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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: | 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: | 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. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harold F. McCormick (with cup) and his children, left to right: Muriel, Harold, Jr. and Mathilde at the Walnut Grove farm in Rockbridge County. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 25 1937 |
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| Description: | F.w. Woolworth Co. show window. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A smiling woman holding an axe holding a pose while chopping wood. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men and a child in Granton (vicinity), Clark County, Wisconsin. They are gathering maple syrup with a horse-drawn sled. |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 15 1916 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 18 1916 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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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