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Loggers Posing on Railroad Tracks

Date: 1896
Description: Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja...
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Logging Camp Crew

Date: 1875
Description: Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin...
Poster

Deering Grain Binder Advertising Poster

Date: 1883
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration for the Deering All-Steel Binder with steel bundle carrier, produced by William Deering & Co. Includes an illustration ...
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Future Drafters

Date: 10 16 1965
Description: High school boys in an industrial drafting class using drafting machines and compasses.
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Bicycle Repair

Date: 05 23 1957
Description: Three young men repair a bicycle.
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School Boys Making the Frame of a Fly Trap

Date: 1913
Description: Two boys at work indoors constructing the wooden frame of a fly trap at their school.
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Farm Family Posing in Yard of Home with Horse-Drawn Mower

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Description: Farm family posing around a house and yard, with the patriarch sitting in the seat of a mower behind two horses.
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Indian Sugar Camp

Date: 1850
Description: Chippewa Indian Sugar Camp. Plate 61, preceding p. 199, vol. I, The Indian tribes of the United States: their history antiquities, customs, religion, ar...
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Farm Family with Implements

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Description: A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ...
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Construction of Retaining Wall

Date: 04 05 1919
Description: Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre...
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Wrecked Packard Sedan

Date: 01 02 1939
Description: Close-up of wrecked Packard sedan in garage.
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Roofer on Roof

Date: 05 10 1935
Description: View looking up towards a man laying new shingles on the roof of a house at 341 West Wilson Street.
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Telephone Exchange Switchboard

Date: 08 14 1946
Description: Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background ...
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Menominee Child

Date: 1909
Description: A Menominee child, probably photographed on the reservation near Keshena and Neopit, Wisconsin. He is standing outside in front of a log cabin, and an axe ...
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Family Farm House

Date: 1879
Description: Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o...
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Ice Shanty on Sturgeon Bay

Date: 1898
Description: A boy dressed in knickers clears the ice in preparation to fish next to his family's ice shanty.
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Farmall Tractors, Combines and Trucks

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Description: Elevated view of men sitting and working among Farmall tractors, combines (harvester-threshers) and trucks, possibly outside an International Harvester dea...
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Barn Raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's Home

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Description: Barn raising at Lars Davidsen Reque's home. Crew members can be seen mortising freshly hewn timbers with a hand-operated boring machine. Men are also seen ...
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Family of Seven in front of House

Date: 1878
Description: A family of seven is sitting in the foreground around a table covered with books and flowers. Three young girls are sitting on the ground in front of the t...
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Second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie Parsonage

Date: 1869
Description: This is the second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie parsonage. Four men in the foreground pose with rakes and tools. One man sights along a shotgun. Oth...

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