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University of Wisconsin Women's Carpentry Class

Date: 1900
Description: Women working with tools, including a saw, in the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Extension women's carpentry class.
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University of Wisconsin Coeds Sawing Trees

Date: 04 29 1946
Description: Four University of Wisconsin coeds sawing tree branches during a university student workday.
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Nutrition Lab

Date: 1931
Description: Two students work in the nutrition lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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University of Wisconsin Tent Colony

Date: 07 15 1954
Description: Professor J. Duke Elkow and his family stand at their "summer home" at the University of Wisconsin tent colony on Lake Mendota.
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Therapy at Wisconsin Orthopedic Hospital

Date: 11 06 1947
Description: Two young male patients and an occupational therapist doing an activity at the Wisconsin Orthodpedic Hospital, 1415 Linden Drive.
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Ginseng Beds

Date: 1938
Description: Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin.
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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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Sculpting a Figure

Date: 1950
Description: A female artist sculpting a female figure from clay.
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Visitors Watch a Burial Mound Excavation

Date: 1935
Description: Members of the Wisconsin Outing Club watch the excavation of a burial mound at the Outlet group in 1935.
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Beekeeping Class

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Description: Group portrait of men and women posing outdoors in full beekeeping gear. Part of a class on beekeeping in Wisconsin.
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Nutrition Specialist Gladys Stillmam

Date: 02 08 1949
Description: Miss Gladys S. Stillman, judge of the "Wisconsin State Journal's" dessert recipe contest, exhibiting utensils used in baking nationality dishes. Also in th...
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Student Nurses in Laboratory

Date: 09 30 1932
Description: Three student nurses in a laboratory at Wisconsin General Hospital.
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Picnic Point Work Day

Date: 04 28 1945
Description: Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Uprooting a tree stump, left to right are: Ronald Giblin, Leatrice...
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Recreation Leadership Club

Date: 12 02 1948
Description: Five University of Wisconsin students in the Community Leadership in Recreation curriculum are watching Prof. James Schwalbach demonstrate metal work in th...
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Stretching Hide

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Description: A woman in traditional Native American dress is using a wooden tool to stretch out a hide.
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Potato Field

Date: 09 28 1948
Description: "Ben & Catherine Adelmeyer tend their potato crop in a field that abutted Henni & Wisconsin Streets."
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Beeswax Candle Making Demonstration

Date: 03
Description: Mrs. Wasilinsky from Cumberland giving a candle making demonstration at the Polk-Burnett County Beekeeper Meeting. Mrs. Weber, Secretary Treasurer in the b...
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Wisconsin Pioneer

Date: 1978
Description: An older woman is splitting wood on a farm. She is wearing a dress and apron.
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Chef Carson Gulley

Date: 03 22 1954
Description: Carson Gulley, senior chef at the University of Wisconsin residence halls, putting on a cooking demonstration at the Loraine Hotel as part of a Norge home ...
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Taking a Break

Date: 1937
Description: Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task.

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