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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Holding a dropper over racks of test tubes, a man in a lab coat aims to place drops in the receptacles. |
| 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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
| Date: | 07 06 1942 |
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| Description: | Four women assembling light sockets. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A smiling woman holding an axe holding a pose while chopping wood. |
| 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. |
| 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: | 01 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Interior of Four Lakes Cleaners, 612 South Park Street, with work room showing two women pressing clothes, and racks of clean clothes. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
| 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: | Large stacks of oak barrel heads and staves curing outdoors at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess finishing barrel heads at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Hess Cooperage employees cutting quarter sawn pieces of oak into barrel staves and heads at the sawmill behind the cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Two employees of Hess Cooperage, working at their outdoor sawmill behind the cooperage, quarter sawing oak logs to be made into barrel staves and heads wit... |
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