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Bootleg Days

Date: 08 23 1933
Description: Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri...
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Farmer Making Soap

Date: 1910
Description: The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T...
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Elizabeth Baker and Anne Ashley at Grant's Point Farm

Date: 1913
Description: Elizabeth Baker and Anne Ashley waiting for milk at Grant's Point Farm, Madeline Island. The dog is "Dandy," born in Munich, Germany.
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Churning Butter

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Ellen (Mrs. William) Lacy, of Sunny Slope farm, 5810 Lacy Road, south of Madison, sitting in the farmyard and turning a barrel butter churn.
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Moonlight Outing Club

Date: 07 04 1913
Description: Group of people known as the "Moonlight Outing Club" at Muskego Lake.
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Hamilton Works Core Room

Date: 1910
Description: Female employees working in the core room of International Harvester's Hamilton Works, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The photograph was marked by company staf...
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Family of Seven in front of House

Date: 1878
Description: A family of seven is sitting in the foreground around a table covered with books and flowers. Three young girls are sitting on the ground in front of the t...
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Family Gathered by House

Date: 1869
Description: A family is standing and sitting in a yard of the porch of a upright and wing frame house that has a diamond shaped attic window, two doors in front and ha...
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Croquet in the Yard

Date: 1874
Description: A family playing croquet in the yard of a side gable frame house with a porch. A birdcage is hanging from the porch and a young girl is clutching a doll. A...
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Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her Two Girls

Date: 1877
Description: Nicoline Hegg Jacobson and her two girls are standing in front of a frame house that has lathe on roof for climbing. Vines are growing in window boxes and ...
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Family with Infant

Date: 1870
Description: A family of seven, including a babe in arms are in front of a frame house with a stone foundation and latticework under the porch. A tree stump is in the l...
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Eleazer William's ("Lost Dauphin") Cabin

Date: 1915
Description: A group of people, men and women, standing outside in the yard in front of Eleazer William's log cabin, five miles south of De Pere. The women in the cente...
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Eben and Roseline Peck Cabin

Date: 1877
Description: Photograph of a painting of the exterior of the Eben Peck cabin by Mrs. E.E. Bailey. The location of this original painting is unknown.
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Samuel Arms Family

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Description: The family of Samuel Arms poses outdoors in front of their house (the front door faces east). From left to right are: Samuel Arms, Mamie, Mary Roberts Arms...
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Woman Ringing Bell

Date: 1918
Description: A woman standing on a porch is shielding her eyes from the sun as she is ringing a bell (dinner bell?). A child is standing next to her under a clothesline...
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Grape Stomp

Date: 09 15 1984
Description: Patricia Mallach of Waukesha demonstrating grape stomping to a crowd of onlookers during the Wine and Harvest Festival. She has a balloon tied around her n...
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Woman in Alley

Date: 1915
Description: View from cobblestone street of a woman wearing a skirt and head scarf moving a barrel of discarded vegetables in an alley. Probably taken near an outdoor ...
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Woman in Cellar

Date: 1921
Description: A woman wearing an apron is standing in a cellar while taking potatoes out of a basket for storage on a shelf. Shelves on the wall behind her hold multiple...
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Waiting at Luang Prabang Airport

Date: 05 1961
Description: A small group of refugees wait with luggage under an awning at Luang Prabang airport, Laos. An armed soldier stands behind them on the right. There is a tr...
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Woman with Mule on Airstrip

Date: 1961
Description: A woman carrying a basket on her back leads a mule laden with bundles across an airstrip at Keukacham village, Laos. There are 55-gallon drums near a tent,...

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