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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Railroad depot taken as part of a survey by the Wisconsin Power and Light Company to promote economic development by emphasizing available buildings and bu... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Hillside Home School designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1901 and constructed over the next two years. The school was operated by the architect's family. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting by Cal Peters depicting construction of the first Fort Crawford at Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin in 1816. In the painting, several o... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of the Johnson Wax Research and Development Tower under construction. |
| Date: | 08 24 1964 |
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| Description: | Shore scene at end of Main Road showing studio and small boats at low water. |
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| Description: | Washington Park Zoo yak exhibit. The park was later replaced by the Milwaukee County Zoo. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Christmas and New Years greeting card from Hosea W. Rood, presumably sent to his comrades of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry, Company E, who had been... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the members of the United States Pharmacopeial Convention and their families standing for a portrait at Mount Vernon. |
| Date: | 05 1928 |
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| Description: | Boy idling away time with a rifle under a tree on the grounds of a rural school. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two International 1 1/2 ton Model F trucks parked along an urban residential street. The trucks were owned and operated by Standard Oil Company and carried... |
| Date: | 06 18 1935 |
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| Description: | Commonwealth Edison worker using a McCormick-Deering I-30 industrial tractor with a loader to scoop gravel off of a city street. The loader was manufacture... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Columbian Exposition; on board the caravel "Santa Maria." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | International M series panel truck used for delivery of baked goods. The truck was owned by Michele Riverso, Panetteria Napolitana of 1450 W. Polk Street. |
| Date: | 02 17 1915 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of African American children and adults posing in front of a run-down building with a stone chimney — possibly a rural school house. |
| Date: | 09 20 1923 |
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| Description: | Alexander Legge (1866-1933) with a pitchfork full of hay at a Thresher demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm. Men are milling around a t... |
| Date: | 05 22 1931 |
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| Description: | New 5th green at Burr Oaks Golf Course, 2100 block South Park Street. Taken with 21 inch lens from hilltop. |
| Date: | 08 22 1929 |
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| Description: | Steam shovel loading a truck as part of road construction in front of Collins Lumber Co., 2308 University Avenue. There is a horse-drawn wagon passing by. ... |
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| Description: | Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks. |
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