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| 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... |
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| Description: | A man dressed in overalls is holding a spade behind a sweating elephant, waiting for the elephant to defecate. A caption below, very faint, reads: "Let's W... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, railroad workers, fixing the wooden railroad ties. In the background are railroad cars on another set of railroad tracks.m |
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| Description: | Quarter plate ferrotype/tintype of Ancil Rich and his nephew Lamont Brooks Rich. Full-length standing portrait, posed with farming tools. Ancil is holding ... |
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| Description: | Text reads: "A politician buys* Somebody a shovel and then he wants all the credit for digging the Panama Canal. *With your taxes." Three shovels are drawn... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four telephone linemen standing together, three of them wearing pole climbing spikes (or spurs). The man leaning on the pole is Carl Pete... |
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| Description: | Four-fold, copy art birthday card with a photograph of a cat on the front cover, with the caption: "Wishing You 9 Lives." Inside spread of a photograph of ... |
| Date: | 1980 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin professor of plant pathology and forestry Eugene B. Smalley (1926-2002), right, is watching as Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is... |
| Date: | 06 29 1925 |
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| Description: | View through open doorway towards the interior of a repair shop. In the doorway is a rolling cart with brooms, a shovel, and a large, covered metal contain... |
| Date: | 07 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A group of men are using a tractor to prepare a baseball diamond. |
| Date: | 07 03 1926 |
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| Description: | Group of men working on the grounds of a baseball stadium. One man is sitting in a truck which has a painted sign on the side that reads: "D.S.C. City of N... |
| Date: | 07 16 1926 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a work coverall is working on machine parts. In the background is a white backdrop. |
| Date: | 08 07 1926 |
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| Description: | Man standing on truck bed shoveling grain into a hopper. Behind him is a storage building. Another man is standing by machinery on the right. |
| Date: | 08 07 1926 |
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| Description: | Men are standing on and around a truck in the foreground. Three men are standing at the entrance to a small, round storage building, perhaps for storing gr... |
| Date: | 08 13 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in the back of a truck bed shoveling something into a hopper. There is a child looking out of the rear window of the cab. The hopper is a... |
| Date: | 07 20 1927 |
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| Description: | Man standing in horse-drawn wagon loading a horse-drawn manure spreader. There is a silo and barn in the background. |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader in a field. A man is standing in the lime spreader holding a ... |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men are holding with shovels to spread a pile of lime in a field. Behind them is a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader. |
| Date: | 10 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from right rear of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader in a field. A man is standing in the lime spreader holding a ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Austrian soldiers are using the stones of a destroyed factory to repair and improve a roadbed. The walls of the destroyed factory are in the background. |
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