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| Description: | Self-portrait of the photographer sitting on a table near a wall wearing a hat and holding a newspaper and pipe. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The photographer holding a large Northern Pike and smoking a pipe in a living room. |
| Date: | 07 03 1896 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of waiters and customers in the Schlitz Palm Garden. The idea of the garden was borrowed from Germany where beer gardens were common. It open... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | The J. Robert family posed around baby Fred in a high chair with his first birthday cake. Family members are identified from left as Ellen Taylor Higgins,... |
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| Description: | A boy wearing overalls and holding a Pepsi bottle is standing on the curb near a trash pile. |
| Date: | 01 1936 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "E.J. Leiser, superintendent of Milwaukee Works. Starting as an office clerk in 1905 and transferring to shop work two years later.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The first aid room and treatment area of one of the Pawling & Harnischfeger plants, stocked with medication and bandages. The room was centrally located in... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Men at their desks in the engineering department, the south end drafting room, of Pawling & Harnischfeger. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Men at their desks in the engineering department, the north end drafting room, of Pawling & Harnischfeger. |
| Date: | 08 12 1913 |
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| Description: | Two men working a desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger accounting office. There are photographs on the wall, including a crane, the P&H plant, and a St. Lo... |
| Date: | 08 15 1913 |
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| Description: | Men at desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger advertising department. Large windows on left look out towards another building, and men on equipment can be se... |
| Date: | 08 15 1913 |
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| Description: | Men working at desks at the Pawling & Harnischfeger shop office. A row of windows is on the left, and another building can be seen through an open window. |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | A hobby show with quilts hanging on the wall, as well as tables with other crafted goods in a room with a high ceiling. |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | Wooden tables and other crafts on display at a craft show in a room with a high ceiling. |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | Bookcase, end tables, pictures, and other crafts at a hobby show. |
| Date: | 05 13 1939 |
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| Description: | A hobby show with quilts hanging from the wall. Rugs are draped over radiators. There are also bedside tables, lamps, a bookshelf, and a rocking chair. A s... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three boys painting with watercolors at a folding table. They appear to be on a porch. |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of people decorating the Garden Queen float for a Fourth of July parade near a large garage. The float reads "Greendale-The Garden City," "Pop. 2800"... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A librarian checks out a book to a young girl, while other children sit at tables reading in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seat... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A woman and man sit at a round table in a public library reading. An office cubicle and magazine rack are visible in the background. When it opened in 1938... |
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