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Description: | Harry Houdini in chains and ropes. He is tied to a wheel on a locomotive. |
Date: | 03 1945 |
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Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
Date: | 08 25 1967 |
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Description: | Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure. |
Date: | 02 15 1987 |
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Description: | A woman mail carrier pushes her cart with a full mailbag along a sidewalk edged by snowy lawns. |
Date: | 08 30 1965 |
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Description: | Workers are filling orders of ground steak patties by putting them into corrugated boxes layered with parchment divider paper. |
Date: | 11 08 1967 |
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Description: | Teachers protest the lack of a "concrete offer" for a new contract in front of the Milwaukee vocational school. |
Date: | 04 27 1987 |
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Description: | A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather. |
Date: | 09 1980 |
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Description: | View down tracks of a repair crew working on Milwaukee Road tracks, near Rothschild, using a crane to help lift a rail. An unidentified highway bridge over... |
Date: | 04 1948 |
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Description: | As an empty truck is entering the Cudahy Packing Company plant in Kansas City, Kansas, striking United Packinghouse employees threaten the drivers by appea... |
Date: | 01 16 1946 |
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Description: | On the first day of their strike against the Cudahy Company, picketing workers in New York City permit the loading of cartons of ham and bacon for city hos... |
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Description: | A town scene featuring the blacksmith shop and horses. |
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Description: | A harvest scene in which an old-fashioned steam-powered tractor is hooked up to a threshing machine. There is a pile of coal next to the tractor and a tank... |
Date: | 1980 |
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Description: | Farmers work cooperatively with their horse teams on silo-filling activities early in autumn. Rows of green forage are created in the fields and carried to... |
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Description: | Two farm workers in the righthand foreground toss a corn bundle up to the horse-drawn corn shredding machine to be shredded. To the left, a man loads feed ... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle, in a helmet and goggles, poses next to another pilot in front of an airplane. |
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Description: | Dickey Chapelle getting into a small airplane. She is wearing a pilot's helmet, goggles and a scarf, and is carrying a parachute. |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | A young woman takes a photograph of Admiral Van Hook, Secretary Knox, and General Frank Andrews at Coco Solo Submarine Base Officer's Club. |
Date: | 1997 |
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Description: | Hmong farm family selling vegetables on Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square at Madison's Farmer's Market. |
Date: | 1922 |
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Description: | Harry Houdini, the well-known escape artist, was born in Budapest, Hungary and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin. At the time of his immigration his name was s... |
Date: | 1959 |
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Description: | Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve... |
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