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| Description: | Barn raising. The foundation is constructed from local fieldstone or "pudding stone," found in the nearby fields. A large group of men are is posing holdin... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Young children reading at the library. A librarian works near the circulation desk in the background. When it opened in 1938, the Library had a seating cap... |
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| Description: | A scrapbook page containing five photographs of John R. Commons and farm labor. The handwriting in the center reads: "Dale Farm with AL and Windy." Caption... |
| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers, including some boys, threading bolts with heavy machinery in the Nut and Bolt Department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by t... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Gardener Edward Schuetz and four sons posing with his delivery truck loaded with vegetables for market. The truck is not an International model. |
| Date: | 09 09 1940 |
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| Description: | Boy and girl modeling Manchester's Department Store clothes at the Vilas Park drinking fountain. Included in sleeve is a separate negative overlay negative... |
| Date: | 06 16 1933 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Capital Times newspaper carriers. |
| Date: | 06 12 1933 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of Capital Times newspaper carriers. In the background is a church building on the left, and a water tower on the right. |
| Date: | 08 10 1931 |
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| Description: | Eight barbers (S.R. Ashby, E.A. Sorenson, Louis H. Topp, Melvin Byom, Earl G. Carver, Melvin H. Randall, Joseph Fedele, and Claude E. Dyer) cutting hair of... |
| Date: | 08 15 1930 |
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| Description: | Capitol Theatre entrance advertising "Joe Cook Rain or Shine." The doorman is standing at the entrance with a child. 209 State Street. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in a two-wheeled buggy hooked up to zebras, next to a fence near the Ring Barn on the left (which is still standing), with several male spectat... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Man and a boy working with a horse-drawn reaper in a field. The reaper is likely a model or replica of the McCormick reaper of 1831. A windmill is in the b... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | John Parman's Blacksmith, Wagon & Carriage Shop. A large group of men, including workers in leather aprons, are standing with carriages and wagon wheels ou... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A boy and three men are in a field in the foreground with a manual rake reaper and other harvesting tools. Various farmstead buildings, a fence and Lombard... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | In 1845, Ole Wettlesen and his wife Thorbjor and family left Laardal, Telemark, Norway, for America, eventually settling in Dane County. There, Ole establi... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Halle Steensland and his wife Sophia pose with their five children (left to right: Morten, Henry, Edward, Halbert and Helen) in front of their home in Mapl... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | The Sjur Starkson Reque home. From left to right, seated, are Martha Reque, Mari Reque Lee, Brita Reque Quale, Nels Lee and Ole Quale. Standing are Anna Ma... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
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