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Young Girls Playing with Dolls

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Description: Six young girls playing with dolls on a porch.
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Family on Wrap-Around Porch

Date: 1873
Description: A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston...
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Boys and Toy Airplane

Date: 1920
Description: Reginald Jackson, Jr., of Madison, holding the toy airplane, and a group of friends, all of whom are wearing short pants, sitting on the windowsill in fron...
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Construction Crew and Observers

Date: 1911
Description: Construction crew and observers standing on a scaffold. Trees, a wooden tripod with a block and tackle and the roof of a house are visible in the backgroun...
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Camp at El Kantara

Date: 1930
Description: The camp at El Kantara, Algeria. In the foreground, members of the expedition are sleeping on pallets, under blankets. Just beyond the sleepers are two tru...
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Girl at a Well

Date: 1927
Description: A Kabyle girl holding a pail at the well, with another pail sitting on the ground at her feet. The well has a stone wall around it with a rope and pulley s...
Postcard

Workmen Build a Stone Wall

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Description: Photographic postcard of three workmen building a stone wall next to a shed.
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Farmstead

Date: 10 2013
Description: View across farmyard towards a silo standing in a corner made by two barn buildings. The barn is made of wood on a stone foundation, and is showing signs o...
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Two Men

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Description: Ferrotype/tintype of a full-length portrait of two men posing with bricks and trowels in front of a painted backdrop. They are standing next to a faux ston...
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Mission School Girls Cleaning Rice

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Description: Ten girls are posing in a walled courtyard sitting on the ground, with plates of rice in front of them. In the foreground is a wooden box and a pail. Capti...
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Dinosaur Entrant for UW Circus

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large costume of a six-legged dinosaur in front of the Armory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Cookhouse or Field Kitchen

Date: 1914
Description: Soldiers are standing around while a cook is working at the outdoor field kitchen on the front during World War I.
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Repairing a Damaged Road

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Description: Repair work on a stone viaduct on a serpentine road on Mount Lovcen that had been damaged by the Montenegrins.
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Foundation

Date: 1905
Description: Two men holding trowels are standing on an improvised scaffold made of wooden kegs and planks while working on a cement block foundation wall. Two other me...
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Barn Raising

Date: 1905
Description: A crowd of men, women and children are posing on the beams and floor of a new barn on the Frank von der Sump farm. The barn has a stone foundation. A porti...
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Barn Raising

Date: 1905
Description: A crowd of men, women and children are posing on the beams and floor of a new barn on the Frank von der Sump farm. The barn has a stone foundation. A porti...

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