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Domestic Staff with Work Utensils

Date: 1890
Description: The household staff (probably Swedish) for one family home, including laundresses, cooks, parlor maids, and scullery girls with their various work utensils...
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Two Women with Cleaning Implements

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Description: Two women are standing on the small porch outside an open kitchen door, near implements used for daily household tasks such as washing, scrubbing, sweeping...
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Lumber Camp

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Description: Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs.
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Raking Lawn

Date: 1910
Description: Woman in hat and young girl raking the lawn.
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Two Women Outside a Log Cabin

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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.
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Leslie Werner Repair Shop

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Description: Interior of the Leslie Werner Repair Shop. A worker is repairing a violin and there are many bicycle rims and parts in view.
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Two Linemen for Telephone Exchange

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Description: Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga...
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Farm Family Posing Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: View down driveway towards a farm family posing in front of their farmhouse and farm buildings. An older man and woman are sitting. Three women are standin...
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Interior of Repair Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Two men in a repair shop, probably the repair shop of Leslie Werner. Leslie Werner is identified as the man wearing the hat on the left.
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Three Workmen

Date: 1900
Description: Man posing on a telephone pole with climbing equipment, with two men standing below.
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Three Lumberjacks

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Description: Three lumberjacks posing with their tools and a little girl. From right to left are Jule "Buck" Allen," Neil Hauger, and unidentified.
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Senior High School

Date: 1897
Description: Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ...
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Men Parading with Axes

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Description: Men parading down street with axes over their shoulders. Probably the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal insurance body in the 1890s which was strong i...
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Man Sharpening Scythe

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Description: A man using a whetting stone to sharpen a scythe in a backyard.
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Man Cutting Grass

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Description: A man cuts grass around a pole with a scythe.
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Family Scything in a Field

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Description: Three men scythe a field, possibly of wheat. Behind the men there are three children and a woman standing in a row.
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Men in Woods

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Description: Two men sitting in front of an open-sided wooden shelter. One man is sitting on a barrel on a sled, and the other man is sitting on a log. The sled and hor...
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Women in Field

Date: 1900
Description: Two women wearing large hats stand in a field carrying a pail. Farm buildings are in the far background.
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Canoe Outdoors near House

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Description: A canoe rests on sawhorses in front of a stack of firewood and frame house.
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Canoe on Sawhorses

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Description: A canoe rests on sawhorses in front of a stack of firewood and frame house.

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