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Caning Chairs

Date: 10 17 1968
Description: An elderly man and woman make new cane seats for chairs at the Cedar Lake Home for the Aged.
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Automotives Trades Council

Date: 12 18 1944
Description: Group portrait of Automotive Trades Council members at Turner Hall, 21 South Butler Street, with Ben and Alvina Bergor, entertainers, sitting in the front ...
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Telephone Exchange Switchboard

Date: 08 14 1946
Description: Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background ...
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Wisconsin State Capitol (Third) Demolition

Date: 1906
Description: Only the salvaged planking behind the "Forward" statue created by Jean Pond Miner indicates that anything more is going on in this picture than a peaceful ...
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"Tractorettes" Working on Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1942
Description: Three women work under a Farmall H tractor. International Harvester's "Tractorette" program was intended to teach women to operate and maintain tractors wh...
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Four Women Share a House

Date: 03 21 1955
Description: Joan Williams and Dolores Roegner repair a furnace with a hammer and pliers in the house they share with two other young women at 2253 Rugby Row.
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Packard Auto

Date: 1931
Description: Two employees of Packard Auto in front of the service department office with a parked automobile.
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Women Polishing Truck Tires

Date: 1972
Description: Aileen Baumgardner of Merrillville, Indiana, is looking over the shoulder of Rusty Brda of Schiller Park, Illinois, as she is polishing the chrome discs on...
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Street Scene

Date: 1925
Description: View down street towards a garage with a gas pump on the left. There is a man standing by a parked car. Two women and a boy are standing near a parked car ...
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Russians Working on Railroad

Date: 1918
Description: View down railroad tracks toward a group of Russian residents working to clear another set of railroad tracks running alongside. In the far distance are tr...
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Capital City Auto Radiator Works

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Description: View from intersection at East Washington Avenue and Webster street, of the building at 121-123 E. Washington. The street has streetcar tracks. On the side...
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F.W. Woolworth Company Interior, Julius J. Wergin Painting & Decorating

Date: 1950
Description: Elevated view of two sales women of the F.W. Woolworth Co. standing at a counter, while five men, from Julius J. Wergin Co. painters and decorators, are st...
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Harvey's Union Corners Service Station

Date: 04 08 1954
Description: Service call by Harvey's Standard Service Station to a woman with a flat tire, stranded in a neighborhood. Harvey's service truck has pulled up alongside t...
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Smart Women Drivers

Date: 05 24 1959
Description: Mrs. Jean Wirka is being shown how to check oil in her car by her son, John, 14. Her other son, Eddie, 11, is watching the process.
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Smart Women Drivers

Date: 05 24 1959
Description: Mrs. E.J. Wirka is shown hosing down her car in preparation for a spring washing.
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Store Technics — Ideas for IH Harvester Dealers

Date: 01 1945
Description: Front cover of Store Technics featuring a portrait of Mrs. Mary Burns with a pulsator. Caption reads: "Mrs. Mary Burns conducts the expert pulsator ...
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Repairing the Road

Date: 09 10 1918
Description: It appears that a set of logs was just placed on the dirt road between an automobile and a horse-drawn carriage, possibly to fix a rut. While squatting by ...
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Affirmative Action

Date: 1976
Description: A woman and a man are working on a road construction crew, with a dump truck full of sand behind them. They are wearing work clothes and hard hats. In the ...
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Reichard Cup Snowmobile Grass Drag Championships

Date: 08 30 1989
Description: Overhead view of people with six snowmobiles in a grassy field. Caption reads: "Drivers and crew members prepared their machines for the races. It's a lit...

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