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Children Working In Vegetable Cannery

Date: 1912
Description: Children working in a vegetable cannery as the supervisor with pipe in his mouth stands over them.
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Riverbank Card Game

Date: 1910
Description: Two men smoking pipes and playing cards in the grass along a riverbank.
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Experimental International Harvester Motor Cultivator

Date: 1916
Description: Man with cigar tests an International Harvester experimental motor cultivator in a field.
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Group of Workers Posing on Flat Cars Loaded with Lumber

Date: 09 21 1914
Description: Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ...
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Rodgers' Vin Fiz

Date: 1912
Description: Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i...
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Opening to No. 2 Mine

Date: 12 11 1918
Description: Two men, at least one of them a miner, standing in front of the no. 7 opening to the no. 2 mine. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harve...
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Men Pull Maxwell Automobile on Muddy Road

Date: 02 21 1915
Description: Three men pulling a Maxwell Model 25 touring automobile through a muddy road. Original caption reads: "On the road from Union Springs, and Tuskeegee, Ala.,...
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Peterson Family at Home

Date: 1915
Description: Mr. Peterson is sitting in a rocking chair reading the newspaper and smoking a pipe, while Mrs. Peterson is standing at the stove with their young son, Jam...
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Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
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Group of Men possibly at Taliesin

Date: 1911
Description: Workmen who worked on the construction of Taliesin I gathered in the workroom in front of the fireplace. Taylor Woolley's brother-in-law Clifford (Cliff) E...
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Zinc Mining

Date: 1915
Description: Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin.
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Tall-tale Postcard: Rabbits

Date: 1910
Description: Two hunters stand around a pile of giant rabbits that they have killed in a Wisconsin forest. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. One of the hunters...
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Men with Automobile

Date: 1910
Description: Two men relax in an automobile while another stands by with an oil can in hand, smoking a cigar.
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Constable Rube J. Holcombe

Date: 07 1913
Description: Constable Rube J. Holcombe posing for a photograph while smoking a cigar.
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Two Men Talking at Tractor Exhibit

Date: 1915
Description: Two men standing near a display tent at a tractor exhibition. One man appears to be talking animatedly while the other listens.
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Men Standing on Railroad Car

Date: 04 1911
Description: Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam.
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Workers on Pile Driver

Date: 09 23 1911
Description: Workers standing on the barge-mounted, steam-driven pile driver at work on the coffer dam.
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Captain Dan Angus

Date: 1913
Description: Captain Dan Angus standing on wooden boat dock, smoking a cigar. Dr. Albert Gregory Hull is partially visible on the left. The boat dock is possibly on Dev...
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Mr. Henry Weber

Date: 08 20 1914
Description: Henry Weber, the president of the Park Board rides in an automobile in Lake Park. Caption on glass plate reads: "Mr. Henry Webster [sic], prest. Par...
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Log Cabin

Date: 1914
Description: Log cabin known as the "haunted house" on Rock Island, remodeled by Chester Thordarson. There are three people sitting on the porch.

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