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Young Girl with Baskets of Produce in Outdoor Market

Date: 1915
Description: Young girl wrapping or unwrapping produce from baskets on an urban street, possibly in Chicago, Illinois. The girl is likely offering the produce. A boy an...
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Children Toil in Community Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets.
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Woman Pumping Water from Farmhouse Well

Date: 
Description: Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse.
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Woman Throwing Out Wash Water

Date: 1925
Description: Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 06 1923
Description: Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft.
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Russian Women Washing Clothes

Date: 1910
Description: Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy.
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Woman with Axe

Date: 1920
Description: A smiling woman holding an axe holding a pose while chopping wood.
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Betsey Busied by Bossy's Butter

Date: 1905
Description: Woman churning butter.
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Seminole Women Grinding Corn

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Description: A view of two Seminole Native American women grinding corn for "Sofka," a meat stew thickened with vegetables and meal. A man and dog are on the left. Capt...
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Children Clearing Land for New School Playground

Date: 03 13 1915
Description: Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b...
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Convict Laborers

Date: 1915
Description: A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand...
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Laboring in Vegetable Garden

Date: 1908
Description: Group of men and women laboring in a garden among rows of leafy vegetables. There is a farmhouse in the background.
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Construction Crew and Observers

Date: 1911
Description: Construction crew and observers standing on a scaffold. Trees, a wooden tripod with a block and tackle and the roof of a house are visible in the backgroun...
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Home Construction

Date: 
Description: Men posed demolishing one house and building another on the same property, possibly the R.P. Ravey property. Two boys and a girl are posed standing in the ...
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Constructing Brush Dam on Mississippi River

Date: 1900
Description: View across water of men working to construct a brush dam about seven miles north of Cassville. There are two groups of well-dressed people, who appear to ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 394-399

Date: 
Description: In the afternoon, nothing
Overnight, unseen

In the morning, a wooden horse with strangers
sending telegrams for more
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

Date: 
Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
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Group Posed at Barn Raising

Date: 1891
Description: Large group of people posed in, on and around the frame of a barn at a barn raising. A smaller building is in the background on the left. Cultivated fields...
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Reconstruction after the 1911 Flood

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with people walking on a dirt road, and others working at the site. Location identified as the reconstruction following t...
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Klumb Barn Raising

Date: 1899
Description: A large group of men pose on the wooden framework of a barn they're building on Holy Hill Road, which has a stone foundation. On the far right three women ...

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