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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
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| Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
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| Description: | Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harold F. McCormick (with cup) and his children, left to right: Muriel, Harold, Jr. and Mathilde at the Walnut Grove farm in Rockbridge County. |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Black and white ink drawing of an old wooden well. |
| Date: | 01 25 1911 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a winter scene with men fishing on a frozen lake. Two men pull on the line attached to the fish's mouth, while one holds an axe above its h... |
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| Description: | Fishing nets and implements and boats along the shoreline of the Mississippi River, with buildings visible in the background. |
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| Description: | Man ice fishing on Chequamegon Bay through a hole with a fishing jig, fish and fry pan. |
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| Description: | Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ... |
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| Description: | Man inspecting a clam. Another man stands behind him and a shoreline is in the background. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The Ramsay & Jones Mill with logs in the water in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill. |
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| Description: | Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field. |
| Date: | 03 23 1981 |
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| Description: | An animal control officer with a dead alligator that has been pulled out of the water. |
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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: | 1625 |
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| Description: | An illustrated map of the world with captions in Latin. Illustrations include depictions of the seasons and the elements. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
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