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| Description: | Two work campers at the Highlander Folk School cleaning the school grounds. The boy in front is using a scythe to clear brush. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Three seated women with bowls on their laps peel apples outdoors while two men stand in the background. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Knives and shears in a display case behind a show window, which is reflecting buildings and clouds in the sky. |
| Date: | 05 17 1937 |
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| Description: | Anvil and anvil stone with a plaque stating: "Anvil and Anvil Stone similar to ones used by Cyrus Hall McCormick in making the First Reaper on Walnut Grove... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | A child looks on as two farmers, one of whom is possibly M.C. Mather, use a Farmall Regular(?) tractor to power a Ronning dump blower to fill a silo at Che... |
| Date: | 05 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor of the Madison Diocese is shown removing the first shovel of dirt at the ground-breaking of the Queen of Apostles Seminary being... |
| Date: | 06 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Donald Hanson, who discovered the fire at the lumber and appliance building of the Central Wisconsin Supply Company and turned in the alarm. The fire total... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International model "F" or "31" truck operated by H.G. Luker Co. of Kittanning. A man in work clothes is sitting in the driver's seat, and a ridge with hom... |
| Date: | 06 25 1948 |
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| Description: | Edwin Morgan, at bench, and James Price, shirtless with cigarette in his mouth, are painting scenery for the Crater Players production of "The Drunkard". |
| Date: | 07 18 1948 |
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| Description: | Bishop William P. O'Connor, in vestments, turning the first shovel of dirt for the building that will contain the parish auditorium and six classrooms on t... |
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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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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 11 1948 |
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| Description: | Five Madison city lifeguards that were assigned to prepare the Breese Stevens Field for the All Star high school football game. Left to right are: Glenn Wi... |
| Date: | 07 13 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men stand on the side of a building. On man is setting a milk canister into a bulkhead of a cellar, while the other stands to the side holding ice ton... |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers at Fort Leavenworth learn about trench work, an important skill for World War I combat. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Army engineers at Camp Curtiss, demonstrating zincographic equipment. Zincography was a form of printing for large maps using zinc plates. |
| Date: | 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Gravel screening and separating plant of the 310th Engineers in operation on a road near Camp Custer. All of the soldiers at work on this road construction... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three African American soldiers with a company of engineers somewhere in France. They are holding a shovel, pick, and sledgehammer. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, holding the toy airplane, and a group of friends, all of whom are wearing short pants, sitting on the windowsill in fron... |
| Date: | 08 23 1948 |
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| Description: | City manager Leonard G. Howell, breaking the ground with a shovel, at the ground-breaking ceremony for the new Naval Reserve training center in Kendall Fie... |
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