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| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Two men on a raft that is breaking up are throwing a rope to a man standing on rocks on the riverbank. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a raftsman holding a rope as a second man runs towards the edge of the raft. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer using a McCormick Farmall H tractor in a cornfield near a pond. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator. |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk ceremonial performers posing on the sandy riverbank in front of a steamboat and rock formation. |
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| Description: | Men working on the dam at Munger's Mill. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kilbourn Dam, building apron. Men are working on the dam, and a bridge is in the background. |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men working on the Kilbourn dam. |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett and men posing on bow of "Dell Queen" steamboat. There are two men with violins, one with a harp. |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett and group of men posing on bow of "Dell Queen" steamboat. There are two men with violins, one with a harp. |
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| Description: | H.H. Bennett with camera near Steamboat Rock. There is a man on shore reading, and a woman in a canoe at the edge of the river. |
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| Description: | View down sandy beach towards H.H. Bennett and Ruth Bennett on shore near Sugar Bowl. H.H. Bennett is holding a camera over his shoulder. There is an unide... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Sailors passing cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) from an International truck to a ship docked at Chicago. City skyline in background. |
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| Description: | Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man operating a McCormick horse-drawn grain binder in a field. A tugboat is pulling sailing ships on a body of water in the distance. The photograph appear... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A woman and her dog meet the mail carrier in his delivery boat at the end of a pier on the west shore of Fox Lake. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | An unsuccessful test of Glenn Curtiss' hydroplane in San Diego Bay. The pilot about to be rescued is thought to be Milwaukee's John Kaminski. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Jack Vilas (seated) in the Curtiss hydroplane he used to spot forest fires for the Wisconsin Conservation Department. (His companion is not identified.) Th... |
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