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Police Firing on Crowd Near McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 05 03 1886
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact...
Photograph

Eau Claire Lumber Company

Date: 1880
Description: The Eau Claire Lumber Company, later the Cutter shoe factory. It was still standing in 1931.
Photograph

Workmen Installing Telephone Poles

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Description: Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team.
Photograph

Husker-Shredder Powered by Engine

Date: 1905
Description: Farmers using a husker-shredder(?) powered by an engine. A man and two children look on from the doorway of a barn. Another man is standing on a horse-draw...
Drawing

Frederick Jackson Turner Drawing

Date: 1924
Description: A hand-drawn cartoon in crayon entitled "Westward The Course Of Empire". It features Frederick Jackson Turner on a rocking horse with a sunset in the backg...
Photograph

Threshing with Engine and Horses

Date: 12 20 1907
Description: Men are working with horses, a threshing machine, a push binder(?) and stationary engine in a field. A group of men and women with a horse-drawn buggy are ...
Photograph

Men on the Movie Set of "Romance of the Reaper"

Date: 1929
Description: A group of eleven men (possibly cast and crew members) gather for a group portrait. The photograph was taken on the set at Walnut Grove of the Fox Hearst f...
Manuscript

First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry Roster

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Description: Commemorative Civil War roster of First Regiment Wisconsin Volunteer Cavalry, Wisconsin Hussars Squadron "G." Depicts "Our Country as it was in 1860" with ...
Photograph

Powered Elevator with Silo

Date: 1916
Description: A farmer with a team of two horses working with an elevator or silo filler near farm buildings and a silo. A Titan stationary engine is powering the elevat...
Photograph

Street Scene

Date: 1910
Description: View down a street featuring storefronts, horse-drawn carriages, and automobiles. The steeple of the First Congregational Church, a Gothic Revival building...
Photograph

Street Scene

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Description: View across intersection down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles and horse-drawn...
Photograph

Street Scene in the Business District

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Description: View down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson in the distance at left, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles, cable cars...
Photograph

Frank Otto Threshing Crew

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Description: A group of farmer workers stand with pitch forks in front of the first gas engine for threshing on the August Krenke farm. A horse-drawn vehicle is also vi...
Photograph

G.M. Breakey Drugs and Groceries

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Description: Group of men, women, children and a dog posing standing in front of G.M. Breakey Drugs and Groceries. One man, perhaps the grocer, is standing in front of ...
Photograph

Ridgewood Depot

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Description: View down railroad platform of crowd of people waiting at the Ridgewood Depot, built in 1916 by architects W.W. Drinker and Frank A. Howard.
Photograph

Blacksmith and Wagon Shop

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Description: View across street towards six men posing, with four of the men wearing aprons and work clothes, and two men in suits holding guns. Beside them on the left...
Photograph

Road Construction Near Barronett

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Description: Four men are posing atop different carts, one of which is hitched to horses, and an engine. Caption reads: "This is me on the engine I worked on this summe...
Postcard

Granite Cutters in Labor Day Parade

Date: 10 24 1913
Description: Text on front reads: "Granite Cutters in Labor Day Parade, Wausau, Wisconsin." Elevated view of a parade on a city street with street car tracks, near an u...
Magazine or Periodical

The Electric Light in Houses

Date: 06 24 1882
Description: Three depictions of men laying electrical tubes in the streets of New York and testing them for insulation. Caption reads: "The Electric Light in Houses— L...

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