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Crochet Club

Date: 1900
Description: Group of fifteen women gathered around three tables behind a home, probably the DMC Club, an exclusive social and sewing society named for an imported bran...
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Woman Pumping Water from Farm Well

Date: 04 1923
Description: A bundled-up woman hand pumps water from a well into a pail. The ground is covered with ice and snow. Two cars and a farmhouse are in the background.
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Woman Carrying Water to Farmhouse

Date: 04 1923
Description: Woman carrying a bucket of water back to her farmhouse in winter.
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Ojibwa Lodge

Date: 1906
Description: Ojibwa chief's lodge from Lac Courte Orielles Reservation set up at the 1906 Wisconsin State Fair. Note both reed and bark coverings on the lodge. A number...
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First Thanksgiving

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Description: Thanksgiving dinner between Native Americans and early Pilgrim settlers in America.
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Frankfurters on the Grill

Date: 08 22 1963
Description: "Picnicking in Mitchell Park provided a pleasant afternoon recently for these senior citizens who participated in the Milwaukee County Park Commission's pr...
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Family Camping Trip

Date: 09 06 1988
Description: Family members gather around a campfire to enjoy biscuits and sausages cooked on the grill at Naga-Waukee Park.
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Squash Harvest

Date: 1920
Description: A woman stands amid a patch of squash plants and displays a large squash in Marinette County.
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Unitarian Church's Work Day

Date: 1950
Description: People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc...
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Farm Wife Brings Lunch to Her Husband in the Field

Date: 1970
Description: Ingrid Bengtson bringing lunch to the field to help her husband, Norman, get the planting done faster. They are having lunch on top of the McCormick Intern...
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Woman Drawing Water from Well

Date: 05 1923
Description: Miss Neary drawing a bucket of water from a well next to a farmhouse. The original caption reads: "Drawing water from well. Miss Neary posing. Mr. Hyde pho...
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Blackhawk Country Club "Children's Day" Dress Up

Date: 07 06 1932
Description: Blackhawk Country Club dress up day for women titled "Children's Day." Women are dressed in children's costumes and are eating ice cream cones.
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Chippewa Woman Making Baskets

Date: 1925
Description: A Chippewa (Ojibwa) woman preparing splints for basket making. This image is part of an exhibit about Native Americans prepared by Paul Vanderbilt, the fir...
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Kruegers Husking Corn

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Description: August, Mary, Tina, Saraphina, Jennie and Edgar Krueger husking corn.
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Florentina Feeding Chickens

Date: 1915
Description: Florentina Krueger feeding chickens in the yard.
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Russian Women Washing Clothes

Date: 1910
Description: Group of women washing clothes by hand on a pier in a river in Russia. The scene may be near Lubertzy.
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Outdoor Chores

Date: 1920
Description: Woman doing chores outdoors.
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Family and Farm

Date: 1873
Description: Family and farm implements in a field with farm buildings and haystacks in the background.
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Parching Wild Rice

Date: 1907
Description: A Chippewa woman parching wild rice in Lac Vieux Desert. Lac Vieux Desert is a 4200 acre Michigan-Wisconsin boundary water in Vilas County.
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Edna Kern Hauling Water

Date: 01 13 1956
Description: Edna Kern, wife of Ernest G. Kern, hauling water in buckets to the hen house.

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