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| Description: | John L. Lewis, in miner's hat, after West Frankfort, Illinois, mine disaster. |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | The third Wisconsin State Capitol after the unfinished South Wing collapsed on November 8, 1883. Defective workmanship and shoddy construction materials ca... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f... |
| 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: | 11 18 1909 |
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| Description: | Miners building a temporary hoisting apparatus after the November 13, 1909, disaster at Cherry mine in Illinois where 400 men were entombed. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood. |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
| Date: | 05 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Factory workers looking at safety posters on a bulletin board at the McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 11 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of a woman tying a scarf around her head and knotting it under her chin. The photograph is one of a series demonstrating how to use... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men chop wood beside a wooden shed at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. One man raises an axe while steadying a piece of wood with ... |
| Date: | 05 1926 |
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| Description: | A man stands on makeshift scaffolding while hammering a nail into a door awning. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extens... |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A man holding a bundle of logs is opening the screen door on a farmhouse with a deteriorating front porch. |
| Date: | 05 26 1926 |
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| Description: | A man using a wooden pump to fill a metal pail with water. The photograph was staged to demonstrate a hazard found on farms. |
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| Description: | Lee Dunbar holding a testing cup and thermometer to test maple syrup extracted from the vat on top of the wood-burning stove behind him. Smoke is billowing... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the 9/11 Ground Zero site viewing the damage to the World Trade Center. Behind Obey is the World Financial Center co... |
| Date: | 09 2001 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, wearing a blue shirt, is standing in the foreground. Behind him, also in a blue shirt, is Florida Congressman Bill You... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a horse-drawn wagon loaded with lumber standing in front of the frame of building under construction facing Main Street. There is a worker... |
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