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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Completed two-story wood frame main office building at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| Date: | 05 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Men with shovels working downstream from the east abutment, while other men are looking on. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of workmen posing while working on concrete forms at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Their position high above the water level affords an expansive up... |
| Date: | 04 14 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the forms for the east shore abutment at the power dam site. |
| Date: | 05 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers using shovels to level fresh concrete at the base of the chutes from the high trestle. The steam powered pile driver is at work in... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Irrigation ditch with a silo and farm buildings in the background. Original caption reads: "Union Pacific Silo Special Trip; irrigation ditch, Mrs. Carolin... |
| Date: | 05 26 1926 |
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| Description: | A man using a wooden pump to fill a metal pail with water. The photograph was staged to demonstrate a hazard found on farms. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and wide-brimmed hat is emptying water from one pail into another beside a hand-cranked well. The photograph was taken on the John ... |
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| Description: | Men working in field during Wisconsin cranberry harvest. Crates are stacked up throughout the field. |
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| Description: | A group of people, presumably loggers and camp employees, pose with horses at a logging camp. A muddy puddle is in the foreground, and behind the group are... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while in the process of surveying land. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstac... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of a U.S. Army Engineer topographer wearing skis while using a tripod stand to write. The engineer is standing next to a barbed wire obstacle ... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Linoleum cut engraved view of men building a log cabin. One man carries a log in the background near a lake or river, while another man nails a log held in... |
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