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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
Poster

Testing the First Reaping Machine

Date: 1883
Description: Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc...
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St. Josaphat's Church Construction Workers

Date: 1910
Description: Construction workers are posed in front of the partially-built St. Josaphat's Church on scaffolding and wooden steps near large columns. There are two chil...
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UAW Children's Christmas Party

Date: 1945
Description: Santa Claus surrounded by children at a Christmas Party sponsored by the United Automobile Workers Local 121 of Janesville.
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Senior High School

Date: 1897
Description: Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ...
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J.H. Gilchrist with Granddaughter in Cotton Field

Date: 1915
Description: J.H. Gilchrist, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, eyeglasses, and long coat, is standing in a cotton field on his farm to show his granddaughter, Lelia Sykes, th...
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Man and Child with Binder

Date: 1900
Description: A man wearing a hat and smoking a pipe is raking cut stalks from a binder as a boy is riding a horse pulling the machine across a field. A windmill is stan...
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Machine Shop Workers

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Description: Four men in aprons and a boy stand outside a machine shop.
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Group of People with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1895
Description: A man with his back turned is posing on a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder in a field. On his left are four females, including a woman, one younger woman...
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Group of Men with Hay Stacker

Date: 1895
Description: A large group of men and a boy are working in a field harvesting hay. There is a large pile of hay with a man standing on top of it. Other men are using a ...
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Men and Boys Waving near McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of men and boys waving in a field. One man is operating a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder. Another man and a boy are in a horse-drawn bug...
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Men and Boys Posing with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men and two boys are standing in a field next to a McCormick grain binder. On the right a man in a suit and hat is sitting in a carriage pulled by a ...
Photograph

Group of Men and Young Girl Posing with Grain Binders

Date: 1900
Description: Group portrait of four men and a young girl posing in a field with two horse-drawn McCormick grain binders. Three of the men are standing with their hands ...
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Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Corn

Date: 1900
Description: View down corn rows of field of a large group of men and boys harvesting corn stalks. Several men are filling a wagon. Behind them is a man operating a cor...
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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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Man and Child Working in the Field

Date: 1915
Description: Rear view of young child operating a horse-drawn hay rake while a man is standing nearby.
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Young Child and Bearded Man

Date: 1902
Description: A young girl is sitting on the seat of a farm implement and holding onto reins as an older bearded man is assisting her. The image was likely used as a mod...
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Logging Clean-Up Crew

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Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
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Hotz Family

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses with his wife Clothilde (with glasses), son Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) and one of his daughters on Champagne Rock on Cottage Row.
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Group of People Posing in Front of House

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Description: Group portrait of a man, four women, an infant, three young girls, and a boy in a yard with chickens and cats. In the background on the right is a photogra...

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