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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Factory worker inspecting the barrel of an M-1 rifle produced at International Harvester's Evansville Works for the U.S. military. |
| Date: | 03 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Men operating a belt-driven sawmill powered by a McCormick-Deering Farmall F-30 tractor on the property of W.A. Moorhead. |
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| Description: | Workers loading logs onto an International RF-230 logging truck owned by George M. Pierson. A man is in a forklift behind the truck, and another man is sta... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of two men servicing oil field equipment. An International model RDF-192 truck owned by "Dowell" is parked in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Men working around an International pickup truck parked at a construction site. The truck, possibly a B-120 or B-130, was owned by Carson Contractors. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Workers during the construction of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin building. |
| 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: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of two men standing on a snowy street with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. They are holding snow shovels. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Interior of State Historical Society of Wisconsin during construction. Image shows bricks used in the building and workers. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Three employees working at the Hess Cooperage sawmill, quarter sawing oak logs to make staves and heads for barrels. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess, Eddie Hess, and Foots Hess (l to r) of the Hess Cooperage pose with a large oak log which will be cut into staves and heads for barrels. Houses ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the Hess Cooperage, working at machines that are milling oak lumber into staves for barrels. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. using a draw knife to shape an oak barrel stave at the Hess Cooperage. Also known as "schnitzeling on the schnitzelbank". |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess finishing barrel heads at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank Hess Sr., owner of Hess Cooperage, trimming cattails, used to cauk oak barrels. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. and Tony Hess using a truss hoop driver to install hoops around a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. Also known as "trussing". |
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