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Men Making Cigarettes

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Description: Studio portrait of three seated men making cigarettes, posing in front of a painted backdrop. They are all wearing suit jackets, neckties, and hats. Probab...
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Lewis Flisram, Madison Parks Caretaker

Date: 07 05 1945
Description: Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of...
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Tall-tale Postcard: Rabbits

Date: 1910
Description: Two hunters stand around a pile of giant rabbits that they have killed in a Wisconsin forest. It is winter; there is snow on the ground. One of the hunters...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: The Daddy of Them All

Date: 08 05 1922
Description: Two fishermen on a lake catch a giant fish. Both of the fishermen are wearing hats and one is smoking a pipe. A dock and the tip of a boat are in the foreg...
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Fred L. Statz, Employee

Date: 06 05 1946
Description: "Art" Schiller, employee of the Fred L. Statz Paint Company, 123 West Main Street, demonstrating the mechanical operation of a floor sander machine to a pr...
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Men with Automobile

Date: 1910
Description: Two men relax in an automobile while another stands by with an oil can in hand, smoking a cigar.
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Confiscated German Jewelry

Date: 10 17 1946
Description: Harry B. Haley (right) bought the diamond pin and 662 jewel bracelet held by George H. Brown, chief deputy U.S. Marshal for the Western Wisconsin District ...
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Constable Rube J. Holcombe

Date: 07 1913
Description: Constable Rube J. Holcombe posing for a photograph while smoking a cigar.
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Two Men Smoking

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Description: Studio portrait of two standing man smoking cigars posing in front of a painted backdrop. One man is pouring liquid into a glass. Both men are wearing hats...
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Three Men Drinking Beer

Date: 1900
Description: Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of three unidentified white men dressed in bib overalls. One man is sitting in the center betwee...
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Two Men Talking at Tractor Exhibit

Date: 1915
Description: Two men standing near a display tent at a tractor exhibition. One man appears to be talking animatedly while the other listens.
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Construction Workers at Dam Site

Date: 1958
Description: Construction workers O.R. Williams, Fred Mappin, and Rober Garner at the site of the Mammoth Pool Dam on the San Joaquin River in the Sierra Nevada Mountai...
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Jacksons at Wisconsin State Capitol

Date: 1900
Description: Russell Jackson (?), Joseph W. Jackson, and Dr. James A. Jackson, Sr., (with cigar), in front of the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Men Standing on Railroad Car

Date: 04 1911
Description: Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam.
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Workers on Pile Driver

Date: 09 23 1911
Description: Workers standing on the barge-mounted, steam-driven pile driver at work on the coffer dam.
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Captain Dan Angus

Date: 1913
Description: Captain Dan Angus standing on wooden boat dock, smoking a cigar. Dr. Albert Gregory Hull is partially visible on the left. The boat dock is possibly on Dev...
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Mr. Henry Weber

Date: 08 20 1914
Description: Henry Weber, the president of the Park Board rides in an automobile in Lake Park. Caption on glass plate reads: "Mr. Henry Webster [sic], prest. Par...
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Big Bill Thompson and Friends

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Description: "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge.
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Boating on Lake Superior

Date: 1945
Description: Three men power boating on Lake Superior. Two of the men are smoking cigarettes.
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IH Dealer J.S. Nelson

Date: 03 12 1924
Description: J.S. Nelson, an International Harvester dealer, speaks with a man seated on corn planter(?). Two men smoking pipes watch from the shed in the background.

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