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Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Group portrait of a large logging crew posing outdoors in the snow at their camp in front of a log building. One of the men is playing a fiddle or a violin... |
Date: | 1914 |
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Description: | Three workers pouring molten metal into small containers at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Stereograph of three raftsmen standing in the river, probably on a sandbar, using wooden poles to hold or push against the rafts. |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Factory workers using a pulley to load castings onto a table at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory produced tractors (including Farmall A... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-... |
Date: | 1895 |
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Description: | A Knapp, Stout & Company crew with J. Bracklin (in fur coat), logging superintendent. |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine. |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Farm scene of foreman watching five farm hands reaping grain with cradles as children, women and field hands help gather it into bundles. |
Date: | 1905 |
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Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
Date: | 1942 |
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Description: | Cooks preparing food for fellow workers with Ringling Brothers, Barnum and Bailey Circus. |
Date: | 04 21 1919 |
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Description: | Workers digging an intermediate bin for mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel C... |
Date: | 09 09 1943 |
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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.... |
Date: | 08 04 1933 |
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Description: | Director Tom C. Gannon, (on the right) and Assistant Chef Ed Masury in apron, who is drawing a cup of coffee, standing at the stove in the transient home k... |
Date: | 06 20 1933 |
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Description: | Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery and used to provide... |
Date: | 06 20 1933 |
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Description: | Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was ... |
Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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Description: | Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was... |
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