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Sears Roebuck Fireless Cookers

Date: 1915
Description: Sears Roebuck catalog page of heating radiator, kettles, and pans.
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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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Meat Market

Date: 1910
Description: A customer waits while butchers stand behind the counter of a butcher shop, surrounded by meat hanging from the ceiling.
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Conklin Ice House

Date: 1912
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...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Winter Scene at Little Rib

Date: 01 25 1911
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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Robert K. Jones' Hardware Store

Date: 1910
Description: Interior view of Robert K. Jones' hardware store.
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Lincoln Monument Construction

Date: 1918
Description: Lincoln Monument construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Workmen are standing around the perimeter of a large hole while others are dig...
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Spring Valley Cooking School

Date: 02 12 1915
Description: Room filled with women, some with children, attending a Farmers' Institute Cooking School class at Spring Valley, Wisconsin. There is a table with ingredie...
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P&H Concrete Breaker

Date: 04 15 1916
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...
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Gasoline Powered Concrete Breaker

Date: 04 18 1916
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered concrete breaker on a residential street with an operator in the cab and men working on the ground. Houses and yar...
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Buffalo Street Construction

Date: 10 1914
Description: Buffalo Street construction showing cuts in the pavement and the inconvenience for traffic. Standing between the excavated holes and piles of dirt is a hor...
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Set Dinner Table

Date: 1910
Description: View of small dining room, with a table set for dinner. The walls are decorated with posters and ceramics are on display throughout the room.
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Workers in a Large Quarry

Date: 1911
Description: View of workers in a large quarry in Ableman. Several male workers are standing in the quarry among piles of rock with their work equipment.
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Film Still from "The Clod Hopper"

Date: 1917
Description: Film still of actor, interior kitchen of the farmhouse. Background includes a Hoosier cabinet.
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Rhinelander Butcher Shop

Date: 1911
Description: Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter ...
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Chief Ma-ko-day and Family

Date: 07 1916
Description: St. Croix Ojibwa Chief Ma-Ko-day (Chief Peter Bearheart) and his wife, grandson, and another unidentified person in front of their birch wigwam located in ...
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"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...
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Russian Village Well

Date: 1918
Description: A mother with her children retrieving water from a village well in Russia.
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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 ...
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Russians Working on Railroad

Date: 1918
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...

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