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Peter Lagacy Family

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Description: The family of French-Canadian immigrant Peter Lagacy, posing with produce, including a large cabbage, potatoes, and carrots, in front of their log farm hom...
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Railroad Handcar

Date: 1908
Description: An early gasoline-powered handcar being used on the Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Sault Ste. Marie line for an inspection tour. The employees are (left to right...
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Railroad Crew with Handcar

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Description: Railroad workers posing with a handcar on railroad tracks.
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John Parman's Blacksmith, Wagon & Carriage Shop

Date: 1873
Description: John Parman's Blacksmith, Wagon & Carriage Shop. A large group of men, including workers in leather aprons, are standing with carriages and wagon wheels ou...
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Shoppers in Grocery Store

Date: 02 23 1955
Description: Two grocery store employees placing Dean's Milk in grocery cart for a woman and her two children.
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Mule Drawn Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Corn binder hitched to two mules in field in Algeria. In the distance are low hills. One bearded man, wearing what appears to be a full-length hooded jella...
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Machinery at Prairie du Sac Dam

Date: 08 11 1910
Description: The first machinery at work sounding at the site for the power dam. Workmen are posing near the carriage-mounted equipment. A horse-drawn wagon is in the ...
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Women and Farmer Posing in a Field

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Description: Five women, two seated in a carriage hitched to a horse and three on foot pose in a field with a farmer.
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Women Riding on Torpedo at IH Factory

Date: 1943
Description: Side view of six women sitting on a torpedo placed on a rolling cart at an International Harvester factory. Another woman woman stands to the side with her...
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Women Sitting On Torpedo at IH Factory

Date: 1943
Description: Side view of six women sitting on a torpedo placed on a rolling cart at an International Harvester factory. Another woman woman stands to the side with her...
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Underground Mining for Lead and Zinc

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Description: Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A group of young men are shown mining underground. Caption rea...
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Railroad Crew with Handcar on Trestle Over the Buffalo River

Date: 1890
Description: A railroad section crew poses with a handcar on the trestle spanning the Buffalo River, north of Alma, Wisconsin.
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Men Weighing Cotton Bales

Date: 1905
Description: Group of men and young boys are gathered outdoors while weighing bales of cotton on a large hanging scale manufactured by Smith.
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Three Men Posing in front of Farm Buildings

Date: 1895
Description: Three men are posing in front of a farmhouse with farm equipment and carriages. One man is standing in the field, another man is driving a mower, and a thi...
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Harvesting Hay with Hay Stacker

Date: 1895
Description: Outdoor group portrait of men harvesting hay. Two men are standing on top of a haystack with pitchforks filled with hay. A wooden counter-weighted hay stac...
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The Railroad Section Gang

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Description: Five men known as the Railroad Section Gang pose together on a handcar on railroad tracks. They traveled on handcars and repaired tracks. Standing second f...
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Group of People and Horses with Farm Equipment

Date: 1900
Description: Group of men, children, women and horses posing with farm equipment in front of farm buildings, a farmhouse, and a windmill. A man is posing on a McCormick...
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Men in Field with Grain Binders

Date: 1900
Description: Men are posing in a row of horse-drawn McCormick grain binders. A man and child are posing in a horse-drawn carriage. In the background is a farmhouse and ...
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Men and Boys Posing with Grain Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three men and two boys are standing in a field next to a McCormick grain binder. On the right a man in a suit and hat is sitting in a carriage pulled by a ...
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Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Corn

Date: 1900
Description: View down corn rows of field of a large group of men and boys harvesting corn stalks. Several men are filling a wagon. Behind them is a man operating a cor...

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