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Man Weighing Chickens

Date: 07 30 1929
Description: Man weighing chickens on a Toledo scale at the Southern Wisconsin Produce Company, located at 638-40 West Main Street.
Book or Pamphlet

50 - Man Weighing Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Man in lab coat weighing angora rabbit with scale outdoors. Text on page says, "Gewichtskontrolle".
Book or Pamphlet

51 - Man Weighing Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Man weighing angora rabbit with scale outdoors.
Photograph

Commercial Building in Milwaukee

Date: 
Description: Northeast corner of N. 2nd and W. Michigan streets with the James G. Brazell Printing and C.W. St. John Labor Agency businesses. A man is standing at a fru...
Photograph

Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation

Date: 01 1948
Description: Two men in a laboratory weighing rats at the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.
Photograph

Weighing Cotton

Date: 1920
Description: Men weigh(?) bales of cotton on a wooden platform, while other men load or unload bales onto a wagon drawn by mules.
Photograph

Men with Cotton Bales

Date: 1920
Description: Men lead two mules in hauling a wagon full of cotton bales near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform.
Photograph

Cotton Bales on Wagon

Date: 1920
Description: Two men place a bale of cotton on top of a pile on the back of a mule-drawn wagon. They are near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform...
Photograph

Harrison Produce Company Sales Counter

Date: 1937
Description: A man behind a counter weighs chickens on a countertop scale, and a women in a coat examines chickens on the counter. Some canned items are on a shelf behi...
Photograph

Customers in General Store

Date: 1939
Description: Two women and a girl stand near a counter inside a general store as a man shows them a product. A cat and a dog sleep on the floor in the background, and a...
Photograph

High School Band Plays in Street

Date: 1942
Description: The Elk Mound High School band entertaining farmers as they weigh in loads of scrap at Ausman Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The...
Photograph

Men in Yard Weighing Bales of Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Men in a residential backyard using a hanging scale to weigh bales of cotton loaded on a wagon pulled by a team of work horses.
Photograph

Yahara Fishermen's Club Percharee

Date: 01 17 1954
Description: Portrait of Oscar Dary at a fish weighing station.
Photograph

Beekeeper Weighing Small Hive on Birdhouse

Date: 09 18 1981
Description: A beekeeper, wearing a bee suit, including gloves, and a hat with a veil, is crouching down and weighing a beehive that is attached to a birdhouse.
Photograph

G.W. Estes and Children with Frames and Honeycomb

Date: 
Description: G.W. Estes and two young girls, standing in a storeroom. Hive boxes with frames are on the floor. Along the walls are shelves stacked with square boxes of ...
Map or Atlas

Partie Orientale de la Nouvelle France ou du Canada avec l'Isle de Terre-Neuve et de Nouvelle Escosse, Acadie et Nouv. Angleterre avec Fleuve de St. Laurence

Date: 1759
Description: Map of north eastern Canada and parts of New England, showing settlements, cities, portages, Native American land, mountains, lakes, and rivers. The unusua...
Photograph

Mackey Wells

Date: 1914
Description: Mackey weighing a large fish near a log cabin. The lake is partially visible in the background on the right.
Photograph

Street View of Town

Date: 
Description: View down center of unpaved street. Commercial buildings are on both sides, and a group of men, one with a bicycle, are standing on the sidewalk on the lef...
Postcard

Kelnhofer's General Store

Date: 09 09 1910
Description: The text on front reads: "Int. of Geo. J. Kelnhofer's General Store. Rib Lake, Wis." A man is standing in the central aisle, and a girl, holding a cat, is ...

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