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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man stands before the greenhouse on the campus of Woodstock College in Woodstock, Maryland. A religious statue is in front of the building's entrance. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Conservationist and outdoorsman Sigurd F. Olson taking a break from shoveling snow outside his home. |
| Date: | 08 10 1974 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin congressmen David Obey (left) and former congressman Alvin O'Konski breaking ground for a United States Forest Services genetics lab. After the c... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Gaylord Nelson, squatting, and holding a freshly planted tree. He is surrounded by a Burlington County, New Jersey work crew employed in conservation work ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Barn and silo, with horses and farm wagon, and three children in pony buggy. Three men stand near the horse-drawn wagon on the left. The two horses are wea... |
| Date: | 03 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro... |
| Date: | 02 15 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated winter scene with men shoveling out a Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul train about 3.5 miles north of Ripon. The locomotive is in the backg... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a group of men, many holding shovels, standing on the left watching a Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul train pushing through snow, somewher... |
| Date: | 02 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a group of men holding shovels pausing and looking toward the camera. Behind them is a railroad train in deep snow. |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a Wisconsin & Michigan train pushing through snow. Men are shoveling snow in front of it. Smoke is billowing from the front of the train. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Four Native American men posing while clearing land for farming. One man is standing atop a stump which has been pulled from the ground. Another man is hol... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One man is sighting a transit level, and another man is holding a round metal post as a crew of six people "sets a corner" in a Jackson County forest. Ther... |
| Date: | 05 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Actors taking part in a reenactment of a ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claimed the territory of the upper Mississippi River for France at Fort St. Antoi... |
| Date: | 05 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A group of actors, some in Native American clothing, are posing by an Indian lodge. They are participants in a reenactment of a ceremony in which Nicolas P... |
| Date: | 05 08 1927 |
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| Description: | Actors performing in a reenactment of a ceremony in which Nicolas Perrot claimed the territory of the upper Mississippi River for France at Fort St. Antoin... |
| Date: | 05 08 1927 |
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| Description: | Mr. Paulson posing with a group of people outdoors. He is holding a handful of what may be dirt. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View down street towards men clearing snow from a residential street using shovels and horse-drawn wagons. A row of homes is on the left. Further down the ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of excavations of the first Fort Crawford by Leland Cooper. Seven people are working around the trenches. Villa Louis is in the background. |
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