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| Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
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| Description: | Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Two businessmen visiting a log drive along the Wisconsin River. They stand atop a log holding peavey hooks. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Sixth plate daguerreotype studio portrait of Augustin Grignon. He is seated, holding a tomahawk. The tomahawk, which could also be used as a pipe, was made... |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, in miner's hat, after West Frankfort, Illinois, mine disaster. |
| Date: | 01 18 1921 |
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| Description: | Worker standing in front of a work bench covered with tools, parts and parts drawings at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as "Auburn Wo... |
| Date: | 03 02 1926 |
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| Description: | Factory employee standing in an office doorway (possibly a gate house?) at International Harvester's Osborne(?) Works. He is wearing eyeglasses, and a swea... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Older factory worker standing among stacks of molds for casting parts. The man most likely worked at International Harvester's Osborne Works. |
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| Description: | Head and shoulders profile portrait of a young John D. Rockefeller, taken around the time he began to make his mark as an oil baron. |
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| Description: | Portrait of Orrin H. Ingram, lumber baron and philanthropist, especially for the development of Ripon College. |
| Date: | 12 11 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men, at least one of them a miner, standing in front of the no. 7 opening to the no. 2 mine. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harve... |
| Date: | 05 09 1938 |
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| Description: | Roy Bergengren and Earl Rentfro holding display of bank cans printed with Phillips 66 labels. |
| Date: | 10 26 1934 |
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| Description: | Governor Albert Schmedeman sitting in a wheelchair smoking a cigarette, following left leg amputation. |
| Date: | 03 21 1934 |
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| Description: | Beatrice Conley, staff director of the Mautz Home Decoration Service, sitting at a desk in her office at 939 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 22 1932 |
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| Description: | Reri (Anne Chevalier), Tahitian star of the Fanchon and Marco "Tahiti" show at the Orpheum Theatre, painting an auto body at Nu-Enamel Paint store, 116 Nor... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Andrew Chippa hired on with Markle & Co., miners of anthracite coal to pay off his father's debt of $54 to the company store since his father's death in th... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Unidentified folk singer sitting on a stack of logs and holding a pipe. Possibly recorded in Waushara County in 1941, where many lumberjacks were recorded. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | John L. Lewis, president of the United Mine Workers of America. |
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