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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A farmer is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field, while workers are gathering sheaves of grain. The farmer is holding a raised switch. |
| Date: | 06 11 1894 |
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| Description: | Several men unload coal from barges with shovels. A row of buildings is in the background. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market. |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The state seal of Wisconsin appears in the upper left corner. To the right reads: "Head Quarters 18th Reg. Wis. Vol, Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee" On t... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of four raftsmen shipping an oar in the Dells. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a raftsman holding a rope as a second man is running towards the edge of the raft. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | The logging camp of Bruno Vinett. About a dozen horses, most in harness, and a similar number of men stand in front of a barn-like building and a small woo... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several buildings making up the Sheboygan Falls Tannery, which was owned by proprietor C.S. Weisse. Weisse is at the far right, standing w... |
| Date: | 1825 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Men pose on top of and in front of the Spaulding, Van Hoosier & Company Sawmill. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Large group of people posed in, on and around the frame of a barn at a barn raising. A smaller building is in the background on the left. Cultivated fields... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Front cover featuring illustrations of wheeled scrapers, drag scrapers, railroad plows and road graders. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large group of men pose on the wooden framework of a barn that they are building. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A large group of men pose on the wooden framework of a barn they're building on Holy Hill Road, which has a stone foundation. On the far right three women ... |
| Date: | 03 1881 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad right of way. Between F... |
| Date: | 03 1881 |
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| Description: | A winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm in Racine County. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad righ... |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Cut-away lithography illustration of a mining operation, showing men lowering a miner into a mine where several other men are working. |
| Date: | 05 26 1866 |
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| Description: | Page one of "The Workingman's Advocate." The front page of the newspaper includes an illustration that advertises "Artificial Legs and Arms" for wounded Ci... |
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