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Date: | 1879 |
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Description: | A pond at the Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery (aka Nevin Fish Hatchery, 3911 Fish Hatchery Road) with a sign reading "Brook Trout 3 and 4 years old." Funds f... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Winter scene with three men and a dog on railroad tracks, also a man in the far background. Two of the men are up on the snowbanks with shovels. "The Grand... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Winter scene with train crew shoveling snow off tracks of Madison-Portage Railroad. Stereo. "The Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage R... |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Mechanic working on a tractor in the service station at T.A. Rhudy and Son, an International Harvester farm equipment and truck dealership. |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | Allen E. Adsit is in the left foreground in this photograph and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated at right. Seen near the house are a wooden rain barrel... |
Date: | 1873 |
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Description: | A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Family by wood fence with one child sitting on top of gate; wood house with upper window shutter closed and shutter trim around doorway; trellis by porch. ... |
Date: | 1874 |
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Description: | Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ... |
Date: | 08 29 1876 |
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Description: | The extended family of Aslak Olsen Lie posing before the home he built in 1849 with his brother Ole after immigrating in 1848. The house is a combination o... |
Date: | 01 18 1921 |
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Description: | A man wearing overalls shaping a piece of metal at a workbench. A variety of hand tools are on the bench and the wall. The man is likely working at Interna... |
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Description: | Interior of the Leslie Werner Repair Shop. A worker is repairing a violin and there are many bicycle rims and parts in view. |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks. |
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Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
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Description: | A cyanotype postcard of a bee farmer working in his field. |
Date: | 1891 |
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Description: | Elevated view of a barn raising on the farm of Alva Paddock in the township of Salem on Geneva Road, Highway 50. |
Date: | 1951 |
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Description: | Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
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