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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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Ground-Breaking Ceremony for Addition to Wisconsin General Hospital

Date: 08 09 1949
Description: Governor Oscar Rennebohm uses a chain saw to make a cut on one of the trees in front of the Wisconsin General hospital. The trees must be removed to make r...
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Home Economics Day

Date: 03 20 1957
Description: Robert Kopp demonstrates meat cutting to Shirley Walberg (intern), Janice Hinze (assistant), and Ruth Dickie (chief dietician) during the hospital dietetic...
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Red Cross Gray Ladies Volunteer at the Wisconsin Diagnostic Center

Date: 03 04 1958
Description: Red Cross Gray Ladies Mrs. Irving J. Maurer (left, 30 Fuller Drive) and Mrs. Ralph Penniall (right, 37-B University Houses) give advice and assistance to t...
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Tent at Tent Colony

Date: 06 27 1931
Description: Man sawing wood in front of a tent in the woods at the University of Wisconsin Tent Colony. The tent is set up on a wood platform. Also known as Camp Galli...
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Cutting up Christmas Tree

Date: 07 20 1933
Description: Two men sawing up the 10th ward Christmas tree, a stately Wisconsin fir, which had been growing at the corner of Spooner and Monroe Street.
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Ice Harvesting Machine

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Description: A man stands near an ice harvesting machine on a lake. A label on the machine reads: "Wisconsin." There is open water behind him, and in the far background...
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Sawmill in Necedah

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Description: Group of men working outdoors in the snow. Large logs are stacked and ready to be cut. There are two steam or coal-powered machines in the background runni...
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Men Logging

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Description: Large group of men posed standing and holding logging tools with several teams of oxen and horses in the woods.
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Men Logging

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen. Two other men are sawing a tree with a two-handled saw.
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Men Logging

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Description: Five men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in a snow-covered forest.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Men posed in a snow-covered loggers camp displaying three teams of two oxen and six teams of two horses.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logging tools in snow-covered logging camp in front of log buildings.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and sitting on benches on the snow-covered ground in front of log buildings and several horse teams.
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Logging Scene

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Description: Exterior view of a group of men posing standing on top of and around logs on a sled pulled by a team of horses.
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Men Posed Holding Logging Tools

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Description: Four men posed standing and holding logging tools next to a team of two oxen in the woods. Photographer's wagon in the background of C.R. Monroe, Traveling...
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Men Logging

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools, including a long saw blade, next to and atop bobsleds pulled by a team of two oxen and a team of two...
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Men Logging

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools in the woods during winter next to two teams of two horses and a team of two oxen.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. In the background a man stands with an ox, and another man displays a team of two horses.

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