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Barman — Tom

Date: 1932
Description: Tom bartending at Sam's.
Photograph

Cutting the Cheese

Date: 1950
Description: Wisconsin Department of Agriculture workers cut large blocks of Swiss cheese.
Photograph

Sheriff Finn with Sledgehammer

Date: 07 11 1933
Description: Sheriff Finn holding sledgehammer used to break open the safe of Odin Tofsrud, carpenter and truck farmer, who was murdered during the theft of his safe by...
Photograph

Big Falls Fire Fighters

Date: 1910
Description: Group portrait of a fire fighting crew posing with buckets and shovels. They are battling the Big Falls Forest Fire.
Photograph

Boys and Toy Airplane

Date: 1920
Description: Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, holding the toy airplane, and a group of friends, all of whom are wearing short pants, sitting on the windowsill in fron...
Photograph

Man and Woman Grooming Backyard

Date: 1924
Description: A man and woman (possibly husband and wife) maintain a residential backyard. The man, wearing a bow tie, is mowing the lawn with a reel mower, while the wo...
Photograph

Broom and Wash-Basin

Date: 1920
Description: Unidentified man standing in (a farmyard?) with a broom and wash-basin.
Photograph

Madison Beekeeper and Child

Date: 1916
Description: A.C. Bunnill, a beekeeper from Madison, and his child.
Photograph

Punch Table, Milwaukee Electric Railway and Light Co. Outing

Date: 08 26 1906
Description: Exterior view of the punch table at a company picnic under trees. A man stands in the foreground looking at the camera while holding a knife, and the woman...
Photograph

Gisholt Machine Company Employees Working with Molten Metal

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Description: Two employees of Gisholt Machine Company are pouring molten metal from large cauldrons into molds as another worker looks on. A company supervisor is stand...
Photograph

Cook County Canning Class

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Description: Group of young men and women in a canning class working indoors. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
Photograph

Boys Working in Garden

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Description: Three boys are working in a garden at Tilton School. Hand-tinted lantern slide.
Photograph

W.A. Holt and Car Trouble

Date: 09 03 1917
Description: W.A. Holt is standing next to his broken down car in the woods. Three men on the left are examining the wheel of the car. One man is holding a crowbar. On ...
Photograph

Roadside Picnic

Date: 1924
Description: Margaret Bouer Brumder, far right, is sitting on a car seat cushion set on the ground. She is watching her children Herbert Edmund Brumder, reclining on a ...
Photograph

Lunch at Pine Lake

Date: 1929
Description: The Herbert P. Brumder family enjoying a wintertime lunch in their Pine Lake house. They are, from left, Herbert E., Barbara, Margaret, Philip, and Herbert...
Photograph

Birch Bark Gang

Date: 1910
Description: After gathering birch bark, a group of children and an adult are returning to Island Lodge. One boy is pushing a wheelbarrow. Caption reads: "Birch bark ga...
Photograph

Tom Duffy's House

Date: 1905
Description: A wooden windmill tower dominates the front yard of a small one-story wood frame house. A group of people are posing on the left, including two couples sit...
Postcard

Capture of the Hodag

Date: 08 14 1922
Description: Text on front reads: "Capture of the Hodag, Rhinelander, Wis." A large group of men armed with guns, pitchforks and rakes hold a beast at bay on top of a l...

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