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Lumber Camp Employees and Lumber

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Description: Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company Camp 15. Lumberjacks posed atop a sled load of logs, scaled at 13,562 board feet of lumber.
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Mass of Native Copper on the Ontonagon River

Date: 1821
Description: Engraving depicting the Schoolcraft expedition crossing the Ontonagon River to investigate a copper boulder.
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"The Pharmacopeia Comes of Age" Painting

Date: 02 1956
Description: Photograph of a painting titled: "The Pharmacopeia Comes of Age" by the artist Robert Thom. The painting depicts a scene from 1880. Pictured are the notabl...
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"The Founding of the United States Pharmacopeia" Painting

Date: 1957
Description: Photograph of a completed painting by artist Robert Thom titled: "The Founding of the United States Pharmacopeia". The painting depicts a scene from the fi...
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Painting "The Founding of the U.S. Pharmacopeia"

Date: 1957
Description: Artist Robert Thom is seen here working on one of his paintings, this one titled: "The Founding of the United States Pharmacopeia".
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"The Founding of the U.S. Pharmacopeia" Painting

Date: 1957
Description: The artist Robert Thom pauses to pose with his new painting, "The Forming of the United States Pharmacopeia", which depicts the inaugural delegates to the ...
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Agricultural Extension Lecture from Car

Date: 1915
Description: Professor Holden of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department expounds the benefits of alfalfa from the back seat of a car.
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Crowd Watching Agricultural Extension Alfalfa Lecture

Date: 1913
Description: Farm children, families and other onlookers watch an alfalfa series lecture by J.H. Skinner of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department....
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Indians Fishing From Boats

Date: 07 16 1898
Description: A group of Ojibwa men fishing from boats.
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OS-6 Orchard Tractor and Spray Unit Spraying Crops

Date: 1946
Description: McCormick-Deering Model OS-6 orchard tractor in operation in an apple orchard with a 500 gallon Hardie Spray Rig. The rig had a 30-35 gallon pump capacity ...
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Farmer on F-14 Plowing Field

Date: 06 30 1938
Description: Farmer Charles Hibbard is using his Farmall 14 tractor with attached fourteen section spring harrow to plow a field on his 400-acre farm.
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International Grocery Delivery Trucks

Date: 08 31 1926
Description: Two drivers and a grocer posing with International delivery trucks outside Kretschmer's grocery store. Other businesses on the street include the Associate...
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Cutover Shacker Hanging Laundry

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Description: In a photograph taken for the Farm Security Administration, a man hangs socks to dry on a clothesline on land where trees have been cut down, or cutover.
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Important Potawatomi Men

Date: 1890
Description: A group of locally important Potawatomi Indians, apparently photographed in a government or law office at Escanaba, Michigan. Left to right standing are Fr...
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Potowatomi Group

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Description: A Potowatomi group consisting of David Nsa-waw-quet, his wife Margaret Nsa-waw-quet, and her sister Mary Wabanosay, or "Morning Walking." A young girl is ...
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Abraham Mishegand or Mishicott

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Description: Portrait of Potawatomi Indian, Michicott.
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Dairy Equipment Dealer Demonstrates Product

Date: 1937
Description: McCormick-Dealer dairy equipment dealer Lyal H. Watkins demonstrates to Ernie Deensford how to clean a milker hose.
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Loading a 20mm Cannon

Date: 1945
Description: Original caption reads: "A loaded magazine is mounted on a 20mm cannon in one of the test stands at Hazel Park Firing Range." Frederick Viator is the gunne...
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The Opening of the Railroad from Grandhaven to Grand Rapids

Date: 1857
Description: At the opening of the railway between Grandhaven and Grand Rapids, Michigan on July 26, 1857, the locomotive Grand Rapids was manned by the railroad...
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Man with Bees

Date: 12 10 1910
Description: A man displays a stick that has bees and honeycomb hanging from it.

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