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St. Josaphat's Church under Construction

Date: 1910
Description: St. Josaphat's Church in Milwaukee under construction.
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St. Josaphat's Church Construction Workers

Date: 1910
Description: Construction workers are posed in front of the partially-built St. Josaphat's Church on scaffolding and wooden steps near large columns. There are two chil...
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Mt. Olive Lutheran Church

Date: 09 11 1947
Description: Mt. Olive Lutheran Church, 4018 Mineral Point Road, is shown under construction.
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Mrs. Lathrop Pushing Wheelbarrow

Date: 1910
Description: Mrs. Lathrop, the town post mistress, pushing her wheelbarrow down a long wooden dock at La Pointe. She is on her way to haul merchandise for her store.
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Engineering Building

Date: 1930
Description: Mechanical Engineering Building under construction. A group of construction workers are on the foundation are working near a tower. There is a church steep...
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P&H Concrete Breaker

Date: 04 15 1916
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on a residential street with a operator in the cab. Men are working in the street, and trees and power lines are l...
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Fox River Lock Tender

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ...
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Carson Gulley, Caterer

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Description: Carson Gulley, the well-known University of Wisconsin-Madison chef, serving a catered meal at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society Meeti...
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North First Street Livery

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Description: Jacob Jossi building with man sitting on horse-drawn wagon in open doorway. A buggy is parked in front of G.W. Evans Livery. The steeple of a church buildi...
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Theta Sigma Phi Alumnae Holiday Book Fair

Date: 11 19 1951
Description: Two auctioneers posing with books to be auctioned off at the Theta Sigma Phi alumnae "Holiday Book Fair" that will benefit the professional women in journa...
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Dentist Office and Church

Date: 1900
Description: View from across street of a dentist office and Baptist Church along a road. Two horse-drawn carriages are being driven in opposite directions on the road.
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Community Dinner

Date: 1920
Description: A group of farmers gathered in a rural church for a community dinner.
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Blacksmith Shop

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Description: Exterior view from across road of a man in overalls standing in front of the Dobson Brothers General Blacksmith and Repair Shop. The Methodist Evangelical ...
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Construction Workers

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Description: Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background.
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At Work on the New Episcopal Church

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Description: Photographic postcard view of workers building the new Episcopal Church. Workers in hats and overalls, and holding shovels, are standing among scaffolding,...
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McCormick Grain Binder near Church

Date: 1895
Description: Side view of a man sitting on a McCormick grain binder. Two men are standing in front of the horses, and in the background is a Presbyterian church. The ch...
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Man Operating McCormick Grain Binder near Church

Date: 1900
Description: A man is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field of grain. A small pile of grain is beside him on the ground. A church and another buildi...
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Basley's Good Lumber Company Truck

Date: 1937
Description: A man is loading a piece of lumber onto the back of an International D-2 truck owned by Basley's Good Lumber Company. There appears to be a church steeple ...
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St. James Volunteers

Date: 12 18 1954
Description: Group portrait of twenty men who volunteered their time to help remodel a home at 1129 Mound Street into a new convent for the nuns of St. James' Parish.
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Shoeshine Boys

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Description: Five boys stand on the sidewalk holding their shoe shining tools and supplies. They are wearing work clothes; shirts, knickers, stockings, shoes and caps. ...

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