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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Native Americans near Keshena

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Description: Native Americans on the Menominee Reservation near Keshena, Wisconsin. A white man in the foreground appears to be drawing something out of camera range. T...
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Horses Pulling Logs

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Description: Lumberjacks stand on top of a load of logs pulled by a team of four horses in the snow.
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The Triangle Filling Station

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of the Triangle filling station on Highway 12, which sold gasoline, ice, and other items. A man stands in front by the gas pump, and a map of...
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P&H 5-Ton Auxiliary Type "M" Hoist

Date: 02 10 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton type "M" auxiliary hoist at the Belmont Iron Works. A man wearing a hat is in the cab. The monorail hoist crane, used in stee...
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Man with Super C Tractor and Cultivator

Date: 1952
Description: View of a man crouching in front of a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator to measure a stalk of corn in a field.
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Schuette Bros. Employees

Date: 1910
Description: Five female employees and one male employee posed at the jewelry counter of Schuette Brothers Store. There is an American Red Cross Christmas Seals poster ...
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Men and Woman with International Dump Truck

Date: 10 20 1937
Description: Harold Murphy sits behind the wheel of an International DR-70(?) truck used by contractor M.G. Elwell, left. Mrs. Elwell stands to the right.
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Men Working at Sawmill

Date: 09 1910
Description: Men working at a sawmill outdoors in the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp.
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Constructive Workshops for Older Adults

Date: 11 27 1951
Description: Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly retired men and women. Arlene Find...
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Man Using Walking Planter

Date: 05 02 1925
Description: Man using walking planter pulled by a mule in a field.
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Women Tire Builders

Date: 04 20 1954
Description: Women work in a row on machinery building tires.
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Night Construction with IH Equipment in Vietnam

Date: 1967
Description: Men from the Air Force's Red Horse heavy repair squadrons use International equipment to clear land in Vietnam, possibly for construction of barracks or a ...
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Man Sitting on a Cart in a Factory

Date: 1910
Description: A factory worker is sitting on a cart on at International Harvester's Osborne Works. Behind him are stacked pieces of lumber. Hooks hang from the ceiling. ...
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Cardinal Francis Spellman

Date: 1946
Description: Cardinal Spellman stands with hat in hand looking off to his right. His full body and Cardinal robes are visible. In the left third of the image, a photogr...
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Girl and Boy

Date: 06 1930
Description: Mary and David O'Dea pose together as they sit on the ground while leaning against their parent's garage door on Park Street.
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Cheese Tour

Date: 1976
Description: John J. Widmer gives "Alice in Dairyland," Janice (Findlay) Aiken, a tour of the Widmer Cheese Factory.
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Employes and Their Wives

Date: 1895
Description: Employes of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway and their wives, Mr. and Mrs. N.J. Edwards, W.H. Lenshan, E.B. McLaird, Alf. Hetig, and George McLair...
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D.S. Morgan & Co. Catalog Cover

Date: 1882
Description: Back cover of catalog with an illustration of two men using horse-drawn agricultural machinery in fields, while a group of Native American Indians look on....
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Costa Rican Villagers

Date: 1902
Description: Several Costa Rican villagers posing together next to a tree on a table and a bench. A woman stands behind the table and supports an infant standing on it....

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