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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Paving block cutters at work at the the Montello Granite Company. Two men holding large hammers are posing underneath a tarp which is shading large pieces ... |
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| Description: | General Motors chassis assembly. Men are working among the machinery. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine. |
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| Description: | Miners probably grading galena (lead) ore by putting pieces in drums with holes and letting smaller ones fall through. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | View of construction workers and stone carvers/cutters (some of them probably Italian) showing the detailed sections of the building of the State Historica... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
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| Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
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| Description: | Four women workers standing in front of the Four Wheel Drive Factory. |
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| Description: | Women employees at Four Wheel Drive's Clintonville factory. |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View from water tower, showing the grove where Black Hawk's pursuers were supposed to have camped in 1832. The group of men in the foreground are digging f... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a girl sitting on a barrel as a man dumps apples into a press to make cider. Two men manually operate the press at the left. |
| Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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| Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
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| Description: | Two men casting molten aluminum into slabs by hand at the Mirro Aluminum Company. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Man operating a gas-powered concrete tamper/breaker that is being used to consolidate concrete over ditches after laying water or sewage main pipes. There ... |
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