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Lawn Maintenance

Date: 08 12 1977
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.
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Making Dolls

Date: 07 17 1957
Description: A young woman helps a girl make toy dolls out of cloth.
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Woman Carrying Water to Farmhouse

Date: 04 1923
Description: Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter.
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Nurses

Date: 1900
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...
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Working on a Chain-Gang

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Description: African American prison inmates working on a road chain-gang in Florida or Georgia.
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Bay View Rolling Mill

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Description: Exterior of the Bay View Rolling Mill, Puddling Department, with workers posing outside the building. The men are standing near railroad tracks, and a few ...
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Colonial Britannia Dishware

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Description: Early American Britannia dishware.
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Playing in Canoes on a Lake

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Description: Two women try to knock each other off of their canoes while standing and swinging brooms at each other.
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Spearing Sturgeon at the Dam #23

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Description: Spearing sturgeon at the dam in Kilbourn. There is a man with a sturgeon on a spear in the foreground, and another man with a spear is in the background. A...
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Ho-Chunk Woman Tanning a Buckskin

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Description: Ho-Chunk woman tanning a buckskin. Typical dwellings (chipotekes) are in the background.
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Unloading Coal

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Description: A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr...
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Ho-Chunk Woman Tanning a Buckskin

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Description: Ho-Chunk woman tanning buckskin. Typical dwellings (chipotekes) are in the background.
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Raftsman's Series No. 1408: Cook and Cookie Before Dinner

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Description: Stereograph of a group of men on a raft. The man in the foreground is sitting and peeling potatoes. The young man splitting wood is Ashley Bennett, son of ...
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Workers Pouring Molten Metal at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Three workers pouring molten metal into small containers at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com...
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Raftsman's Series No. 1424: On A Sandbar, Jack Run Out. Hold Her Boys

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of three raftsmen standing in the river, probably on a sandbar, using wooden poles to hold or push against the rafts.
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Workers Handling Castings at International Harvester's Tractor Works

Date: 1919
Description: Factory workers using a pulley to load castings onto a table at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory produced tractors (including Farmall A...
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Nutrition Lab

Date: 1931
Description: Two students work in the nutrition lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Train at Turkey River Bluff

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Description: Upper Mississippi, Turkey River Bluff. View over locomotive of diverging railroad tracks. A man with an axe is walking down the tracks on the left towards ...
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Chief Silver Tongue

Date: 1929
Description: Full-length outdoor portrait of Ho-Chunk Chief Silver Tongue standing holding an axe. Brick wall, foliage, and blankets in the background.
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Female Curling Team

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Description: A female curling team poses with their brooms and stones for a portrait.

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