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Studio Shenanigans

Date: 1900
Description: Four men use a ladder to pose on top of each other. There is a painted backdrop behind them. They are wearing suit jackets, vests with watch fobs, and trou...
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Madison's Old Central Fire Station, 1881-1904

Date: 1902
Description: Madison's old Central Fire Station (1881-1904), 10 South Webster Street, with two ladder wagons pictured in front of the station. The wagon on the left is ...
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Wisconsin Central Pile Driver Car

Date: 1907
Description: Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks.
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Uncle Herman's Farm

Date: 08 02 1903
Description: Group of well-dressed people posing outdoors at Uncle Herman's farm. Harry Dankoler is the man in the middle holding the shutter release mechanism. On the ...
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Bossy's Baronial Barn

Date: 1905
Description: Log cabin barn and haystack.
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Downtown Cumberland and Beaver Dam Lake

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of Cumberland with Beaver Dam Lake in the background. In the foreground is a street, and across the street is a church, a water tower and dwe...
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Lodging House for the First Territorial Legislature

Date: 1906
Description: Building used as a lodging house for the First Territorial Legislature held in Belmont in 1836.
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Building Used as Lodging House by Members of the first Territorial Legislature

Date: 1906
Description: Building used as a lodging house for the First Territorial Legislature held in Belmont in 1836.
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Bardon Residence

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of the Richard Bardon residence, with a man standing in front of it.
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Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor

Date: 11 08 1900
Description: Consecration of Bishop Weller as Bishop Coadjutor, Diocese of Fund du Lac. Three Bishops seated, l to r: Bishop Nicholson of Milwaukee; Bishop Grafton of F...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Onion Mound

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani...
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Weber Works Lumber Yard

Date: 03 12 1909
Description: View across unpaved road towards four men standing outside of the Weber Works lumberyard. The men are standing near a gate in the fence surrounding industr...
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Men at Forge at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men working with hot metal in what appears to be a forge at the McCormick Reaper Works factory.
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Agricultural Workshop

Date: 1909
Description: Young men work on woodworking projects in a manual training class at the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy.
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F. Dohmen Company

Date: 1900
Description: Interior of (Floor No. 10) The F. Dohmen Company Wholesale Druggists. A salesman's catalog with removable screwed bindings and pages of note paper bound b...
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25 Foot Tall White Pearl Corn

Date: 1909
Description: View of a man standing on a ladder, using an axe on a stalk of white pearl corn which is claimed to be 25 feet tall, somewhere in Georgia. A field is in th...
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Washburn Observatory

Date: 1905
Description: The observatory on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.
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Exhibit Case on a Factory Floor

Date: 1900
Description: A wooden exhibit cabinet, apparently recently constructed, on what appears to be a factory or shop floor with a work table, ladder, saw horse and wood shav...
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Milwaukee Turners Gymnasts

Date: 1909
Description: Six group portraits of men in human pyramid formations using ladders and one group portrait of men posing as a group at the 30th National Turnerfest in Cin...
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Processing Facility

Date: 1902
Description: Men standing around a brick processing facility that may be near a body of water. A burn-barrel is in the foreground.

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