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Farming Family in Yard

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Description: Portrait of an unidentified farm family in a fenced yard.
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Farming Family in Wagon

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Description: An unidentified farming family sitting in a wagon.
Drawing

Interior of a Cider Mill

Date: 1879
Description: Drawing of a girl sitting on a barrel as a man dumps apples into a press to make cider. Two men manually operate the press at the left.
Photograph

Englehardt Farm

Date: 1905
Description: The manufacture of bricks was begun on this spot sometime in the latter 1860's by Henry Bretag, a German brickmaker, the father of Mrs. Englehardt. Brick ...
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Shell Buyers with Launch and Barge

Date: 1895
Description: Prairie du Chien (vicinity) about 1895-1900. Shell buyers with their launches and barges docked at shoreline. Freshwater clam shells were used in the pearl...
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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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Don't Buy Kohler

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Description: The strike against the Kohler Company, which began in 1954, was one of the longest strikes in American history. Many of the strikers' fellow unionists supp...
Photograph

Rice Shocking

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Description: Group portrait of people posing in a rice field, where they have been shocking the rice. A woman sits in a horse-drawn carriage, and in front of her, a you...
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Harvesting Cotton

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Description: Two children pose near a pile of harvested cotton, location unknown. Nearby, another child stands next to a woman picking cotton.
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Picking Cotton

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Description: A group of agricultural workers in a cotton field near Temple. Two men use a weighing device to weigh a bushel basket full of cotton. Two small children ar...
Photograph

Picking Cotton

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Description: A group of agricultural workers picking cotton in a field.
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In the Cotton Field

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Description: A group of agricultural workers and their children pose with a wagon full of cotton in a cotton field, location unknown. Caption reads: "In The Cotton Fiel...
Photograph

Cotton Workers

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Description: Posed studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of two African American agricultural workers picking cotton, location unknown. A little girl sits in a...
Photograph

Picking Hops

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Description: A group of agricultural workers picking hops. The hops are being put into large wooden baskets. In the center several people are pouring the contents of on...
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Picking Peanuts

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Description: Agricultural workers picking peanuts. Caption reads: "Picking Peanuts In Isle Of Wight, Va."
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Beach and Swimming Pool

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Description: Elevated view down boardwalk toward people swimming and sunbathing on a beach, while others on the right are using a swimming pool located near the boardwa...
Postcard

Street Scene

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Description: Photographic postcard down road toward a building on the right. Signs indicate that the Post Office and Fire Marshall can be found within. Two automobiles ...
Photograph

Gates Birthday Celebration

Date: 1957
Description: Clough Gates, publisher of the "Superior Telegram," cutting a cake to celebrate his 80th birthday. Max Lavine stands in the middle background, and watching...
Photograph

Plumbers and Pipefitters Union Outing

Date: 08 27 1910
Description: A group portrait of members and families of the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipefitting Industry, Local 118. The g...
Photograph

Displaced Persons

Date: 1945
Description: Foreign correspondent Alvin J. Steinkopf saying goodbye to Czechoslovakian children after interviewing them about their relief needs.

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