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| Description: | A crew of farm laborers taking a break from harvesting wheat while a young woman is offering food and drinks. They are posing in front of a reaper with the... |
| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. Shows a courtroom scene framed with a draped American flag and th... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A foldout, illustrated poster for a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth program featuring images of teenaged boys working. The text reads: "The CCC — A... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A group of carpenters pose in front of an unfinished building. The caption reads "Carpenters union donate wages to community fund". |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Artist Robert Thom is seen here working on one of his paintings, this one titled: "The Founding of the United States Pharmacopeia". |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Men working on a wagon truck inside International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. A completed Weber wagon and a large American flag are in the background. T... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce... |
| 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: | 11 20 1933 |
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| Description: | John Hines dismantling one of two out-of-date pumps at the Madison Water Works, 311 N. Hancock Street, a job he obtained through the CWA (Civil Works Admin... |
| Date: | 03 13 1930 |
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| Description: | Franklin School, 305 West Lakeside Street, showing installation of novoid corkboard on the roof. |
| Date: | 07 04 1869 |
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| Description: | The Camilla, a wood-burning locomotive that belonged to the Chicago & Northwestern Railway. The locomotive is decorated for the 4th of July, 1869. |
| Date: | 03 25 1944 |
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| Description: | Wendell Willkie speaking with Ed Mergen, "Wisconsin State Journal" veteran typesetter in charge of page layout, in the composing room during Willkie's 194... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A WPA program on the State Fair Grounds. The workers have dug a long trench, and the project probably concerns improved sanitary facilities for the fair, a... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Hubert H. Humphrey speaking to factory workers through a megaphone from the back of a convertible. |
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