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| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Newly constructed office building at construction site, with buggy in attached shed. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon... |
| Date: | 02 08 1913 |
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| Description: | A winter view with workers posing with brush mats at the power dam construction site. The gate guides and high trestle form the background. |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men loading corn stalks into a husker-shredder from a horse-drawn wagon in a snow-covered field. A building with windows near a sloped roof is behind ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | An International C-1 truck is parked along the side of a dirt road while men work on repairing damaged power poles. The original caption reads: "Nos. 109 a... |
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| Description: | Man delivering mail in winter using a sled pulled by two horses. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Mail man driving an International Model M U.S. Mail truck that was part of the Rural Free Delivery service. The truck was equipped with tire chains to driv... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View looking down snow-covered slope towards a horse attached to a small sleigh standing in a trench. At the back of the trench a man is pitching silage fr... |
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| Description: | Group of men posed with 13,260 feet of cut lumber on a horse-drawn sled in winter. Some of the men hold cant hooks. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | View from field of cattle, barn, and silo at an International Harvester demonstration farm. Original caption reads: "IHC silo 20 feet below ground level an... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two men sit at the reins of a horse-drawn United States mail sleigh which ran from Sturgeon Bay to Egg Harbor. Another man is kneeling inside the sleigh ne... |
| Date: | 02 03 1978 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with mail carrier in car putting mail in a mailbox. "Ralph Koll, Rural Mail Carrier. Somewhere in this monstrous snow drift is Helen Moldenha... |
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| Description: | Original woodcut created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. It has three sections and is connected using wood splines. An ... |
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| Description: | Electrotype created for the letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder. A woodcut was created first, the electrotype next, then the letterp... |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Letterpress print of McCormick's Harvester and Self Binder (wire binder). The grain binder is operated by a man seated on the machine and pulled by two hor... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of snow-covered road with two men shoveling snow. A dog is standing in the road near the men. The road is lined with fenced fields and telepho... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of a man on a tractor harrowing a field on a hillside. A road and field run along the left side and a small field and trees appear on the ... |
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