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Girl at Vegetable Stand

Date: 1917
Description: Girl selling vegetables to a customer at vegetable stand along Milwaukee pike. Original caption reads: "The little girl in charge sold over $800 worth of v...
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Hay Press Inside Farm Building

Date: 1914
Description: Men baling hay with a hay press inside the open door of a barn. One man is weighing a bale in the foreground. Another well-dressed man appears to be a visi...
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Chas. Genge Meat Market

Date: 1911
Description: Exterior view of the meat market. A man wearing a butcher's jacket stands on the porch alongside a platform scale.
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Rhinelander Butcher Shop

Date: 1911
Description: Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter ...
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Cherry Picking

Date: 07 15 1919
Description: An unidentified boy stands and watches as a bushel of cherries is weighed on a scale. There are other baskets and covers on the ground.
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Municipal Market

Date: 1918
Description: Farm produce for sale from farm trucks at the Municipal Market on the Capitol Square. The Municipal market was established by a committee of women in July,...
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Weighing and Measuring Campaign, Lincoln School

Date: 1918
Description: Seven women in white uniforms measuring five children, including one infant. Caption reads: "Lincoln School, Madison, Wis. Weighing and Measuring Campaign ...
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Mackey Wells

Date: 1914
Description: Mackey weighing a large fish near a log cabin. The lake is partially visible in the background on the right.
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Weighing Scale

Date: 04 04 1919
Description: An 8 ounce scale is set up on a cloth covered stand, with a cloth backdrop behind. Additional weights are next to the base.
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Doctor's Office

Date: 03 01 1917
Description: Interior view of a doctor's office. There is a skylight in the ceiling above a table and chairs. Two rooms with doors are in the background.
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Room with Manufacturing Machines

Date: 04 25 1912
Description: Interior view towards a corner of a room with a Buffalo Scale Co. scale along the left wall, and another scale? along the back wall. A large wooden door is...
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Laboratory

Date: 04 24 1912
Description: Interior view of a laboratory. Two stools are set up in front of a bench with drawers along the sides sitting against a wall. Various instruments and glass...

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