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International Special Delivery Truck on Snowy Street

Date: 1929
Description: International Special Delivery truck on a snowy street in the Midwestern United States. The truck bears a sign that reads "Here it is! The truck that cross...
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Dispersal of Fish

Date: 02 1935
Description: People receiving fish at a relief station in the wintertime.
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Women in the Rain

Date: 1900
Description: Three women in hats and long skirts walk with umbrellas in the rain.
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Farmer on McCormick-Deering Farmall H Tractor with Plow

Date: 1941
Description: Wayne Pattison working the fields of his two-hundred and eighty acre farm with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering No. 7 disc plow. In the backgrou...
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Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Park Gateway

Date: 1899
Description: Third Wisconsin State Capitol (the second in Madison), showing the East Washington Avenue gateway and iron fence. In reality the statues, which were meant ...
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Sledders

Date: 1905
Description: Winter scene with Muriel and Laurie Peterson, the photographer's children, reflecting on the snow conditions near their home. Laurie holds the rope of a sl...
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Sledding

Date: 1914
Description: Laurie, Muriel, and James Peterson, children of the photographer, sledding near the family home. Handwritten on reverse, "Laurie, Muriel, James Peterson, c...
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Canoeing on Rainbow Lake

Date: 1945
Description: Couple canoeing under partly cloudy skies with sun dappling the water on Rainbow Lake, Chain O' Lakes.
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Tractor Running Belt-Driven Thresher

Date: 1914
Description: International Harvester tractor (likely a friction drive) running a belt-driven husker-shredder in the snow-covered yard of a farm.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Parade

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Description: Elevated view of the St. Paul Ice Carnival; royal family equipages in street parade with crowd lining street. There is a real estate agency and a laundry o...
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St. Paul Ice Carnival

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival, bouncing — an instantaneous view. Circle of men in a residential area tossing a person in the air.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Toboggan Slide

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival, Toboggan Slide in Palace Grounds. View looking up track towards people grouped to the side of toboggan tracks, on stairs, and at the...
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St. Paul Ice Carnival, Ice Palace

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Description: The ice palace at the St. Paul Ice Carnival. People are on and around a scaffold in the left foreground carving busts out of ice. Blocks of ice are on the ...
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Mogul 10-20 Tractor on Snow-Covered Street

Date: 1917
Description: Men gathered around an International Harvester Mogul 10-20 HP tractor on a snow-covered city street. A grader is attached to the tractor to plow snow. The ...
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St. Paul Ice Carnival, Instantaneous View of Bouncing

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival. A man being bounced is suspended in the air above a crowd of people. In the background is an ice castle. In the foreground is a hors...
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Elk Team

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Description: A man in an elk-drawn sleigh is posing in front of the ice castle "Borealis" at the St. Paul Ice Carnival. Several people are looking on.
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Storming of Ice Palace by the Grand Army of the Republic

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival. Night view of the storming of the palace by the Grand Army of the Republic.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival, Chamber of Commerce Tent

Date: 02 1886
Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival, view of ice palace. Chamber of Commerce tent in front advertises St. Paul as the geographic center of the continent. Horse-drawn sle...
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Night Scene

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival; Ice Palace at night with tents in foreground.
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St. Paul Ice Carnival Elk Sleigh

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Description: St. Paul Ice Carnival; Elk pulling sleigh outside palace. There is a crowd posing and looking at the camera. A sign on the palace reads: "Borealis."

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