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| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Eight high school students taking a few minutes off from their duties at Oscar Mayer and Company. From left: Kenneth Morrow, East High; Edward Wingen, East... |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Three high school students loading a truck at Gardner Baking Company. From left: Edward Witek, Central High, Russell Kundert, Vocation High, and in the bac... |
| Date: | 09 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Two high school students working at the Quality Service Laundry. From left: Bonnie Warren, and Donna Wolfe, both seniors at West High. These students divid... |
| Date: | 02 27 1934 |
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| Description: | CWA road crew leveling a grade on a county road near Westfield. The CWA undertook many road and utility projects during the Great Depression in order to p... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 02 08 1945 |
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| Description: | An upholsterer at Modern Furniture Shop, 2111-19 Atwood Avenue, restores an antique chaise longue. W.E. Schmidt is the owner of the shop. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park. |
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| Description: | Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man posing on a telephone pole with climbing equipment, with two men standing below. |
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| Description: | Elevated view towards a lineman sitting in a suspended seat, possibly stringing telephone line. There is an automobile parked near a brick building across ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. Men are probably preparing the lot for the hous... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. |
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| Description: | Team of horses powering a winch for moving a house. The winch was anchored to a post in the ground, logs were then placed under the house foundation and re... |
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| Description: | Team of horses powering a winch and moving a frame building. Before the flood of 1911, moving the Express building from the northeast corner of Main and Se... |
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| Description: | Men working at a rock crushing works on the east side of the Black River across from Spaulding's Rocks. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Digging flood ditches on a cranberry marsh near Phillips. |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Several workers standing in a field in Yucatan, Mexico, cutting sisal leaves. The sisal was used by International Harvester to make binder twine. |
| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | A man using a scythe to cut weeds from a pasture of wild carrots. |
| Date: | 12 15 1945 |
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| Description: | "Ole" Odegaard, tire repairman at Edwards Tire Company, 506 University Avenue, re-treading tires. |
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