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Salting Ice-Covered Steps

Date: 03 11 1926
Description: A man uses salt from a metal pail to cover ice-covered steps to the farmhouse at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Man Climbing Ladder

Date: 03 11 1926
Description: A man climbing a wooden ladder placed on snow-covered ground. The ladder is leaning against a barn at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Man with Scrap Heap

Date: 03 1926
Description: A man is looking through a scrap heap full of metal and wooden parts piled beside a shed or barn.
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Rotten Well Covering

Date: 03 1926
Description: A child sits on a rotten wooden well covering while playing in the mud with a piece of metal and holding a can marked "Salted Pecans." An automobile is in ...
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Rotten Well Covering

Date: 03 1926
Description: A rotting and broken wooden well covering around a well pump near a field.
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Refuse Pile

Date: 03 1926
Description: A refuse pile consisting of glass, a broken basket, bottles, cans, and other items behind a farmhouse. A crumbling foundation is in the background.
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Child with Wagon Box

Date: 03 1926
Description: A child wearing a coat and hat is standing in a toy wagon marked "Lightning Coaster" beside a wagon box propped on wooden stakes. A flock of geese is in th...
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Leaning Shed

Date: 03 1926
Description: A collapsing shed housing various pieces of farm machinery and wagons.
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Leaning Shed

Date: 03 1926
Description: Exterior view of a deteriorating wooden shed surrounded by an animal shelter, farm equipment, and other farm buildings. The painted sign on the shed reads:...
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Man Exiting Barn

Date: 1926
Description: A man holding a metal pail in each hand ducks as he is exiting a low barn door. Snow and ice are just outside the door.
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Farm Refuse in Attic

Date: 1926
Description: Close-up view of a pile of garbage in a farmhouse attic consisting of metal pieces, pipes, machine parts, and other items.
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Madison Bicycle Safety Week Parade

Date: 07 22 1952
Description: Fourteen-year old Darlene Kripps, center, is the winner of the award for best costume and decorated bike in the Bicycle Safety Week parade. Standing at her...
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Madison Bicycle Safety Week Parade

Date: 07 22 1952
Description: Ten-year-old David Paepke, Sauk City, is pictured with the new Sears Roebuck and Company bicycle he won in the Madison Bicycle Safety Week slogan competiti...
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Madison Public School Safety Program

Date: 09 05 1952
Description: Safety was the topic of discussion when Captain Walter Thompson, of the city police traffic bureau (seated at center) met with safety patrol members from f...
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Murals in Junior Red Cross Assembly Room

Date: 06 08 1953
Description: Water safety accident prevention and first aid are the themes of the mural being completed by East Junior High School pupils for the east wall of the Junio...
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Driver Education Dual Control Car

Date: 07 02 1953
Description: Seated in a dual control car used for driver education classes are, from left: Milt Diehl, instructor, and East High students, Bruce Schmidt and John Fillh...
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AAA School Safety Program

Date: 08 31 1953
Description: Stuart B. Wright, AAA general Manager, presents school safety signs to Mayor George Forster, Supt. of Schools Philip H. Falk, and Police Chief Bruce Weathe...
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Farm Hazard

Date: 10 1926
Description: A man wearing overalls and work gloves is reaching through a moving tractor belt on Yeoman Farm to demonstrate a farm hazard. A barn is in the background.
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Putting Belt on Pulley

Date: 1926
Description: A man putting a tractor belt on a pulley while the machine is in operation, demonstrating a farm hazard. Taken at International Harvester's Hinsdale experi...
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Danger of Silage Cutter

Date: 1926
Description: A man is working on silage cutter knives while the machine is in operation, demonstrating a farm hazard.

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