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| Date: | 03 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men in work clothes are bending over a box they are constructing from slab wood near Lake Menomin. There is snow on the ground and a park shelter in th... |
| Date: | 06 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Smoke is rising from piles of burning brush and stumps along a country road. Two men are walking near another pile of brush in the foreground on the right.... |
| Date: | 04 28 1936 |
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| Description: | A view looking downstream at a recently built concrete dam with four gates. A note on the reverse of the photograph reads: "Dam built by WPA in drainage di... |
| Date: | 07 1940 |
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| Description: | Two well-dressed women are posing next to an automobile parked near the arbor-like gate at the entrance to the Council Grounds State Forest, now the Counci... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View between rows of tables inside the mess hall of Camp Madison. This was the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp created at the Arboretum of the Unive... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A row of trucks are parked in a lot with trees in the background. The caption identifies the trucks as belonging to CCC 2670, the Madison-based 2670th Comp... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | View of several cabins in winter. A path has been cut through snow to the camp. This is Camp Madison, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) camp located at... |
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| Description: | Two men are checking children with stethoscopes, another man is looking into a girl's mouth, and two women are writing in notepads. Other women and many ch... |
| Date: | 01 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Several women are sitting at sewing machines. Caption reads: "Milwaukee, Wis Jan 11, 1935. Women making new and repairing old clothing for relief families.... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "The designs for draperies and wall hangings are cut into linoleum and backed with heavy ply-wood". |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "The material to be printed is stretched over a padded table". Another woman is working at a table in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "The finished block is inked and carefully placed upon the cloth". |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "The imprint is secured by pounding upon the block with a wooden mallet". |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | A woman is printing material stretched over a padded table. Another woman is working at a table in the background. |
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