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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... |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | Interior view of Frank J. Hess and Sons barrel-making factory, 1952 Atwood Avenue at Schenck's Corners. Pictured l to r: Frank Jr., Edward, Joseph, Tony, a... |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Group of men posing in the dining room at August Mason's lumber camp. Three men are playing stringed instruments. Posters are displayed on the wall behind ... |
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Description: | Two men preparing a meal in a lumber camp shanty or bunkhouse. |
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Description: | L.E. Mercer, of Lenox Iowa, posed with honey-producing equipment. Mercer is wearing a full suit, bow tie, and hat. |
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Description: | The Eben Peck cabin was the first house built in Madison. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | A crew of construction workers paving North Main Street with brick. |
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Description: | Barn interior on the Greene Farm with cows in stalls, with one man milking a cow, and another man standing and holding a bucket and milking stool. |
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Description: | Illustration of an Indian (possibly Menominee) camp of sugar makers. |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | A foldout, illustrated poster for a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth program featuring images of teenaged boys working. The text reads: "The CCC — A... |
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Description: | Two women stand outside the doorway of a log house in winter. They are posed with a washtub, broom and dust pan. |
Date: | 1890 |
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Description: | Men posed with a team of four oxen harnessed to pull a loaded logging sled. |
Date: | 1915 |
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Description: | Sears Roebuck catalog page of heating radiator, kettles, and pans. |
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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. |
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Description: | African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia. |
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Description: | Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other. |
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