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Loggers Posing on Railroad Tracks

Date: 1896
Description: Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja...
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Men Washing a Surrey

Date: 1900
Description: View across yard towards four men washing a surrey using metal buckets in front of a stable. A boy wearing a suit, necktie and straw hat is standing behind...
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Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Moore

Date: 1908
Description: Mr. and Mrs. Jerome J. Moore outdoors at their home next to the Wisconsin Central Railroad tracks. Mr. Moore has a pipe in his mouth and is walking on crut...
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Hunting Camp

Date: 1909
Description: View of a hunting camp with the hunters assembled with their rifles in front of deer carcasses.
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Motorcycle Races

Date: 1914
Description: Elevated view of crowd and observation tower at motorcycle races at the Dane County Fairgrounds. Men on raised platform are judging the races.
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Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
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Crowd Promoting Land Clearing

Date: 1923
Description: A street gathering of people interested in using war-salvaged explosives for a land clearance program.
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Stacking Sheaves of Grain

Date: 1930
Description: A man is standing in a field and stacks sheaves of grain. He is wearing a hat and is smoking a cigarette.
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Little Wolf River

Date: 1950
Description: View across water towards a man fly fishing while standing in the river. He is wearing waders and a hat, and a creel and a net are hanging at his sides. He...
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Verboten

Date: 1952
Description: A boy smoking a corncob pipe, sitting in a cornfield. He is wearing bluejeans and a sweatshirt.
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Portrait of a Hunter

Date: 1961
Description: A hunter posing on a stone wall with his shotgun and the grouse he bagged. He is wearing a billed cap, plaid coat, tough trousers and lace-up knee-high boo...
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Louis Blanchard Collecting Maple Sugar

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Description: Louis Blanchard collecting maple sugar near Cornell.

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