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Mail Train

Date: 04 14 1948
Description: View across railroad tracks of cart loads of mail sacks on the platform, awaiting the arrival of the next train. The four men standing on the left have bee...
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Children Playing on School Grounds

Date: 1924
Description: Elevated view of school children running and playing on open school grounds. There is a schoolhouse in the background.
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Big Show Circus Tent

Date: 1934
Description: A crowd of people stand outside a circus tent. The words "Big Show" are emblazoned over the main entrance.
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Farmstead

Date: 1920
Description: View of a barn, farmhouse, outbuilding and tractor on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
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Bathing on Dock at Memorial Park

Date: 1935
Description: Boys and girls wearing bathing suits standing, swimming, or diving off of a large wooden dock into Chequamegon Bay, Lake Superior on the beach at Memorial ...
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Grading the Road

Date: 1931
Description: Men using horse-drawn and gasoline powered road equipment work on Highway 80 near Rockbridge. A wooded bluff rises steeply behind a farmhouse. Barns, a sil...
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Team of Oxen in Front of Sod Shanty

Date: 1885
Description: Team of oxen in front of a sod shanty on the Dakota plains. Two men stand behind the team on the right. The animals are hitched to a plow.
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Effigy Mound Excavation

Date: 05 31 1935
Description: Students digging into a bird effigy mound on the University of Wisconsin campus on May 31 through June 1, 1935.

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