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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A workman grinds a cylinder head at Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company, 754 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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| Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
| Date: | 12 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Governor Oscar Rennebohm pushing a load of dirt in a wheelbarrow while helping workmen excavate for a garage to be constructed at the Governor's residence,... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a male grounds keeper operating a horse-drawn mower on the grounds of an estate. A pond with lily pads and a gazebo are in the foreground,... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers produce artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. The convey... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | The state seal of Wisconsin appears in the upper left corner. To the right reads: "Head Quarters 18th Reg. Wis. Vol, Camp Trowbridge, Milwaukee" On t... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Two men are delivering a couch from Mastercraft Furniture Corporation of Omaha, Nebraska to a furniture store. The men are outside carrying the couch towar... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Office of War Information poster, with an illustration of a woman wearing a protective headwrap operating a machine. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across street towards men working on a Works Progress Administration project. Three men are standing and holding a board with a chain attached to it n... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | World War I poster featuring women glass blowers working in a factory with large tongs. Two men are standing by the window in the background, one dressed i... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of crew members standing and sitting on the deck of the ore boat Captain Thomas Wilson in Ashland harbor. |
| Date: | 03 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men in work clothes are bending over a box they are constructing from slab wood near Lake Menomin. There is snow on the ground and a park shelter in th... |
| Date: | 06 09 1936 |
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| Description: | Smoke is rising from piles of burning brush and stumps along a country road. Two men are walking near another pile of brush in the foreground on the right.... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | With shovels in hand, a man, woman, and boy are digging a hole in the ground for a flag pole. One young man is holding the pole in place with two hands. A... |
| Date: | 10 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz... |
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