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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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman washing clothes outdoors with a washtub, washboard, wringer, clothespins and clothesline. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C... |
| Date: | 09 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Research Products Company display window at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store, featuring Filter-Fry frying pan cover and E Z Kleen air filters. 17 South ... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Two workers filling a railroad cooling car with ice from an International truck at a railroad yard. |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and boy are using "sedge brush" brooms to sweep a dirt yard as two women — possibly social workers or Agricultural Extension employees — look on. A... |
| Date: | 08 12 1977 |
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| Description: | A man picks up grass from a lawn, with garbage bags of mowed lawn clippings lined up behind him. A lawn mower stands on the sidewalk nearby. |
| Date: | 07 17 1957 |
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| Description: | A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth. |
| Date: | 04 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Eight nurses in uniform posing in front of a building (probably their workplace). Some of the women are holding a bedframe, pail, and a broom, and other it... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Full-length outdoor portrait of Ho-Chunk Chief Silver Tongue standing holding an axe. Brick wall, foliage, and blankets in the background. |
| Date: | 10 18 1984 |
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| Description: | Young boy and girl make the autumn chore of leaf-raking fun. |
| 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: | 04 18 1917 |
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| Description: | Young boys digging a garden in an urban setting on "Mowhawk Street near Larrabee." Original caption reads: "Newberry School boys who have gotten into the h... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
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