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| Description: | Composite photograph/painting of a woman standing and pouring (fake) water into a cracked basin, with the water spilling onto the floor. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p... |
| Date: | 02 04 1864 |
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| Description: | Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman... |
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| Description: | Interior of the Imperial Hotel dining room, Tokyo, Japan, designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, showing the tables set for dinner guests. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
| Date: | 04 15 1916 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on a residential street with a operator in the cab. Men are working in the street, and trees and power lines are l... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Virginia Ross poses at a table in front of a large stove in the kitchen. Caption reads: "Kitchen at Ross's Tel Lake Lodge, Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of an outdoor seating area at Royal Poinciana Hotel. Numerous tables are arranged around the perimeter of a courtyard, each set with a tablecloth, p... |
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| Description: | A group portrait of workers in the American Plumbing & Heating Company. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the West Side Fuel Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with cartoon-style drawings, printed in black ink, of workers mining coal with a pi... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks toward a group of Russian residents working to clear another set of railroad tracks running alongside. In the far distance are tr... |
| Date: | 1840 |
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| Description: | Sod-breaker and five yoke of oxen plowing in front of the “Old Cottage Inn.” In the foreground a boat is on the shoreline. |
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| Description: | View from ice of men from the CCC group at Camp Petenwell cutting ice. Three men stand on the ice on the right. A steep bank surrounds the icy water. Men a... |
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| Description: | Front cover and interior of menu for the Ovens of Brittany bakery and restaurant on Monroe Street. Features illustrations of a jar of utensils, bread, chee... |
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| Description: | Sixth plate ferrotype/tintype full-length portrait of an unidentified young woman standing, facing left, holding a broom partially inside a bucket draped w... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Howard and Jack Greene doing laundry in Lake McFarland. |
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