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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 06 18 1947
Description: Ed Gesteland, who is fourteen years old, is shown working on his Soap Box derby racer in the basement of his home at 4221 Wanetah Trail. Behind him, with h...
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Madison Soap Box Derby, Car Construction

Date: 04 22 1948
Description: Frank Meyers measuring the floorboard of his 1948 Soap Box Derby racer to see that it compares exactly with the full-scale plans he drew before starting to...
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Sheet Metal Factory Worker

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Description: A boy (teenager?) works in a sheet metal factory.
Postcard

Logging

Date: 1908
Description: Colorized postcard of loggers posing with logs piled on horse-drawn sleds. Caption reads: "Logging, Athens, Wis."
Photograph

Young Lumberjacks

Date: 1920
Description: Two timber sawyers standing posed with their tools in a forest. Both men wear heavy mittens, and the man on the left is carrying a saw across his left shou...
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Two Woodcutters

Date: 1907
Description: Two young men are posing under a tree in front of neatly piled stacks of fuelwood, and a tall pile of fuelwood on the right. The man on the left is sitting...

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