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Folk Singer

Date: 1941
Description: Unidentified folk singer sitting on a stack of logs and holding a pipe. Possibly recorded in Waushara County in 1941, where many lumberjacks were recorded.
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Extended Family of Lars Davidson Reque in front Yard

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Description: View across bare ground towards a large extended family of 26 people who are sitting and standing along a fence in the front yard of a wood frame house; La...
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Girl Scout Phyllis Sanders Gathering Firewood

Date: 05 07 1955
Description: Girl Scout Phyllis Sanders of Madison gathering firewood for cooking lunch during a one day Roundup of the Girl Scouts, Brownies, and Intermediates of Dist...
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Woman Sawing Wood with Sawhorse

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Description: A woman stands at a sawhorse between two small outbuildings using a hand saw with a sawhorse. A large building is visible in the background.
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Street Scene with Donkeys

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Description: A man in stands behind five donkeys, each laden with chopped wood in the middle of a dirt road. Caption reads: "Street Scene, Las Vegas, New Mexico."
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"Any Splinters Today?"

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Description: A man standing in the middle of a dirt road next to a small mule-drawn cart laden with chopped wood. Caption reads: "'Any Splinters Today' Milledgeville, G...
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Public School

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior view of a two-story public school. The basement windows are broken. A tree and a house are on the left in the background. Stacks of fuelwood are o...
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High Dive

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of a crowd watching a diver who has launched himself from a high ladder supported by guy wires. The railing around a small pool is visible on...
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Family in front of Frame House

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Description: View across grassy field towards a group of people posing in front of two-story frame house with a porch. Three women, and a man holding a young child. are...
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Man Sawing Logs

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Description: View across deep snow towards a man sawing logs next to a log cabin. In the background is a fence, and beyond across a field are more farm buildings and a ...
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Russian Firemen Extinguishing Flames

Date: 1918
Description: A group of soldiers look on as a group of Russian firefighters are attempting to extinguish a fire in a building possibly used by the Allied forces in Arch...
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Boy and Girl Playing in Yard

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Description: View from the shade of a building towards a boy and girl sitting on a pile of dirt playing. There is a small buggy on the left. In the background are a num...
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Unidentified People at an Unidentified House

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Description: View across yard towards a group of European American people. Two women, two children, and an infant are posing on the porch of a two-story wooden house.
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Elevated View of a Canoe

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Description: Elevated view of a man posing standing next to a canoe on sawhorses in a yard, showing the interior of the canoe, and two paddles lying inside. A young gir...
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Canoe in a Yard

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Description: View from above, from a roof or balcony, of a canoe on sawhorses near firewood stacked in a yard near a fence. Two buildings are in the yard.

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