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Experimental 8-16(?) Tractor

Date: 1916
Description: Man pulling wagons through water with an experimental 8-16(?) tractor with six wheels.
Poster

Health and Safety Poster on Pure Drinking Water

Date: 1916
Description: Poster or signboard with the title "Pure Drinking Water - Friend to Health - Foe to Typhoid." Includes images illustrating old and new ways of providing dr...
Photograph

Picnic on Bear Island

Date: 1916
Description: Group of people gathered for a rustic picnic on Bear Island, Apostle Islands, Lake Superior. Image includes Mrs. J.L. Abernathy, Cora A. Hull, Mrs F.B. Chu...
Photograph

Bear Island Picnic

Date: 1916
Description: Group having a picnic on Bear Island of the Apostle Islands. Group includes Cora A. Hull, Mrs. Chute, John Webb, Bob Webb, Mrs. Webb, Mrs. Austin, and Mr. ...
Photograph

Aero Cable Car

Date: 1916
Description: Slightly elevated view of people in the Whirlpool Aero Car, opened in 1916, departing from the station and crossing the whirlpool of Niagara Falls.
Photograph

Aero Cable Car Station

Date: 1916
Description: View looking up toward observers waiting for the Whirlpool Aero Car, built in 1913 and opened in 1916, to reach the station.
Photograph

Man Operating Hand Water Pump

Date: 1916
Description: A man stands on a wood platform and uses a hand operated water pump to fill a metal bucket.
Photograph

Hosing Down Silage

Date: 1916
Description: View of a man standing on a pile of corn hosing down the silage before loading a silo.
Photograph

Big Bull Falls

Date: 1916
Description: Water of Big Bull Falls or the Wisconsin River rapidly flows underneath two railroad bridges. Pedestrians cross the bridges while peering over at the over...
Photograph

Bear Island Picnic

Date: 1916
Description: Group of people at picnic on Bear Island.
Photograph

Shanagolden Dam

Date: 1916
Description: The Gang explores Shanagolden Dam, near Glidden.
Photograph

The Boys Go Swimming

Date: 1916
Description: Jack and Russell Greene go swimming in the lake after setting up camp. There is a canoe in the foreground.
Photograph

Fisherman Brazeau

Date: 1916
Description: Former Senator Brazeau of Grand Rapids, Wisconsin posing near a canoe. He is holding his fishing pole and a large muskie.
Photograph

The Gang At Bear Lake

Date: 1916
Description: A view of Bear Lake and the surrounding forested area. Several of The Gang are standing on a dam.
Photograph

Fording the River

Date: 1916
Description: A driver of a horse-drawn wagon fords the Chippewa River.
Poster

Moo-che-we-in-es. Pale face, my skin is dark but my heart is white. For I also gave to Canadian Patriotic Fund

Date: 1916
Description: Poster depicts First Nations man holding a dollar bill and two coins in one hand and a letter in the other hand written in his language. A paper with the t...
Postcard

Lighthouse and Pier

Date: 1916
Description: Tinted postcard of the lighthouse and a light tower at the end of a pier. A small boat with two passengers is on the water. This would be the Racine North ...
Photograph

Lake Garda

Date: 1916
Description: 1916 "summer guests" on the Gardasee (Lake Garda).
Postcard

Landing at Esther Beach

Date: 1916
Description: View of the dock at Esther Beach, Lake Monona. People are sitting in boats moored along the pier near the shoreline. Caption reads: "Landing at Esther Beac...
Photograph

Before: Pump and Drinking Trough for Horses

Date: 1916
Description: View of the pump and drinking trough for horses on a triangle of land at the junction of Chicago and Main Streets. The first Christian Science Church build...

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