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Bethany Orphans' Home

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Description: A view of a group of children getting ready for morning chores at Bethany Orphans' Home. Some boys hold lawn mowers and other yard tools, and the home can ...
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Camp Travis

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Description: A view of soldiers digging trenches, some holding shovels or pickaxes, at Camp Travis, named in 1917.
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United States General Hospital

Date: 1920
Description: View of blind men learning carpentry skills at the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returni...
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Constable Lake Camp Site

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Description: View of four men at Constable Lake Campsite. Three men sit inside a lean-to shelter, and one man stands nearby, holding a pan. Caption reads: "Open Camp at...
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Fixing Dinner at Camp

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Description: View of four girls fixing dinner over a campfire. Two pots hang from a spit over the fire and a girl carries an armful of logs. Behind them, a tent can be ...
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Autopsy Cadaver and Students

Date: 1900
Description: View of an autopsy cadaver around which eight male students are gathered. The photographer was from Black River Falls, probably Charles Van Schaick. This i...
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Man Testing Telegraph Equipment

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Description: A man testing telegraph equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Two Men Repair Typewriters

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Description: Two men are repairing typewriters at a table at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Logging Crew with Cut Wood

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Description: Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks.
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Bernard Arms and Nofsinger Family

Date: 06 03 1929
Description: Bernard Arms is standing high on a scaffold attached to a house, while two women from the family of his neighbors, the Nofsingers, are standing below him o...
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Place's Rapids on the Peshtigo River

Date: 1905
Description: Loggers known as "river pigs" round up stray logs with pikes and peaveys at Place's Rapids.
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Sheet Metal Factory Worker

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Description: A boy (teenager?) works in a sheet metal factory.
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Learning to Shoe Horses

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Description: Men conscripted to learn horseshoeing pose together at the American Express Company. A horse is partially visible on the left side of the image. Rows of ho...
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Learning to Repair Radiators

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Description: View of a group of men in a workshop learning to repair radiators for a war training class.
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Skill and Safety Class

Date: 10 15 1966
Description: Instructor George Finco (right) teaches skill and safety to students Michael Edler (left) and Jeff Zinuticz in the Custer High School foundry.
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Automobile Club Members

Date: 10 10 1966
Description: Four auto club members work on a 1932 Ford Coupe. Rick Burkee (right, foreground) and Robin Friberg work on engine parts as Greg Beaster polishes the car h...
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Workmen with Horses Working on an Excavating Project

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Description: Photographic postcard of workmen and young boys posing with horses and hand tools. They are working on an excavating project near Boscobel.
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Portrait in Wood

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Description: Clam Lake artist Jerry Holter carving a wooden portrait of John A. Lavine, a Wisconsin newspaper publisher.
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Construction of a Paper Mill

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Description: Elevated view of workers during construction of a paper mill.
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Construction Workers

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Description: Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background.

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