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| Date: | 09 28 1931 |
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| Description: | Farmer Charles Nelson, carries a pail in front of the door to his barn. His 245 acre farm was southwest of Lake Wingra near Madison. It became the first pr... |
| Date: | 04 03 1929 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles H. Seals, janitor at the Security State Bank, 1965 Atwood Avenue. He is standing next to a rubber tree plant and is cleaning the table. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga... |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | With all Hillsboro striving to honor Vice-Admiral March A. Mitscher, who came for a visit with his mother, Bessie Hooker, a maid in the Mr. and Mrs. Lyle H... |
| Date: | 07 05 1945 |
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| Description: | Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of... |
| Date: | 08 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Jonas Staley, 1510 Jenifer Street, a 73-year-old man who enjoyed working outdoors in hot weather. He is shown putting in a sewer at 4226 Beverly Road. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A farmer, standing near a barn and pitchfork for a portrait. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Chef Carson Gulley, University of Wisconsin-Madison residence hall chef, chopping vegetables. |
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| Description: | Portrait of a farmer standing outside of a wooden structure. |
| Date: | 10 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Taylor is relaxing, sitting in a chair tilted back, and smoking his pipe and reading his paper in front of an open heater. A kerchief is covering his head.... |
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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 ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men posing at a construction site with an International stationary engine and concrete mixer. One of the men is wearing a work apron from Botsford Lumb... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Sauk City author August Derleth sitting in a wing back chair near a fireplace in his home, "The Place of Hawks." |
| Date: | 05 16 1952 |
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| Description: | William "Bill" Hellman, chef on the Northwestern Railroad's Madison-Chicago passenger run, on the train as he is preparing his last meal for the railroad a... |
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| Description: | Dr. Earl Lockman, a well-known escape artist, and his handcuff collection. |
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| Description: | Tintype portrait (slightly tinted) of Isaac Wagner Acker (left) and an unidentified individual. Acker was born in 1837 in Whetstone, Crawford County, Ohio.... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a butcher shop, with a male butcher sharpening a knife behind a counter lined with cuts of meat, sausages and a scale. Behind the counter ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A factory worker is sitting on a cart on at International Harvester's Osborne Works. Behind him are stacked pieces of lumber. Hooks hang from the ceiling. ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An elderly factory worker is standing in a dusty room holding a large pole at International Harvester's Osborne Works. He is dressed in dark work pants, a ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in overalls and a button-up shirt standing in the corner of a factory yard in front of a brick wall and a corrugated wall with windows. The m... |
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