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Men at Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posing standing on the snow-covered ground in front of a log building. In the foreground one man is sitting on a pile of logs.
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Couple Standing on Boardwalk

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Description: Couple standing on boardwalk.
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Three Men in a Shoeshine Shop

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Description: Two African American men working in a shoeshine shop. The younger man is shining the shoes of a white customer who is sitting in one of the chairs on the e...
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Portrait of Two Men

Date: 1930
Description: Full-length studio "gag" portrait of two men in front of a painted backdrop. The man on the right, James Gorman, is wearing work clothes, boots and hat and...
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John Edmunds' Charter Oak Grist Mill

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Description: view of a woman, two girls, and a boy posed on the porch of a two-story wooden building, probably the John Edmunds' Charter Oak grist mill built on Squaw C...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Elevated view of men posed standing in a snow-covered logging camp. One man is holding a cat, and there is a dog standing nearby. The photographers wagon i...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and holding logging tools while standing in a line on the snow-covered ground in front of two log buildings.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed standing and sitting on benches on the snow-covered ground in front of log buildings and several horse teams.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed sitting and standing and holding logging tools in front of log buildings. There is snow on the ground.
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools. They are standing and sitting in front of wooden buildings. Two men display two teams of horses. Behind the group...
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Family with Horse-Drawn Plow

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Description: A woman and child are posing sitting on a plow steered by a man standing on their right. The two horses are standing on the left. In the background is a tr...
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Two Men Sitting Underneath a Parts Display

Date: 1910
Description: Two factory workers dressed in dark work clothes, light aprons, and dark hats sit on a crate below a numbered display of parts, most likely at Internationa...
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Four Workers Seated Below Parts Display

Date: 1910
Description: Factory workers sit on a wooden bench with a large wheel or gear resting on their legs below a display of implement parts, most likely at International Har...
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Blacksmith Wanamaker

Date: 1870
Description: Ferrotype/tintype of a studio portrait of Blacksmith Wanamaker and an unidentified man standing on either side of an anvil. The man on the left is holding ...
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Man with Machinery at Osborne Works

Date: 1910
Description: A factory worker is standing next to a large piece of machinery at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Around him are ca...
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Factory Worker Standing in Osborne Works Yard

Date: 05 25 1912
Description: A man dressed in work clothes and an apron stands in a factory yard at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind the ma...
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Log Driving Crew

Date: 1890
Description: View from shoreline of a driving crew standing on a log raft on the North Branch of the Popple River, a tributary of the Pine River. They are holding long ...
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Deering Binder Cutting Grain

Date: 1908
Description: The Alexander Krueger family posing with a Deering Binder being pulled by a three-horse team through a field. Florentina, Jennie, and Alexander are standin...
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College Barber Shop

Date: 09 08 2014
Description: The last week of business at the College Barber Shop. The owner Larry Cobb is cutting employee Don Fine's hair.
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Gisholt Metal Worker #1

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Description: Straight-on standing portrait of a Gisholt laborer in work apron, suspenders, boots and brimmed hat. Taken outdoors before a white sweep, he is standing wi...

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