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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... |
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Description: | Two boys of different ages using wood tools, including planes and files, during a classroom exercise. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | A female artist sculpting a female figure from clay. |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | The components of a necklace come together under the skilled hands of a jewelry maker. |
Date: | 1946 |
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Description: | Possibly Louis J. Ropson, a farmer and violin maker from Luxemburg who lived in Dyckesville. |
Date: | 03 27 1945 |
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Description: | Professor J.F. Kienitz, on the left, and Edward J. Law, committee member of the Historic American Buildings Survey in Wisconsin, examining a miniature mode... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Photomontage of two men with a logging crosscut saw cutting a giant ear of corn. A mound of giant corn stands beside them. There is a barn in the backgroun... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Photomontage of a boy using a saw to cut into a giant tomato. A man stands beside the boy, watching. A group of giant tomatoes cover the foreground. The wo... |
Date: | 1913 |
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Description: | Photomontage of a man and a boy pulling the husks off of giant ears of corn. The corn fills the foreground, creeping into the house in the background. Th... |
Date: | 1912 |
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Description: | Photomontage of a man sawing a giant ear of corn as though it was a log. Beside him an ax is wedged in a stump-like piece of corn. A mound of giant ears ... |
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: | 06 14 1950 |
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Description: | Hildur Hanson, receptionist in the "Wisconsin State Journal" editorial rooms, looks over the 25-piece tool kit which will be awarded for the best construct... |
Date: | 08 08 1950 |
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Description: | Paul Hennie, wholesale metal engraver, working on a large trophy in his office at 23 North Pickney Street. |
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... |
Date: | 08 1919 |
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Description: | Two women and one man, probably rural school teachers, are standing outdoors near a work bench, reviewing the blueprints to construct a nail box. |
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