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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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Loggers Posing on Railroad Tracks

Date: 1896
Description: Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja...
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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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Two Lumbermen with Saw

Date: 1880
Description: Two lumbermen posing with a two-man crosscut saw they are using on a fallen tree trunk, cutting the pine into manageable sizes for hauling.
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Raftsman's Series Unnumbered : Working a Spanish Windlass

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph view of five men on a raft working a Spanish windlass.
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Logging Crew

Date: 1895
Description: A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent.
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Vegetable Farmer

Date: 1895
Description: A farmer stands in his vegetable field.
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Railroad Crew with Handcar

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Description: Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks.
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Farmworkers Taking a Break

Date: 1913
Description: Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back...
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Moody Price and Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 07 30 1946
Description: Helene Stratman-Thomas, right, Moody Price and three other people.
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Sjur Starkson Reque Home

Date: 1874
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...
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Railroad Crew and Boy on Handcar

Date: 1872
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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Men at Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posing standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. In the foreground one man is sitting on a pile of logs.
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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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Chapelle with Soldiers and Woman

Date: 1958
Description: Dickey Chapelle posing in Cuba with Major Antonio Lusson, and a group of male and female soldiers.
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Ansel Adams Measures Bellows

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams measuring the bellows extension of his camera, to help determine the proper exposure, for a photograph to be made in a wooded area...
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Ansel Adams looking through his Logbook

Date: 1968
Description: Photographer Ansel Adams standing near his 8 x 10 field camera and thumbing through his exposure record logbook in a wooded area near Point Lobos.
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Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams takes exposure notes during a photo shoot at Point Lobos.
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Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams checks the time as he records exposure information into his logbook during a photo shoot. His 8 x 10 field camera is in the background.
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Ansel Adams at Point Lobos

Date: 1968
Description: Ansel Adams adjusts the exposure prior to making a photograph with his 8 x 10 field camera at Point Lobos.

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