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| 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... |
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| Description: | Fire fighters work to put out a fire in a four-story building on a city block. In front of a fire hose spraying water, a photographer is kneeling in front ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View down Bascom Hill of Science Hall (1876-1884) in the process of being demolished. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Two women using McCormick-Deering relief tractors in a field damaged by the "tri-state tornado." The tractors appear to be 10-20s. |
| Date: | 04 01 1925 |
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| Description: | A man using a McCormick-Deering relief tractor to work in a field affected by the "tri-state tornado." The tractor appears to be a 10-20. |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | A man sitting on a McCormick-Deering tractor in a field. Buildings damaged by the "tri-state tornado" are in the background. The tractor appears to be a 1... |
| Date: | 04 15 1925 |
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| Description: | Boys using hand tools to work in a field. A mule-drawn wagon is in the background. They are all wearing hats and overalls. |
| Date: | 09 26 1949 |
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| Description: | Three women, employees of Oscar Mayer Company, present gifts to co-worker Irene Loveland who lost her home and personal possessions in a fire. Left to righ... |
| Date: | 09 26 |
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| Description: | Three women, employees of Oscar Mayer Company, hand gifts to co-worker Irene Loveland, who lost her home and personal possessions in a fire. Left to right... |
| Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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| Description: | State Journal photographer Arthur M. Vinje, camera in hand, arrives at the scene of the fire at the Pyramid Motor Company, 434 West Gilman Street, to take ... |
| Date: | 03 02 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Calvin Beverly, age 40, of 807 Mound Street. Beverly was one of seven employees of the Pyramid Motor Company, located at 434 West Gilman Street... |
| Date: | 03 20 1951 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Catherine Coffey at St. Mary's hospital, 720 South Brooks Street, where she lives and works as a dietary helper. The Dane County Red Cross was respons... |
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| Description: | A view of the station and an outbuilding. A man stands in front of the building. Caption reads: "Ditch Plain Life Saving Station, Montauk, L.I., N.Y." |
| 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: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A farmer is standing on the edge of a wooden wagon pitching hay into a running thresher, demonstrating an unsafe operating position. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | John Esch, sitting behind the wheel of an automobile, adjusting his eyeglasses while smoking a tobacco pipe. Photograph taken for International Harvester's... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man driving a team of four horses while standing on the front standard of a wagon loaded with what appears to be hay. Photograph taken for International ... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man holding a metal instrument approaching a tree stump to inspect why a dynamite blast did not go off. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man unhitches horses from a wagon. Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Department to illustrate the dangers of leaving one tug un... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is reaching into the moving packer arms of a grain binder, while another man is driving a team of horses pulling the machinery across a field at the ... |
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