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Drawing

Barman — Tom

Date: 1932
Description: Tom bartending at Sam's.
Photograph

Farmer Milking Cow

Date: 03 1924
Description: Man sitting on a crate milking a cow by hand inside a barn on the farm of Hal Ament.
Photograph

Navy Cooks and Bakers Group

Date: 09 09 1943
Description: Ten Navy cooks and bakers watching meat carving demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. Soldiers include Robert W. Merryman, Vernon R....
Photograph

Steam Locomotive Used at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery and used to provide...
Photograph

Steam Locomotive at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was ...
Photograph

Toledo Scale

Date: 05 20 1928
Description: A man weighing a large container on a Toledo platform scale at the Federation Creamery.
Photograph

Veteran Butcher

Date: 09 08 1956
Description: Butcher Herman Nimmer positions his hand saw to cut a slab of meat.
Photograph

Chef Frosting a Cake

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Otto Wiedholz, Vienna French Pastry Shop, 334 State Street, frosting a cake. Otto and his wife, Elsie, 414 Chestnut Street, are the owners of the pastry sh...
Photograph

Boiling Vats at Sugar Mill

Date: 1915
Description: Workers standing beside boiling vats at a sugar mill where the sap is boiled and made into sorghum molasses.
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Onion Mound

Date: 1909
Description: Photomontage of several farmers working to lift a giant onion onto the flatbed horse-drawn cart. Beside them is a giant mound of onions with a ladder leani...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Slicing Tomatoes

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a boy using a saw to cut into a giant tomato. A man stands beside the boy, watching. A group of giant tomatoes cover the foreground. The wo...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Green Corn

Date: 1913
Description: Photomontage of a man and a boy pulling the husks off of giant ears of corn. The corn fills the foreground, creeping into the house in the background. Th...
Photograph

Tall-tale Postcard: Beating the Coal Trust

Date: 1912
Description: Photomontage of a man sawing a giant ear of corn as though it was a log. Beside him an ax is wedged in a stump-like piece of corn. A mound of giant ears ...
Photograph

Madison Dairy Laboratory

Date: 01 09 1946
Description: Two men performing a test in a laboratory at the Madison Dairy, 1018 East Washington Avenue.
Photograph

New Coca Cola Building

Date: 10 17 1948
Description: Construction of the Coca Cola building at 3536 University Avenue.
Photograph

An Early P&H Hoist Crane in Brewery

Date: 
Description: Interior view of Pawling & Harnischfeger hoist cranes in a Schlitz brewery where men are working with beer barrels.
Photograph

International Truck in Orchard

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Men load boxes of fruit, possibly oranges or grapefruit, into an International Model C-35 truck owned by the Clearwater Growers Association. Men using ladd...
Photograph

Military Meat

Date: 08 1951
Description: At Fort Sam Houston students from the Food Service School learn new meat cutting practices so that individual messes can pick up their rations ready for co...
Photograph

Picking Oranges

Date: 
Description: A group of agricultural workers picking oranges in an orchard. Several men are on ladders picking fruit, while other men pose on the ground. A horse-drawn ...
Photograph

Apple Orchard

Date: 
Description: A view of several men, two children, and a horse in an apple orchard in Ontario County. Caption reads: "An Ontario County Apple Orchard, Phelps, N.Y."

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