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International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of men loading lumber onto a truck with utility stake body. Includes the text: "...
Photograph

Three Women and Two Men

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Description: Outdoor portrait of three women and two men, all posing sitting on a wooden platform, perhaps in a lumber yard. A large open shed structure and stacks of t...
Print

International D-40 Truck Brochure

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising brochure for International D-40 trucks, featuring a color illustration of men stacking lumber near a D-40 stake body truck. Two other men stand...
Photograph

Depot and Train

Date: 1913
Description: View down railroad tracks of Cross Plains train depot. A man in the foreground walks away from the depot. A train, exhausting steam, is stopped at the plat...
Photograph

Wood Lumber Company Delivery Truck

Date: 11 30 1937
Description: Mr. Allan K. Wood stands beside an International C-300 truck owned by Wood Lumber Company. Piles of lumber are stacked in the background, and there is a ma...
Photograph

Group of Men Posed with Railroad Train

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Description: View from steep bank of a large group of men posed standing with shovels by a railroad train with flat cars covered with sand or dirt. Man of the men are h...
Photograph

Men Holding Pipes

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Description: Three men posed standing against a fence holding pipes in a yard. In the background is a river clogged with floating logs floating. Several wooden building...
Photograph

Hemlock Bark

Date: 1895
Description: The front (top) and back (bottom) of a promotional card advertising the large amounts of hemlock bark in Northern Wisconsin. The image shows three men sitt...
Photograph

Group of Men Posed at Construction Site

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Description: Men posed standing at the construction site. They are probably laying the foundation of a building. A small wooden building in the background has a poster ...
Photograph

Group of People on a Bridge

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Description: View from shoreline of people, men, women and children, gathered in groups on a wooden bridge. A sign in the middle of the bridge reads: "$50 Fine for Cutt...
Photograph

Boys' Woodwork Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Group of boys at a woodworking session in the basement shop at Neighborhood House, with boys posing with various tools and planks of wood. In the far backg...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 132-138

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Description: As though the tree inclined lacked discipline, pruned of its working part
Photograph

Drive at the Narrows

Date: 1905
Description: A man wearing a suit and hat is standing in a roadway through "the narrows." In the background is a steep ridge. Also in the background are stacks of wood ...
Photograph

Young Couple Sitting Outside

Date: 1919
Description: Young couple seated outdoors on what appears to be a pile of lumber.
Photograph

Men Posing in the New Street

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of group gathered and posed on a new street. Behind the group is a large pile of lumber, wooden sidewalks, and what appear to be newly-constr...
Photograph

European American Family and Their Home

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Description: Outdoor group portrait in an unidentified location of a group posing in the yard of wooden house. There is a man and a woman sitting in the center, each ho...
Photograph

Men Posing on Dock Unloading Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View of men on a dock with binder. There are town buildings in the background.
Photograph

Men Posing at Lumber Yard

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Description: View across field of scrub grass towards a group of men, some in work clothes and other men wearing suits, standing in a lumberyard at a logging camp. Ther...
Photograph

Group of Teachers

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Description: Group portrait of Mercer County teachers, men and women, making a project in vitalized agriculture. They are in a wood workshop, and some of the women are ...
Photograph

Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: Construction workers are lifting a piece into place using a wooden structure supporting a winch and pulley set up near the facade of the Eau Claire Public ...

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