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Raft Fleet Below Dam

Date: 1886
Description: A fleet of rafts on the Wisconsin River below the Kilbourn dam.
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Klein Dickert House Painters

Date: 06 03 1935
Description: Three Klein-Dickert Co. painters with two ladders are painting a house located at 2315 Rugby Row.
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Construction Of Streetcar Tracks

Date: 1905
Description: Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square...
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Workers Crate International Trucks for Export Shipment

Date: 1930
Description: Four workers crating up International motor trucks for export shipment at International Harvester's Springfield Works (factory). One of the men is wearing ...
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Shoveling Dirt

Date: 08 13 1931
Description: Greg Kabat, University of Wisconsin football player, shovels dirt from the back of a truck at Camp Randall.
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Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was...
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Steeplejacks Repointing Chimney

Date: 08 05 1931
Description: Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P...
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Harold Smith Cleaning a Windshield

Date: 04 03 1931
Description: Harold Smith, University of Wisconsin football tackle, working his way through school by cleaning windshields at a Valvoline station.
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Floralo Incense Company

Date: 09 18 1929
Description: Two men operate pulverizing and mixing machinery at the Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street.
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Worker Inspecting M-1 Rifle

Date: 1955
Description: Factory worker inspecting the barrel of an M-1 rifle produced at International Harvester's Evansville Works for the U.S. military.
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Women Assembling Light Sockets

Date: 07 06 1942
Description: Four women assembling light sockets.
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1,000,000 Volt Coil

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Description: Workers construct a 1,000,000 volt coil at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company.
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Head Gate Retaining Walls

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Description: Retaining walls at the head gate of the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming.
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Working Men Walking Past a Building

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Description: Two men wearing hats, one of whom is carrying a bucket and a tool, walking across the street from a large building.
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Man Harvesting Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: A man carries two bundles of leaves on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Bundled leaves being carried out to t...
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Workers Laying Tracks on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of workers laying railroad tracks in a field of sisal on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba.
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P&H Concrete Breaker

Date: 04 15 1916
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on a residential street with a operator in the cab. Men are working in the street, and trees and power lines are l...
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Man Washes Smucker's Truck Trailer

Date: 1970
Description: A uniformed man in an indoor garage or warehouse is using a power washer to clean a truck trailer emblazoned with the Smucker's logo.
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Machine Shop Worker

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Description: A man wearing safety goggles and an apron while working in a machine shop. He may be part of a safety program.
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International K-6 Truck

Date: 1941
Description: One of 18 International Model K-6 trucks owned and operated by Henderlong Lumber Company, Inc. A worker is operating one of three dump mechanisms to fill t...

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