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| Date: | 10 1959 |
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| Description: | Moving a very large boulder with a bulldozer during construction of Highway 94 in Waukesha County. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew for the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company. Crew members are in the process of breaking a jam at the Big Eddy. One of the men is carrying a yo... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | An important event of the French and Indian War (1754-1763) was commissioned in 1903 by Robert Laird McCormick, president of the State Historical Society o... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Frank Lloyd Wright, monitoring the construction and testing of load-bearing pylons for the Johnson Wax Building. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Frank J. Hess and Sons barrel-making factory, 1952 Atwood Avenue at Schenck's Corners. Pictured l to r: Frank Jr., Edward, Joseph, Tony, a... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Workers hooping the curd to make cheddar cheese at the Plymouth Cheese factory. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Loggers using pulley to top load logs on horse-drawn bob sled. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Loggers at dinner in the woods north of Glen Flora. The man in the center is filing his saw. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sunday morning in a lumber camp bunk house. |
| Date: | 03 14 1957 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street towards the storefront and delivery vehicles of Spic and Span Dry Cleaning. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil, and other officials touring the Allis-Chalmers plant. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed employees of the Sinclair Oil Company Service Station, located at 501 East Broadway, standing in front of the station's gas pumps. Two life... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Winter scene overlooking town, showing Baptist church in background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Log driving crew on river in five bateaux. In the background on the left is a bridge. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior of a lead mine showing two miners kneeling with candles in their hands. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Factory worker tightening bolts on a Farmall tractor on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Factory workers on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. The men are working on Farmall tractors. |
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