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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Paving block cutters at work at the the Montello Granite Company. Two men holding large hammers are posing underneath a tarp which is shading large pieces ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production. |
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| Description: | Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Woman cleaning a wooden floor in an open doorway of her farmhouse with a scrub brush. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 02 17 1916 |
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| Description: | Man standing holding up the front of a wooden cart loaded with metal parts outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 01 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
| Date: | 05 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men pressing garments at Savidusky's Cleaners plant, 827 E. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 26 1933 |
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| Description: | A.H. Hubbell Company workers build a "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining" brick wall around a boiler in the engine room at Arcade Manufacturing C... |
| Date: | 09 26 1933 |
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| Description: | Nine brick layers with supervisor in engine room. Caption on print reads: "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining at Arcade Manufacturing Co., Freepo... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P... |
| Date: | 12 27 1929 |
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| Description: | Four men laying Novoid Corkboard on the roof of the Tenney Building, located at 110 East Main Street. |
| Date: | 12 09 1929 |
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| Description: | Unloading oats at the Stock Pavillon. In front a man is standing on a horse-drawn wagon near a tractor powering a grain elevator. |
| Date: | 09 18 1929 |
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| Description: | Three women working at Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street. The are tamping and boxing incense. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy. |
| Date: | 1859 |
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| Description: | On an excursion to the South in November 1859, Hölzlhuber made the three-day trip on the steamboat Planet from St. Louis to New Orleans. In the harb... |
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