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Henry Mathews

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Description: Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas...
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Two Linemen for Telephone Exchange

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Description: Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga...
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Portrait of Lumberjack

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of a lumberjack wearing a hat, fringed shirt, trousers, suspenders, and what appear to be spiked boots. He is holding a peavey and is posin...
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Movie Set Scaffolding

Date: 1929
Description: A photograph from the set of the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the...
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Six Men Pulling Another Man's Tooth

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Description: Studio portrait of six young men pretending to pull a seated young man's tooth with pliers. One man is on the floor holding the dental patient's legs. Thre...
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Studio Portrait of Two Lumberjacks

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Description: A studio portrait of two men, probably lumberjacks, that are posed playing cards, drinking, and smoking in front of a painted backdrop. The two men are sit...
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Studio Portrait of Two Lumberjacks Drinking

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Description: Two unidentified white men, dressed as lumberjacks, sit on a wood log in Van Schaick's studio, drinking, smoking and playing cards, with a saw and an axe n...
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John Johnston and Curling Team Members

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of John Johnston (1836-1904), a successful Milwaukee banker, seated second from right, with three other curl...
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Depot and Yards

Date: 1911
Description: View across railroad tracks of the Merrimac train depot. Against the building a man poses on top of a ladder. He is repainting the exterior. There is a hou...
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We Saw You . . . Aiding Atwood Avenue Center

Date: 12 13 1958
Description: Member of Zeta Beta Tau fraternity at the University of Wisconsin took some of their free time to paint and repair at the Atwood Avenue Community Center. C...
Painting

The Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Cranberry harvesters at work. Mural painting in the U.S. Post Office at Berlin, Wis.
Photograph

Woman with a Shepherd's Crook

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Description: Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a young woman posing standing on fake grass and holding on to a prop gate on a fence. She is holding a Sh...
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Two Men

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Description: Ferrotype/tintype of a full-length portrait of two men posing with bricks and trowels in front of a painted backdrop. They are standing next to a faux ston...
Drawing

"This Isn't a Tunnel!"

Date: 1941
Description: Drawing of a railroad employee standing on a handcar on the tracks painting the surface of a "tunnel" with a brush. Another man is looking at him with a ha...

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