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Women's Lunch Room at IHC Osborne Works Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of female workers gathered in the women's lunch room at the International Harvester's Osborne Works twine mill. The factory was owne...
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Printing Twine Bags at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: Workers stitching and printing labels on burlap bags used to store balls of binder twine at International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill. The McCormick w...
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Oscar Mayer Co. Cafeteria

Date: 10 15 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria showing men and women workers in line for food, and sitting at tables.
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Oscar Mayer Co. Cafeteria

Date: 10 15 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria, showing food line in the background on the far left, and workers sitting at tables in the foreground.
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Oscar Mayer Co. Cafeteria

Date: 10 15 1943
Description: Oscar Mayer Company cafeteria, with workers standing in a food line in the background, and in the foreground people sitting at tables.
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House on Bernard Court

Date: 12 19 1936
Description: View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr...
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Madison Cafeteria Interior

Date: 10 30 1935
Description: Interior view of Madison Cafeteria, 215 W. Washington Avenue. There are seven servers behind the counter, and two customers are sitting at tables.
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Rathskeller Inc. Liquor Store Interior

Date: 04 19 1934
Description: Rathskeller Inc., 122 E. Washington Avenue, liquor store interior, framed with arches, with a clerk behind the counter.
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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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West Pullman Works

Date: 1930
Description: Male and female factory workers at West Pullman Works sitting at tables in a large room to work with metal parts.
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Brewing Kettles

Date: 1936
Description: View from above of brewing kettles in the Pabst brewery in Milwaukee. There are workers standing on the ground floor, and in the far background is a large ...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View of a group of construction workers standing on the side of the building on a stack of lumber. They are using a large wooden structure supporting a pul...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: Several construction workers rolling a stone column along supports embedded in the dirt during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: A worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure is chiseling details in the capital of a Corinthian column, at left, while behind him other men are work...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View from street toward the partially completed construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Grand Avenue. A man is standing and wat...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View along side of building toward construction workers moving materials during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Gra...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View looking up toward construction workers on the roof above the columns of the Eau Claire Public Library during its construction. The men are guiding a r...
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Mermaid Tail from "Miranda"

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Description: Two unidentified men are working on a mermaid tail, which will be used in the 1948 film "Miranda." There are columns and other building materials next to t...
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Concrete Block House

Date: 1910
Description: Six men in work clothes posing near a porch of a house under construction. Hollow core concrete blocks, most likely manufactured on site with local sand an...
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Plant Wall Under Construction at McCormick Works

Date: 04 29 1913
Description: Elevated view looking towards a section of an open wall on the upper two floors of a tall building under construction. Men are standing on the flat roof ab...

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