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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: A group of cranberry harvesters at work.
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Beauty Queen Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1947
Description: A young woman dressed in a bathing suit and wading boots poses for a promotional photograph for the Wisconsin cranberry industry at Thunder Lake Marsh. Tw...
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Girl in a Mini-Race Car

Date: 05 02 1956
Description: Father demonstrates controls of a mini-race car as his daughter sits in the car.
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Lindbergh

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Description: Charles A. Lindbergh in a Fokker biplane.
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Schwister's Minnesota-Badger

Date: 1912
Description: John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i...
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Vin Fiz Flies Again?

Date: 05 11 1913
Description: The 1911 Wright Model B rebuilt by Jesse Brabazon of Delavan and his partner-mechanic, Frank Shaffer. Brabazon, who is in the pilot's seat, is about to tak...
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Pilot Behncke and ALPA

Date: 1920
Description: Commercial pilot Dave Behnke, who later headed Airline Pilots Association, signing for a load of airmail. After service as a pilot during World War I, Behn...
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Manitowoc Airport Manager

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Description: Pilot Louis Kakuk, manager of the Manitowoc Airport, with his Waco airplane. Kakuk's career followed a typical pattern for aviators, moving from the freewh...
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Flying Family

Date: 1928
Description: Family portrait, probably taken at Alexander Field in Wausau. Included are an unidentified aviator, his wife, his baby, and a Waco 10 aircraft. Goggles, wh...
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Curtiss Airplane and Glenn Martin

Date: 1909
Description: Glenn Martin, who would become one of the great names in the airplane construction industry, in a Curtiss Pusher during the early days of his career in Cal...
Postcard

Bee Farmer in Field

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Description: A cyanotype postcard of a bee farmer working in his field.
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Montana Cowboys

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Description: View of cowboys loading the chuck wagon on the range in Montana. Caption reads: "Loading the 'Chuck' Wagon."
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Checking Corn Kernels

Date: 1969
Description: Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts.
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Joe Adcock Swinging a Bat

Date: 05 16 1958
Description: Milwaukee Braves first baseman Joe Adcock swinging a bat, possibly in spring training 1958. Known for his power, Adcock had an off year in 1958, hitting 1...
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Lew Burdette at Bat

Date: 06 08 1959
Description: Lew Burdette, pitcher for the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, swinging a bat against the Chicago Cubs on June 8, 1959. Burdette, always known as a good hit...
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African American Family Outdoors

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Description: An African American family, with three children, dressed for cold weather.
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Joe Adcock

Date: 05 16 1958
Description: Joe Adcock in action at Milwaukee Braves spring training.
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Delmar Crandall

Date: 03 27 1957
Description: Portrait of Milwaukee Braves catcher Delmar Crandall at spring training.
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Early P&H 5-Ton Traveling Crane

Date: 1910
Description: Interior view of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger crane design with cab-operated dial controls. The stencil on the crane says "Pawling and Harnischfeger ...
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Casting Aluminum

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Description: Two men casting molten aluminum into slabs by hand at the Mirro Aluminum Company.

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