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Date: | 1884 |
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Description: | View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large... |
Date: | 1870 |
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Description: | Elevated view of lumber raft and workers on the Chippewa River. In the background on the right are dwellings. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
Date: | 1898 |
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Description: | A man, his wife and their two children are posing in front of their farmstead. The man is holding a team of horses. Another horse pulling a buggy is in the... |
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Description: | Brewery wagons loaded with beer barrels in foreground of the Potosi Brewery. |
Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
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Description: | Aldo Leopold, UW Professor of Wildlife Management, posing with binoculars around his neck. He is about to embark on an inspection and bird-watching tour of... |
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Description: | Two lumberjacks pose at the base of a tree with a double-handled saw poised to cut. |
Date: | 1880 |
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Description: | Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling. |
Date: | 1901 |
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Description: | A crew of construction workers paving North Main Street with brick. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | View from a distance of a farm in a valley owned by Alex(ander?) Smith. There is a wooden fence in the foreground surrounding the farm. |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Workmen stand atop and in front of the remnants of the last remaining wing, the North Wing, of the third Wisconsin State Capitol building. |
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Description: | Lumber workers laying railroad tracks through the woods. |
Date: | 1872 |
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Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
Date: | 1882 |
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Description: | View across railroad tracks of two men posing near the right side of locomotive no. 539 on another set of railroad tracks. The locomotive was built by the ... |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
Date: | 10 1869 |
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Description: | The second Wisconsin State Capitol dome under construction, showing the workmen and the equipment they used to hoist construction materials into place. |
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