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Food Drive for Thanksgiving

Date: 11 18 1965
Description: Elementary school students collect nonperishable food to be distributed by the Salvation Army.
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Miners using a Pioneer Windlass

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Description: Early Wisconsin lead miners using a Pioneer Windlass.
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African American Workers at IHC McCormick Works

Date: 1905
Description: Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ...
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My Future Was. . . Farming

Date: 01 28 1985
Description: Farm family youth demonstrates to call awareness to the economic problems facing the family farm.
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Irish Milk Boy

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Description: A young boy drives a donkey-powered cart with a large milk can as cargo in Fermoy, Ireland.
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Fixing a Bicycle Wheel

Date: 06 16 1988
Description: One boy steadies a bike while his friend tightens the nut on the front wheel to complete a tire repair.
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Video Portraits

Date: 04 02 1987
Description: Three school children are posing for a video camera portrait, one attraction at a school fair sponsored by the Parent-Teacher Association (PTA).
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Frisbee Catch

Date: 07 20 1988
Description: Young men clamor to catch a Frisbee during a beach game.
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Family Farmers Market

Date: 07 27 1988
Description: Cousins set up a road-side stand to sell fruits and vegetables grown by their grandfather.
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Farmer Riding McCormick Binder outside Large Farm House

Date: 1900
Description: Farmer on a horse-drawn McCormick binder outside a large farmstead as men, boys, and a dog are looking on. One boy is on a bicycle.
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Ambulance Personnel Loading Person into International Ambulance

Date: 03 23 1929
Description: City of Chicago ambulance personnel are loading a person involved in an accident into an International ambulance as a small group of people are looking on....
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West High School Football Team

Date: 10 03 1930
Description: Group portrait of Madison West High School football squad.
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Turkey-drawn Wagon

Date: 1910
Description: A boy is driving two turkeys yoked together that are pulling his small wagon loaded with vegetables. Painted on the side of the wagon: "Birdsell, South Ben...
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Street Dance

Date: 07 20 1944
Description: Young people dance in the street on Bowen Court as part of city Recreation Department summer activities. Girls are dancing with girls and boys are dancing ...
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Fence Sitters

Date: 1922
Description: School friends Ethel and Eleanor fence-sit on a summer day.
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Fish About to Fly

Date: 1912
Description: Farnum Fish, the California-born "boy aviator," about to take off in his two-seat Wright Model B during a flying exhibition at the Wisconsin State Fairgrou...
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George Henry Williams

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Description: Sixth plate daguerreotype of a portrait of George Henry Williams (deceased child at 18 months), son of Henry C. and Diana T. Williams, and may be the cousi...
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Home Built Heath

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Description: Carl, Robert, and Ray Breecher at work on their modified parasol Heath airplane. After months of hard work, the plane was completely destroyed during a tes...
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Model Airplane Company

Date: 1940
Description: Assembly line packing by the Supreme Model Supply Co., a model airplane company started by Waukesha teenagers in 1940.
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Model Airplane Builder

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Description: Tony Italiano of Waukesha, founder of the Supreme Model Supply Co., with a large model airplane.

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