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| Description: | Elevated view from bluff overlooking the railroad tracks and yard along the Mississippi River. A group of men are gathered on the track near stacks of lumb... |
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| Description: | A female model poses in profile while leaning back against rocks. She is wearing a black bathing suit and knee-high stockings. In the background is a lake ... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View down riverbank towards dam of a river around Wausau. Two men and a limber (two-wheeled cart) are near the rivers edge. A man, perhaps a construction w... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View towards shoreline of log drivers eating lunch on the edge of the riverbank. Visiting businessmen share a meal with the log drivers who are sitting and... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| 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... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face and a track, with a river on the left. Identified as probably the ... |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards a group of men standing near and on a rock face an a cliff above a river. Identified as probably the quarry connected t... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face with two sets of small railroad tracks behind them. Identified as probably the quar... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Front page of booklet with an engraving of a man with a team of two horses in a field with the "Celebrated Gorham Sulky Cultivator." |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | View looking towards men working on a construction site. Identified as the construction of the bulkhead for the powerhouse in 1908. There are men standing ... |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of the construction of a large building on top of a dam. Location identified as the construction of the powerhouse on the canal in Hatfield. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View of a steam dredge at the construction site of a dam on a river. Identified as the construction of the Hatfield dam in 1907. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from China, Carrie Chapman Catt describes the rice plantations. All of the workers and their families lived on the compound and worked long ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide of workers in a rice field planting rice. Carrie Chapman Catt described the conditions of rice plantations in her journal from h... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the newly constructed trestle bridge outside of Cape Town, South Africa. |
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| Description: | A man stands near an ice harvesting machine on a lake. A label on the machine reads: "Wisconsin." There is open water behind him, and in the far background... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men are working in a field near a man using a horse-drawn McCormick binder. People are watching at the edge of the field in the background. On a hill above... |
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| Description: | View looking down hill towards a Department of Natural Resources employee standing under a tree which is overlooking Pike Lake State Park. Pike Lake is in ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| 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 ... |
| 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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