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Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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Description: The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke.
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Gisholt Company Picnic

Date: 08 06 1944
Description: War workers, families and friends of Gisholt Machine Company at the company picnic held at the Blooming Grove Firemen's Park on Monona Drive. There is a ca...
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Tents at Prisoner of War Camp

Date: 07 13 1945
Description: German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery.
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Civilian Conservation Corps Camp Beaver

Date: 11 1933
Description: Winter view of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp Beaver tents with two men in the background. CCC Company 1604 used Camp Beaver as their base camp...
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Ho-Chunk and European-American Group in a Field

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Description: Several Ho-Chunk and European American men, women, and children standing and kneeling in a field. Probably picking cranberries at Gebhardt's nursery. A lar...
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Ho-Chunk Woman in Field with Tents

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Description: A Ho-Chunk woman walking in a field. In the background are several white tents, possibly an encampment for a cranberry harvest.
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Children in Front of Powwow Encampment

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Description: View towards children wearing caps and standing in a field, with tents and awnings in the distance. Possibly a Ho-Chunk powwow encampment. The shadow of a ...
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Woman Operating International A Tractor at Military Base

Date: 1942
Description: A woman uses an International Model A tractor to mow grass on the side of a hill at Camp Pendleton. In the background is an encampment of tents set up at t...
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Camp Pendleton Groundskeeping with International A

Date: 1944
Description: A woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and overalls uses an International Model A tractor to maintain an area of brush at the Camp Pendleton airfield. Tents ar...
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Clam Camp Housing

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Description: Clam camp housing and tents with forest in the background. Four men are sitting on the right, in the center are two women, one standing and one sitting, an...
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Workers Building Stalls

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: Four workers amid construction of food stalls out of plywood a day or two before the beginning of the Sound Storm music festival.
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Workers Constructing Plywood Stalls

Date: 04 23 1970
Description: A group of three young workers amid construction of plywood stalls. There is a station wagon in the background. A few tents are set up on the hill in the b...
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Group Posing in Yard

Date: 1902
Description: Family portrait of a large group of people posed on a lawn. In the background is a tent or open-sided awning. Harry Dankoler, wearing a hat a eyeglasses, i...
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Hot Lunch Sleigh

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Description: Lumber camp cooking crew at the hot lunch sled in the woods. There is a tent set up in the background, and a horse hitched to the sled on the left. Foreman...
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Food Stand at Alfalfa Presentation

Date: 1913
Description: Elevated view of a crowd of people gathered around a booth on Joe Wing's farm to eat during an alfalfa presentation. A sign on the booth reads, "Served by ...
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Picnic Day at Demonstration Farm

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of picnic day on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. Automobiles are parked near a farmhouse and a group is gathered near ...
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Oliver Two Row Plow in Field

Date: 1914
Description: Rear view of an Oliver No.84 two row plow in field. In the background is a building with a sign that says: "1914 Agricultural Hall."
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Gift Cows, U.S. Marine Helicopter Base

Date: 06 1962
Description: Gift cows at the U.S. Marine Helicopter base in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Military and civilian men stand posing in a group in a field. Two of the men hold the r...
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CCC Camp Moquah National Forest

Date: 1934
Description: Elevated view over trees of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) Camp, Moquah National Forest near Washburn, showing two buildings and about twenty-one te...
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C.R. Monroe and N.L. Ellis

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Description: Three photographer's wagons, two owned by C.R. Monroe and the other by N.L. Ellis, in front of tents in the countryside. Two men and a woman are posing sta...

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