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Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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Description: The head gate of the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming.
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King House

Date: 1925
Description: King house, owned by Joseph King, on a high bank above the Chippewa River near western end of Dead Lake. According to King, the house was formerly a tavern...
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Lincoln Monument

Date: 1910
Description: Rear view of Lincoln Monument on Bascom Hill on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. The back of the statue has a shield and eagle on the back of th...
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Moses Harman and His Grandson

Date: 01 1906
Description: Studio portrait of Moses Harman, 75-years-old, holding his baby grandson George Harman O'Brien, 4-months-old.
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Laveria Charmion, the Parisian Sensation.

Date: 1897
Description: Charmion (1875-1949, born Laverie Cooper in Sacramento) was a vaudeville trapeze artist and strongwoman who performed a trapeze striptease in 1897 that mad...
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Woman Sweeping

Date: 08 1931
Description: Irma Evans using a broom to sweep the floor near a wooden bench.
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Carquinez Bridge

Date: 1958
Description: Peter Guerrieri and John Balmino of Sugar City Building Materials Company sit beneath the Carquinez Bridge in front of an International cement mixer.
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Complimentary Dinner to Hon. John D. Spooner

Date: 03 05 1891
Description: Front cover and inside of menu for a dinner honoring U.S. Senator John C. Spooner when he was Chairman of the Committee on Claims, with an oval photograph ...

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