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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
| Date: | 1821 |
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| Description: | Indians of the North Red River area, probably in the vicinity of old Fort Douglas, now Winnipeg, Canada, spearing beaver. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | A father standing over a pan wearing an apron. He is cooking and smoking a cigar. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin... |
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| Description: | The Gesell family in costume with broom, sword, and other props for a humorous picture. Family members identified as follows: Gerhard Jr. (drinking from pi... |
| 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: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent. |
| Date: | 08 04 1933 |
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| Description: | Director Tom C. Gannon, (on the right) and Assistant Chef Ed Masury in apron, who is drawing a cup of coffee, standing at the stove in the transient home k... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Abraham Schmocker, a "hermit" who lived in "Stumptown" near Alma, seated on a bench outside his log cabin, holding a kitty. |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of five men standing on a log and a plank of wood while another man is chopping at the log with an axe. |
| 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: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head.... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A freed slave with a hoe in his left hand and his right hand on his hip. Caption at the top reads, "Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter." Ca... |
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| Description: | A soldier hacks a path through a jungle in Panama with a machete while smoking a cigarette. |
| Date: | 02 20 1915 |
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| Description: | A woman and young boy sweep yard with "brush broom" while another woman with two children looks on. Two additional women, possibly Agricultural Extension e... |
| Date: | 07 28 1953 |
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| Description: | William and Audrey Hobbins cooking a hot dog on the grill at the Mendota Yacht Club beachcombers party. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is using a funnel to siphon gasoline from a tank into a pail while smoking a pipe. The photograph was staged on the K. Legge Memorial Farm to demonst... |
| Date: | 10 1926 |
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| Description: | Two men are resting against a haystack while smoking pipes. The photograph was staged at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm to demonstrat... |
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