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| Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
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| Description: | Studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a butcher wearing an apron, and holding a cleaver and saw. |
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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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a lumberjack wearing a hat, fringed shirt, trousers, suspenders, and what appear to be spiked boots. He is holding a peavey and is posin... |
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| Description: | Two unidentified white men, dressed as lumberjacks, sit on a wood log in Van Schaick's studio, drinking, smoking and playing cards, with a saw and an axe n... |
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| Description: | Cranberry harvesters at work. Mural painting in the U.S. Post Office at Berlin, Wis. |
| Date: | 07 22 1964 |
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| Description: | A painter is working on a wall in the State Capitol during the process of redecorating. Over a four-year period that started in 1961 the state Building Com... |
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| Description: | Ferrotype/tintype of a full-length portrait of two men posing with bricks and trowels in front of a painted backdrop. They are standing next to a faux ston... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a railroad employee standing on a handcar on the tracks painting the surface of a "tunnel" with a brush. Another man is looking at him with a ha... |
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