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Conklin Ice House

Date: 1912
Description: Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p...
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Northeast View of Power House Coffer Dam at Power Dam

Date: 08 07 1912
Description: Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou...
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Man Assembling Chassis

Date: 06 1961
Description: A factory worker crouches to assemble a Cub Cadet lawn tractor chassis hanging from a ceiling-mounted assembly line at International Harvester's Louisville...
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Hanging Cub Cadet Chassis

Date: 06 1961
Description: A Cub Cadet lawn tractor chassis hangs from a ceiling conveyor at International Harvester's Louisville Works. Factory workers are in the background, and on...
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Cranberry Growers

Date: 10 1984
Description: Tim Finch and Kay Finch of the Perry Creek Cranberry Company. In the background men work in the cranberry marsh to harvest the berries.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Cranberry marshes flooded and full of cranberries for the harvest. In the background is farm equipment, and men are removing the cranberries from the marsh...
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Men harvest cranberries by raking the fruit across flooded marshes onto a conveyor belt which loads the berries into trucks.
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Cranberry Harvest

Date: 1983
Description: Men wearing waders stand knee-deep in water harvesting cranberries on flooded marshes.
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Harvesting Cranberries Contained by Booms

Date: 1997
Description: Harvesters wade through cranberries contained by booms in the cranberry marsh as they travel on a conveyor belt into the waiting trucks.
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Man at Conveyor Belt for Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: A man stands in the water next to the conveyor belt that transports cranberries into the truck.
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Men Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1997
Description: Elevated view of harvesters wading through cranberries contained by booms to feed them onto a conveyor to be loaded into the waiting trucks.
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Cutting Ice

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Description: View from ice of men from the CCC group at Camp Petenwell cutting ice. Three men stand on the ice on the right. A steep bank surrounds the icy water. Men a...
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Invitation to Ice Chippers Farewell

Date: 1957
Description: Invitation for Ice Chippers, an ice fishing club of Gisholt Machine Company, to a farewell dinner for Albert LaGrille. The cartoon shows warmly dressed men...
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"An Invitation, Automation on Ice!"

Date: 
Description: Cartoon of warmly dressed men working on conveyor belt on a frozen lake. Fish on a stringer are being pulled up from a hole in the ice onto the conveyor be...

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