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Ramsay & Jones Mill Yard

Date: 1887
Description: Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill.
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Lumber Sled

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Description: Horse-drawn lumber sled loaded with logs. Five lumbermen are standing on and near sled.
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Working in a Garden

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Description: A group of people work together in a garden.
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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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Students Learn to Bake

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Description: These young men and boys are students in a baking class at a vocational school.
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Sheet Metal Factory Worker

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Description: A boy (teenager?) works in a sheet metal factory.
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Arc Welding

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Description: Franklin Fransway receives vocational training in arc welding.
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Construction of a Paper Mill

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Description: Elevated view of workers during construction of a paper mill.
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Construction Workers

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Description: Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background.
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I.W. Acker

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Description: Tintype portrait (slightly tinted) of Isaac Wagner Acker (left) and an unidentified individual. Acker was born in 1837 in Whetstone, Crawford County, Ohio....
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American Plumbing & Heating Company

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Description: A group portrait of workers in the American Plumbing & Heating Company.
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Manufacturing Enameled Metalware

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Description: Several men dip pitchers and pails to apply metal at Vollrath Company.
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Group of Men and Boys Threshing

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men and boys threshing. They are using a tractor for a belt-driven threshing machine, and on the left two horses pull a wagon with large barrels.
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Devil's Lake CCC Worker

Date: 1935
Description: Man in work clothes holding a shovel loaded with dirt while another man watches in the background. The men were Civilian Conservation Corps workers at Devi...
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Cranberry Harvest

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Description: Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field.
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Rolling Machine at Bracken Brae, John Johnston's Country Home

Date: 1891
Description: Julia, the cook, on the rolling machine pulled by a team of horses wearing fly-nets. She is wearing a full-length dress and holding a whip in her right han...
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Navajo Woman Weaving a Blanket

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Description: A seated Navajo woman weaves a blanket near two young children. Cooking pots and utensils are in the right foreground.
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Truckload of Cranberries

Date: 10 1968
Description: A large truckload of cranberries being unloaded into a large open storage tank. The truck has been lifted into the air on a large platform, and a woman sta...
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Dead Alligator

Date: 03 23 1981
Description: An animal control officer with a dead alligator that has been pulled out of the water.
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August Kroll Letterhead

Date: 1888
Description: Letterhead of August Kroll of Leopolis, Wisconsin, dealer in hardware, stoves, and tinware, with an image of the interior of a store and customers being he...

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