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| Date: | 11 04 1909 |
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| Description: | Color postcard depicting Arthur Pratt Warner of Beloit flying his Curtiss Pusher for the first time, November 4, 1909. Warner was the first person in Wisco... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom... |
| Date: | 07 07 1983 |
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| Description: | John Fitzsimmons and Barton Voegeli take a break from discing the fields to eat the birthday cake that Voegeli's wife made to celebrate the occasion. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Colorized view of the Chicago & Northwestern Railway Depot at Beloit. Caption reads: "C. & N. W. Depot, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 04 17 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of the First National Bank of Edgerton, with customers and tellers in cages. |
| Date: | 04 17 1931 |
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| Description: | First National Bank of Edgerton officers, who witnessed robbery, posing and standing outdoors in front of the bank. |
| Date: | 01 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Man using a Toledo scale at the Mernick Dairy. |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | George W. Hall, Jr., noted Evansville, Wisconsin, circus performer, as a young boy, holding a snake and wearing copper-toed boots. |
| Date: | 10 16 1952 |
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| Description: | A worker is using a machine to cut metal strips for fountain pen nibs at the Parker Pen factory. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group of men, women and children gathered in a hops field, possibly that of Paul Saavles. The women are wearing hoods. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the post office. Caption reads: "Post-Office, Janesville, Wis." |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Workers in the Parker Pen Screw Machine Department. |
| Date: | 1987 |
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| Description: | Employees of the General Motors plant in head to work. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Santa Claus surrounded by children at a Christmas Party sponsored by the United Automobile Workers Local 121 of Janesville. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | A man using an International Harvester No. 1 Hammer Mill on the farm of Herman Wilke. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Robert Romley uses a steel husker and shredder near a silo and barn on his farm. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Men use a Farmall tractor and a steel husker-shredder(?) on the farm of Robert Rawley. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Partial removal of railroad bridge over Rock River. A train is on a section not being removed in order to transport men and materials. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Miss Zelma Purchase, of the Home Economics Department at International Harvester's Evansville Works, sits at a table with folded hands. |
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