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Aldo Leopold with Work Group

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Description: A group of men dressed for work, with implements in hand. Most of them are wearing hats and boots. One man is smoking a pipe. A forest is behind them. Hand...
Manuscript

Neighborhood House Bike Hosteling Scrapbook: Hostel Highlights

Date: 06 26 1940
Description: Page from the scrapbook of bike hosteling trips sponsored by Neighborhood House, with highlights from the second hostel trip to the Post Farm Hostel in Mad...
Manuscript

Better Homes and Gardens Club Record Book: Sprouters

Date: 1939
Description: Page from the Garden Club record book kept by Neighborhood House, with children raking, spading, and posing alongside a yard with newly planted seeds (Neig...
Photograph

Group Posed with Logs

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Description: Group of twelve men and one woman posed with a load of logs waiting to be pulled by two horses harnessed to a sled. Several of the men hold cant hooks or p...
Photograph

Fred O. Petzold in his Woodcarving Studio

Date: 2010
Description: Fred O. Petzold (1911-2011) of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, in a cardigan sweater and plaid shirt stands next to his workbench. His camouflage hunting clothing is h...
Map or Atlas

World Map

Date: 1625
Description: An illustrated map of the world with captions in Latin. Illustrations include depictions of the seasons and the elements.
Photograph

Northern Wisconsin Center Home Economics Class

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of six women wearing aprons learning domestic skills in a kitchen classroom. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, t...
Photograph

Home Economics

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Description: Slightly elevated view of six young women posed in a kitchen. Two women on the left stand at a sink washing dishes, two women stand at a table behind them,...
Photograph

Robert Doyle Shaving

Date: 01 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle shaves while looking in a mirror suspended from a hammock with a rain tarp in the military camp at Saidor, New Guinea (present day Papua New G...
Photograph

Saving Energy with Insulation

Date: 1979
Description: During an energy tour of his district Congressman Obey visited various sites to observe projects to increase energy efficiency. Here a workman is preparing...
Photograph

"Washday" on the Dvina River

Date: 1918
Description: A Russian woman wearing a head scarf is doing laundry while kneeling on the frozen Northern Dvina River, near Arkhangelsk, Russia. It appears she used a sm...
Print

McCormick Celebration Luncheon Menu

Date: 09 25 1931
Description: Luncheon menu and program from a McCormick Celebration at Washington and Lee University, with an etching of a three-quarter view of Cyrus McCormick's first...
Photograph

Russian Village Well

Date: 1918
Description: A mother with her children retrieving water from a village well in Russia.
Photograph

Digging a Ditch and Laying Drain Tile

Date: 
Description: View of a crew surveying land, digging a ditch, and laying drain tile.
Photograph

Working in the Garden

Date: 1933
Description: Earl Woodbury, 14, and his sister Helen, 12, work barefoot in the garden of their home farm. Both are students at the Cloverland School, District No. 2. Th...
Photograph

Lorena Feldmann

Date: 1931
Description: Lorena Feldmann, 13, hoes in the garden at her family's farm. She is somewhat overdressed for the task in a light coat, white stockings and dress shoes. A ...
Photograph

Erecting a New Wireless Radio Pole

Date: 1918
Description: Russians erecting new wireless radio poles near a town. In the background are a number of large buildings behind a wooden fence. On the ground are barrels ...
Photograph

Lena and Alma Herling at their Farm

Date: 1900
Description: Lena and Alma Herling at their farm with a horse and a wheelbarrel. In the far background are farm buildings and what appears to be a church.
Photograph

Getting Water

Date: 1931
Description: George Stallman and Walter Shinkus pose with a bucket at the water pump outside the Tibbets School. They are "getting water for the school." There are hou...
Photograph

Warren Potter

Date: 1932
Description: Warren Potter, holding a bucket, poses with his sheep and lambs. There is a road in the background and a farmstead on the other side of the road.

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