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| Date: | 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the University of Wisconsin campus beyond the Forest Products Laboratory to the residential neighborhood between University Avenue and Reg... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Joseph Steinwand Cheese Factory, with a windmill and scrap lumber scattered along the fence. |
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| Description: | Women shown working inside the La Crosse business. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Workers at the Willms cigar factory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, posing with cigars and cigar boxes. Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) sits on the far left with six c... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Clothes hanging and drying on clotheslines in front of migrant workers' barracks. Libby McNeil and Libby Company was a major employer of migrant farm worke... |
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| Description: | A horse hitching weight is on top of a concrete cinder block in the yard of a wooden building. Location identified as near the McGillivray factory. |
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| Description: | Sled runners on the grass. Location identified as the Spaulding Manufacturing yard. Part of a building and what may be a loading dock is in the background. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of town with homes and factories. |
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| Description: | View across river of York Iron Works. On the hill are the boardinghouse and dance hall. Just below the boardinghouse there appears to be a quarry. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Factory girls' “club” gathered for coffee in plant refreshment room in the Milwaukee Paper Box Co. |
| Date: | 09 1949 |
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| Description: | "This view is straight south of Widmer Cheese Factory." |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View of the Fourth Ward Park. Several men sit on a bench, while numerous houses and a factory are visible in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroads tracks of Canadian ship with cargo of wood pulp. Sulphide bales are being unloaded and there are several men on the ship. In t... |
| Date: | 09 12 1919 |
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| Description: | Looking west from the roof of the Northwestern Mutual home office at E. Wisconsin Avenue and N. Van Buren Street. City Hall is on the right. Caption on gla... |
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| Description: | York Iron Works with a view of the blast furnace. On the hill is the boardinghouse and the dance hall. A man is working near the railroad cars, and other p... |
| Date: | 03 23 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison streets, new pavement, viewed on Myrtle Street, looking west toward Oscar Mayer plant. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | "Paul Koll loads empty milk cans at Widmer Cheese Factory." |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the three-story brick factory building, with a taller, square central tower that has symmetrical two-story wings. Identified on ... |
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