hackett Blue Album displaying four Joy Camps postcards of different colors with different scenes depicted on each. Each postcard reads, "...
Photograph

Sawmill Inside Shed

Date: 1914
Description: Drawing of a sawmill inside three-sided roofed shed, open to the front. Attached to a barn along the back wall.
Book or Pamphlet

Christmas Card with Sid Using a Trowel

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Description: Four-fold, cover with line drawing of a trowel topped by a star standing upright on a broken brick. Inside is a photograph of Sid using a trowel pointing a...
Magazine or Periodical

The Electric Light in Houses

Date: 06 24 1882
Description: Three depictions of men laying electrical tubes in the streets of New York and testing them for insulation. Caption reads: "The Electric Light in Houses— L...

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