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| Description: | Portrait of Orville Wright inscribed to aviation publicist and historian Harry Bruno, whose collection of papers and photographs is housed at the Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 10 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Captain Harry Dyer, age 80, admiring his model log raft and steam boat in his basement workshop. For 20 years he was a raft boat mate. He left the river in... |
| Date: | 10 30 1909 |
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| Description: | An elderly, bearded man hauls a giant onion using a dolly. The man is wearing a black hat and white work gloves. The background shows the side of a barn.... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Postmistress Mrs. Lathrop poses next to Harold Russell's airplane. This plane was the first to land on Madeline Island. |
| Date: | 11 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles H. Thiede, 2218 Rusk Street, at the controls of a Chicago North Western Railroad steam engine as he starts his last run to Chicago afte... |
| Date: | 04 30 2010 |
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| Description: | Jim Widmer photographing the exterior of The Marsh Inn for his fish fry series. Andy Kraushaar photographed Widmer at work on his documentary project. Krau... |
| Date: | 03 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Herman Skolas sits in a wheelchair while weaving on his loom as his eight-year-old granddaughter, Deborah Culham of Stoughton, looks on approvingly. Skolas... |
| Date: | 11 1995 |
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| Description: | "John Reklau, age 92, was photographed while busily working in his tidy workshop room that once housed his chickens." |
| Date: | 07 30 1913 |
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| Description: | An elderly factory worker dressed in pants, a striped shirt, suspenders and a hat is posing with a large push cart at International Harvester's Osborne Wor... |
| Date: | 08 30 1957 |
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| Description: | While standing on the steps of a passenger car, North Western Railway conductor C.R. Odekirk is preparing for his final run on the Dakota 400. He is retiri... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | An older man is standing in front of three subway advertisements for Levy and Son's Bakery rye bread of New York City. The man is company president Samuel ... |
| Date: | 11 1981 |
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| Description: | Ed Radke gathering corn on land now occupied by the Theresa Library and Highlander Estates. |
| Date: | 08 22 1966 |
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| Description: | Workers, managers, and officials look on as the 4,000,000th truck produced at Springfield Works is celebrated. |
| Date: | 03 27 1912 |
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| Description: | Elderly man posing standing, with his left hand on a delivery cart. Tools are hanging on the wall in the background. |
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