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Solomon Juneau House Marker

Date: 06 05 1997
Description: "On this date, the Solomon Juneau House marker is erected. The marker program was started in 1952 and now numbers 347 markers throughout the state, with si...
Photograph

Robert Doyle in Brest

Date: 09 18 1944
Description: Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two...
Drawing

Process of Excavation, Lockport

Date: 1825
Description: Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri...
Postcard

Workmen Build a Stone Wall

Date: 
Description: Photographic postcard of three workmen building a stone wall next to a shed.
Photograph

Barn Raising

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Description: Barn raising, showing the stone foundation and timbers stacked in a pile in the foreground. A smaller building is on the left behind the tower support for ...
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Signal Point Stone Wall Under Construction

Date: 1936
Description: Four men are building the wall at Signal Point Lookout in Wyalusing State Park. They are part of Works Progress Administration (WPA) Project #8656-8. Th...
Book or Pamphlet

P&O Charrues Canton

Date: 1919
Description: Catalog cover featuring an illustration of a man on a plow using a team of horses to work in a field. A large building is in the background.
Photograph

Frank Zetzman in Performance

Date: 1983
Description: Artist Frank Zetzman, sitting on a stone wall and wearing a head sculpture created from native vegetation for a grant-funded on-site performance piece conc...
Photograph

Barn Raising

Date: 1895
Description: A large group of men pose on the wooden framework of a barn that they are building.
Photograph

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 ...
Photograph

Laying Stone Foundation

Date: 1931
Description: Group of men laying the stone foundation for the new barn on the Krueger farm. A pile of large stones is in front of the new stone foundation.
Photograph

People Working in a Field

Date: 1910
Description: People working in a field. Beside them is a basket full of a type of food.
Photograph

Manila Plantation

Date: 1900
Description: View across field towards a group of people posing in front of a stone wall at a Manila plantation at the edge of a field with horses.
Photograph

Road and Stone Wall

Date: 1900
Description: View across road towards stone walls, with a gate, which run along the road, and through a field towards the left. A man is using a horse-drawn plow in the...
Photograph

Man on Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: View down harvested field towards a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. Shocks of grain are piled near the stone fence running along the left side of...
Photograph

D-300 M.T. with 6 Yard Body

Date: 1940
Description: Two men, one in the driver's seat of the D-300 M.T. truck, and the other carrying a metal trash bin, on a residential street. The truck is used by the Refu...
Postcard

Menasha Paper Co.'s Office

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Description: The office building for the Ladysmith branch of Menasha Paper Co. Caption reads: "Menasha Paper Co.'s Office, Ladysmith, Wis."
Photograph

Building the Bathhouse

Date: 1935
Description: Men wearing hats and long overcoats are walking toward the camera from the bathhouse at Devil's Lake State Park. Other men in work clothes, members of the ...
Photograph

Wheels in Storage Area of Factory

Date: 05 19 1922
Description: Wheels are stacked on the floor and on wood shelves. A flight of steps in the background is rising up to another story. Men (blurred from movement) are wor...
Photograph

New Pines Restaurant

Date: 07 28 1954
Description: Two African American cooks standing by a stone hearth in the kitchen at the New Pines restaurant located at 2413 Parmenter Street. One of the cooks might ...

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