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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
| Date: | 01 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of two men standing on a snowy street with the Wisconsin State Capitol visible in the background. They are holding snow shovels. |
| Date: | 01 13 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of State Historical Society of Wisconsin, under construction, showing the first floor of building, with Music Hall in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 08 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Jonas Staley, 1510 Jenifer Street, a 73-year-old man who enjoyed working outdoors in hot weather. He is shown putting in a sewer at 4226 Beverly Road. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A crew of men standing with a wagon and a husker-shredder near a barn. A sixth man in a dark coat and hat is standing under the ladder leaning against the ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Six men are standing by a husker-shredder, wagon, and two horses in a farm yard. A tractor, possibly a Mogul 8-16 is on the right. Barns and farm buildings... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men are working with a husker-shredder, one moving corn from a wagon, the other feeding them into the machine. Two other men are at a wagon on the righ... |
| Date: | 01 12 1916 |
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| Description: | Men feed corn from two wagons into a husker shredder near a barn in a snow-covered farm yard. Original caption states: "Owned and operated by Wm. Stiver &... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the Pacific Railway's route from New York to California, encouraging people to "Go and See the Great American Pa... |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered ground toward a man posing on top of a stack of logs while holding the reins of the horses who are pulling. In the background are ... |
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| Description: | A view of a steam hauler pulling logs across ice on sleds. Four men are posing, with one man sticking his head out of a window of the hauler; one man is s... |
| Date: | 12 11 1983 |
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| Description: | Delmer Staus of Waukesha County shoveling contents of one of his cow barns into a manure spreader. |
| Date: | 1884 |
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| Description: | The logging camp of Bruno Vinett. About a dozen horses, most in harness, and a similar number of men stand in front of a barn-like building and a small woo... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Five men stand on or nearby a sled loaded with logs and pulled by two horses at the landing at Hein's logging camp. There is snow on the ground. |
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| Description: | Numerous men stand on and around a large pile of logs and a sled stacked with logs pulled by four horses at the C & M Ry Company's camp. There is snow on t... |
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