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Boys Constructing Fly Trap

Date: 1914
Description: Two boys construct a fly trap. A boy holds mesh in place against a wooden box frame while another boy uses a hammer to nail it into place. They kneel in wh...
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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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Men and Women Woodworking Outdoors

Date: 08 1919
Description: A large group of men and women, probably teachers, stand outside at work benches assembling wood products, which include nail boxes and benches.
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Woman Assembling Nail Box with Teacher

Date: 08 1919
Description: A woman, probably a teacher, is standing at a work bench outdoors nailing together a nail box. Her instructor, identified by original caption as Mr. Shephe...
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Group of Women Learning Woodworking

Date: 1918
Description: Group of women, probably teachers, using tools to assemble various wooden products including nail boxes, benches and cabinetry(?). Three large posters are ...
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Students Making a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two young boys on the floor of a room, probably a classroom, nailing mesh screening to the frame of their fly trap.
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Man Standing on Scaffolding

Date: 05 1926
Description: A man stands on makeshift scaffolding while hammering a nail into a door awning. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extens...
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Boys Making Fly Traps

Date: 1920
Description: A group of boys at the Burton School construct wooden fly traps in a classroom.
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Making Germination Boxes and Corn Racks

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
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St. Raphael Cathedral Remodeling

Date: 09 08 1953
Description: Martin Baaken, Dennis Meronek, and Paul Brantmeyer remove pews from one section of St. Raphael Cathedral as a historic remodeling project gets under way at...
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Students in Cabinetmaking Class

Date: 12 20 1961
Description: Three students work in the shop for a cabinetmaking class at Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools.
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Shoe Rebuilding Class

Date: 12 29 1961
Description: Students work in a shoe rebuilding class at the Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools.
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Man Standing on Barrel

Date: 06 1927
Description: A man is standing on a wooden barrel which is resting on a wooden box on concrete entrance steps near a door. He is using a hammer to fix a window frame. T...
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Boys Building Fly Traps

Date: 1915
Description: Boys use various tools to make fly traps in a classroom. A man, probably their instructor, stands in the background in front of a chalkboard.
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Dave & Pauline Coleman

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Description: Magicians Dave (left) and Pauline Coleman performing their famous "Hindu Torture Board" trick using an anvil on a board full of nails positioned on the abd...
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Christmas Customs

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: Maybelle Otterson demonstrates a Christmas custom as she hangs a front door decoration on her home at 209 North Blackhawk Avenue in Shorewood.
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WPA at Work

Date: 1937
Description: National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program."
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I.W. Acker

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Description: Tintype portrait (slightly tinted) of Isaac Wagner Acker (left) and an unidentified individual. Acker was born in 1837 in Whetstone, Crawford County, Ohio....
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Newspaper Speakeasy

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Description: A keg of Prohibition Era beer in the darkroom of the "Milwaukee Sentinel" being enjoyed by newspapermen: (left to right) Red Thisted, Eddie Oroth, Guy Hels...

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