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IH Factory Fire Department Exhibition

Date: 08 19 1922
Description: A man performs a ladder-climbing stunt in front of onlookers as part of the West Pullman and Milwaukee Works Fire Department Exhibition at West Pullman Par...
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Climbing Ladder with Nails in Mouth

Date: 07 1927
Description: A man wearing a hat and one-piece work suit climbing a wooden ladder while holding nails in his mouth. He appears to be holding an axe in his left hand.
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Man Climbing Ladder

Date: 03 11 1926
Description: A man climbing a wooden ladder placed on snow-covered ground. The ladder is leaning against a barn at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Women at IHC Agriculture Extension Lecture

Date: 1917
Description: Group of women, and a few children, seated in a meeting hall at an Agricultural Extension lecture on Home Economics. A woman at the front of the hall is po...
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Christmas 1952

Date: 1952
Description: Holiday card with a scene of a village in New Mexico. Adobe dwellings with hills, fences, a ladder, trees and a burro can be seen in the background. Six fi...
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Studio at Hickory Hill

Date: 1961
Description: A man stands on a ladder while installing what appears to be a backdrop in the studio on International Harvester's Hickory Hill farm. Several free-standing...
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St. Peter's Lutheran Church

Date: 11 1993
Description: "High winds played havoc with the cross on St. Peter's Lutheran Church. Steeplejack, Tim McNitt, of Kiel was called in to rectify the 'leaning cross.'"
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Christmas Card

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Description: Four-fold, copy art Christmas card made by Sid with two photographs of damaged commercial buildings after a fire. In one image, Sid stands on the slushy st...
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Dinosaur Entrant for UW Circus

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large costume of a six-legged dinosaur in front of the Armory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison...

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