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| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | A crew of construction workers paving North Main Street with brick. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Sears Roebuck catalog page of heating radiator, kettles, and pans. |
| Date: | 10 11 1981 |
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| Description: | Jim Niemann decorates dipped chocolates at his family's business, Niemann's Home Made Chocolate Shop. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Cover of a German language advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover's color illustration features a woman with a rake watching a ... |
| Date: | 04 18 1934 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Cardinal Hand Laundry, 619 State Street. Two women are ironing, while another woman is folding clothes while under the attention of their m... |
| Date: | 04 03 1929 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Charles H. Seals, janitor at the Security State Bank, 1965 Atwood Avenue. He is standing next to a rubber tree plant and is cleaning the table. |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | Color advertising photograph of a family singing by a campfire near a Travelall 1010 truck and a Mallard camper. A man is in the foreground chopping wood f... |
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| Description: | Men parading down street with axes over their shoulders. Probably the Modern Woodmen of America, a fraternal insurance body in the 1890s which was strong i... |
| Date: | 04 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a customer at the sales counter of O.T. Kercheval's International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters and a calender are on the wall... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A girl and a boy doing field work beside a wagon. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Baskets of potatoes surround a young girl as she peels and cuts them outdoors near the side of a building. |
| 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: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 10 30 1948 |
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| Description: | John Ochalle, employee of the Durfee Brothers Roofing Company, who discovered evidence of a burglary at the company's place of business at 1804 South Park ... |
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| Description: | Child laborer standing barefoot near a pile of shells and holding a strainer in each hand. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Three men and a horse standing in front of a blacksmith shop which has a sign above the doorway advertising M. Karger and Brothers Clothing and Furnishing ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Binder twine display in the showroom of the Muscatine Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The display features balls of twine stacked... |
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| Description: | A group of "Modern Woodmen of America" stand at attention in a parade. The men are wearing uniforms that say, "MWA 51," and holding axes in their hands. A ... |
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| Description: | A portrait of a shoeshine boy, with a brick wall forming the backdrop. His clothes are tattered, and his work box is hanging from a strap on his left shoul... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A brother and sister use an Eau Claire steam pressure machine to run their canning business. |
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