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Making Germination Boxes and Corn Racks

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
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Teachers at Extension Short Course

Date: 1919
Description: A group of men and women are gathered around tables in a classroom during a teachers short course. Some of the teachers are working with various tools, inc...
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Saw Filer and Logging Crew

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Description: Logging crew and horses posed in snow.
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Water Tank on a Sleigh

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Description: Two men standing on a water tank sleigh used for icing logging roads. The sleigh is pulled by four horses. Foreman Mike Baltus stands in the snow at right....
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Carpenters at Work

Date: 1874
Description: Photographic reproduction of a lithograph showing carpenters erecting houses.
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Boys Ready for Day in the Field

Date: 1911
Description: Group of boys outdoors with gardener E.E. Harris. Original caption reads: "Boys of the Onalaska Agricultural School, with rakes and forks, saws and other i...
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Engine-Powered Saw

Date: 10 1923
Description: A man wearing overalls and a cap is using a saw powered by a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to cut wood on International Harvester's Hinsdale expe...
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Interior of Lumber Mill

Date: 1900
Description: Two men using sawing machinery to make boards inside "Big Mill."
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Cutting Logs at a Sawmill

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Description: Elevated view of two men cutting logs at a sawmill. The men stand, one on either side, of a large circular saw, guiding a log through. Piles of cut logs si...
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I.W. Acker

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Description: Tintype portrait (slightly tinted) of Isaac Wagner Acker (left) and an unidentified individual. Acker was born in 1837 in Whetstone, Crawford County, Ohio....
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Devil's Lake CCC Workers Standing at a Saw

Date: 1935
Description: Group of Civilian Conservation Corps workers standing at a table saw. One man, probably a supervisor, wears a hat and tie.
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Logging Camp

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Description: A group of people, presumably loggers and camp employees, pose with horses at a logging camp. A muddy puddle is in the foreground, and behind the group are...
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Bashford Methodist Church

Date: 09 04 1954
Description: A member of Bashford Methodist Church, 15 North Seventh Street, tears down the house at 329 North Street where the new church will be located. Searl Cook i...
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Cream City Sash & Door Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Cream City Sash & Door Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Manufacturers of Glazed Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings & Interior Work," with fo...
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Men Loading Logs onto Truck

Date: 1940
Description: Three men load a pile of logs onto a trailer attached to an International truck in Ontario, Canada. There appears to be a belt-driven saw attached to the s...
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Group in front of Sawmill

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Description: Men posed standing and sitting near the saw blade of an open sawmill.
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Men Sawing Timber

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Description: Men posed sawing timber using a steam-powered open-air saw.
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Men Sawing Timber

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Description: Men posed sawing timber using a steam-powered open-air saw.
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Men Posed by Saw

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Description: Men posed standing around the temporary shelter of a steam-powered open-air saw, probably using a steam tractor for power.

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