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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder in a field. A young boy is standing near sheaves of wheat piled in the field. In the far distance i... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View along shoreline towards man on horse-drawn McCormick binder leaving a lakefront. |
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| Description: | View across ice towards a group of men, employees of the Conklin Ice House, which is in the distance, guiding horses pulling ice cutters. The horses are we... |
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| Description: | View across ice on Lake Mendota towards men using long poles to maneuver ice up to the conveyor belt to the Conklin Ice House. |
| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle taking photographs on the beach in Milwaukee during Operation Inland Seas. A Navy ship is on Lake Michigan in the background on the left. A... |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | A photographer is crouching on a wooden pier behind a small camera on a tripod to film C.B. (Chandler Burnell) Chapman, a realtor and good friend of Stanle... |
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| Description: | TD-14 in New Zealand bridge construction. Original caption reads: "The Bailey bridge provided access to the incompleted portion of the bank and was built o... |
| Date: | 11 29 1908 |
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| Description: | Men working on pulling the boat "Fish Hawk" out of the water. One man is kneeling in front of the boat and looking at the camera. A man in the background i... |
| Date: | 07 2014 |
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| Description: | View from the top level of Monona Terrace towards the spiral ramp leading to the outdoor parking lot. Just beyond is John Nolen Drive and railroad tracks. ... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a work train on railroad tracks on a railroad bridge, over a river, that is under construction. Several workmen are standing and posing on... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several workmen standing on a platform near the shoreline of the Wisconsin River during construction of a railroad bridge. There is a work... |
| Date: | 08 1911 |
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| Description: | The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake. |
| Date: | 09 18 2014 |
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| Description: | View from a bridge looking down at the shadow of the photographer on the surface of the Sugar River. |
| 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: | 06 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man, on the left, approaching three youths working on the Thunder River. One of the youths is holding a bucket while the others, standin... |
| Date: | 09 1930 |
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| Description: | View across river towards three men in a canoe negotiating the Cedar Rapids of the Flambeau. Large boulders are along the far shoreline. On the reverse of ... |
| Date: | 04 27 1929 |
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| Description: | View of a man sitting in the driver's seat of a Greenwich Transportation Inc. truck parked on a pier. In the background is water and a city on the far shor... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A young man wearing jeans and a t-shirt is handling the luggage as two well-dressed women exit a small seaplane. The pilot is watching from inside the plan... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men on a large raft on the Wisconsin River, with exposed, tree-lined rock formations on the shoreline in the background. Wanigans (shelters)... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | View across water of four men on the baggage raft traveling toward the Island from Apple Tree Landing. Two men, possibly lumberjacks, are rowing. The bagga... |
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