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| Description: | Portrait of Henry Mathews, 1866-1941, an early African American resident, holding the tools of his trade in front of a painted backdrop. He was a stone mas... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Possibly Louis J. Ropson, a farmer and violin maker from Luxemburg who lived in Dyckesville. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory worker manufacturing wagon wheel hubs at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A factory worker with a wagon wheel at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of a lumberjack wearing a hat, fringed shirt, trousers, suspenders, and what appear to be spiked boots. He is holding a peavey and is posin... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 05 02 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers rebuilding production machinery at International Harvester's "Special Machine Tool Shop." Original caption reads: "All old machine tools co... |
| Date: | 08 1951 |
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| Description: | At Fort Sam Houston students from the Food Service School learn new meat cutting practices so that individual messes can pick up their rations ready for co... |
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| Description: | Men posed standing at the construction site. They are probably laying the foundation of a building. A small wooden building in the background has a poster ... |
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| Description: | Local Unions 154, 182 and 802 posed in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Includes Madison Locals of Brewery Workmen, Carpenters & Joiners, Cigar Makers... |
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| Description: | Color postcard of the carpenter's shop at Stonefield. Carpenters are operating lathes. |
| Date: | 05 11 1938 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of two men using dynamite to break rock. One man is prying at a crevasse with a pole. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A construction worker is chiseling a decorative element on a stone slab during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Gran... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure is chiseling details in the capital of a Corinthian column, at left, while behind him other men are work... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View of a worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure chiseling details in the capitals of what will be the top of the columns of the Eau Claire Publi... |
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| Description: | Satirical ink-on-paper cartoon about corporate culture. It pictures a man holding a wrench in his hand is running on a treadmill attached to a machine with... |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in a blacksmith shop. One man is working at an anvil, the other stands with his hands on his hips. They are wearing leather aprons. Hu... |
| Date: | 06 24 1882 |
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| Description: | Three depictions of men laying electrical tubes in the streets of New York and testing them for insulation. Caption reads: "The Electric Light in Houses— L... |
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