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| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Allen E. Adsit is in the left foreground in this photograph and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated at right. Seen near the house are a wooden rain barrel... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Some men are in a yard sitting and standing with scythe, rake and pitch fork. A woman sits on the front porch of a frame house with shutters, one closed on... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family by wood fence with one child sitting on top of gate; wood house with upper window shutter closed and shutter trim around doorway; trellis by porch. ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Men and boys stand in front of a wagon shop, probably in Edgerton, on Fulton Street. Wagons, wheels, yokes and farm implements surround them. A ramp behind... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Two women and six men are cutting grain or hay using hand tools and horse-drawn implements. Behind them is a frame house. |
| Date: | 08 29 1876 |
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| Description: | The extended family of Aslak Olsen Lie posing before the home he built in 1849 with his brother Ole after immigrating in 1848. The house is a combination o... |
| Date: | 03 24 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of the Grand and Majestic Snowbanks on the Madison and Portage Railroad, listed as one of four views of "15 to 30 ft. high snow-banks" in Dahl... |
| Date: | 01 18 1921 |
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| Description: | A man wearing overalls shaping a piece of metal at a workbench. A variety of hand tools are on the bench and the wall. The man is likely working at Interna... |
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| Description: | Students working in a carpenter shop at the Indian Industrial School. |
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| Description: | Students working in a sloyd room at the Indian Industrial School. A sloyd is a type of wood-carving knife. |
| Date: | 10 30 1946 |
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| Description: | Close-up view from the top of an open stairway construction area showing steps and other materials at the Four Lakes Sports Company. Taken for the Continen... |
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| Description: | Interior of the Leslie Werner Repair Shop. A worker is repairing a violin and there are many bicycle rims and parts in view. |
| Date: | 04 02 1947 |
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| Description: | Winnebago Auto Replacement Company, 103 North Park Street. Interior view showing machine shop with five machinists at work. |
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| Description: | Model of the house John Naset built for himself in the spring of 1865 in Christiana. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks. |
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| Description: | An unidentified mining scene where two men are cranking a windlass, common only in early lead and zinc mining in southwest Wisconsin. The windlass was used... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Barrel making tools and cattails, use for cauking barrels, at the Hess Cooperage. |
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