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Bakery Panorama

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Description: Wide angle view of the interior of a bakery, with one man standing by the oven on the right and another man standing near the center between racks of bread...
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Two Sisters Posing

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Description: Salome Bollig and Regina Bollig Deans embrace and smile outdoors in front of a window in a brick wall. They are wearing light-colored dresses and lace-up b...
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Worker with Paint Bucket

Date: 1909
Description: A man dressed in overalls and a button-up shirt standing in the corner of a factory yard in front of a brick wall and a corrugated wall with windows. The m...
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Man with Push Cart at Osborne Works

Date: 07 30 1913
Description: An elderly factory worker dressed in pants, a striped shirt, suspenders and a hat is posing with a large push cart at International Harvester's Osborne Wor...
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Woman on Ladder

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Description: View across yard towards a woman posing sitting halfway up a ladder which is against the porch roof of a brick building. She is holding a kitten on her kne...
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Edna Richards Turner

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Description: Woman posing standing outdoors in the yard of a brick building. She is wearing a light-colored dress, and is identified as Edna Richards Turner.
Postcard

522 First Avenue

Date: 1908
Description: View from the street of three people standing in front of a small house. There is a small Oeil-de-boeuf window in the upper story. The windows have shutter...
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Dinosaur Entrant for UW Circus

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Description: Two men are standing on either side of a large costume of a six-legged dinosaur in front of the Armory on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison...
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Man Wearing Business Suit at McCormick Works

Date: 05 01 1913
Description: Full-length portrait of a man standing on a metal grate in front of a brick wall. A window on the right has a metal grate protecting it.
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Man Wearing Business Suit at McCormick Works

Date: 07 29 1913
Description: Full-length portrait of a man standing in front of a building. The ladder for a fire escape is on the wall behind him.
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Man Wearing Business Suit at McCormick Works

Date: 08 14 1913
Description: Full-length portrait of a man standing on a wooden platoform in front of the brick wall of a building. The ladder for a fire escape is on the wall behind h...
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Grandfather Rumsey on Fourth of July

Date: 07 04 1913
Description: Civil War veteran Captain Israel Parsons Rumsey, the father of the photographer, is sitting on a horse in front of his home. A large American flag, hanging...
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Portrait of a Man

Date: 05 19 1916
Description: Elderly man, in business suit, smiling and posing on stairs near an entrance to a brick factory building.
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Portrait of Elderly Man

Date: 05 31 1918
Description: Portrait of an elderly man standing in a corner of a factory near a window with his hand on a bin in a manufacturing area.

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