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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Housing for employees of logging and lumber operations associated with International Harvester. The housing consists of small one-room shacks in a wooded a... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers standing outdoors in the mud with a steam shovel. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin S... |
| Date: | 05 03 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers building a culvert over Maggard's Branch near mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed i... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b... |
| Date: | 03 29 1919 |
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| Description: | Men building a dock along railroad tracks. The tracks run along a stream or small river. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Young men playing baseball in a park or open field. The men may be employees of the International Harvester Company at a factory or office picnic. |
| Date: | 05 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of employees in front of the McKay Nursery Co. building. |
| Date: | 05 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of employees standing beside nursery stock inside the McKay Nursery warehouse. |
| Date: | 05 07 1937 |
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| Description: | Group of men digging with shovels in the McKay Nursery evergreens field. |
| Date: | 05 07 1937 |
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| Description: | Large group of employees standing beside trucks parked in front of McKay Nursery. |
| Date: | 07 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Group of men sitting on top of railroad flatbed car loaded with culverts. Sign above them reads: "Capital City Culvert Company," 1335 Gilson Street. |
| Date: | 09 25 1929 |
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| Description: | Empire Fuel Company truck, with a man delivering fuel to a house at 1721 Regent Street. |
| Date: | 08 28 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel operators excavate for the construction of the Lake View Tuberculosis Sanitarium boiler house at 1202 Northport Drive. |
| Date: | 08 21 1929 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a Gaspare Tantillo Trucking Company Relay dump truck, unloading in a field. |
| Date: | 05 04 1929 |
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| Description: | Carl E. & Paul G. Roth gravel pit with conveying equipment. |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | Painters working on the cornice of one of the four octagonal towers of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Also visible is the Italianate ornamentation of the iro... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman looks over parts used as bases for miniature Christmas trees. |
| Date: | 08 13 1936 |
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| Description: | African American factory worker in a ragged sweater standing outside International Harvester's Osborne Works (later Auburn Works). |
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