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Ray-O-Vac Building

Date: 11 30 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ...
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Bettendorf Tank Arsenal Office Building

Date: 04 04 1942
Description: Exterior view of the east side of a temporary office building under construction at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. Several cars are par...
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Office Building at Bettendorf Tank Arsenal

Date: 04 04 1942
Description: Workers from the Tunnicliff Construction Company build a temporary office building at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. On the right a par...
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Belmont Hotel Window Painting

Date: 06 18 1952
Description: William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows...
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Picnic Day at IH Demonstration Farm

Date: 07 09 1919
Description: Elevated view of a crowd gathered for Picnic Day at an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. Automobiles are parked in the foreground and alo...
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Picnic Day at Demonstration Farm

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of picnic day on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm. Automobiles are parked near a farmhouse and a group is gathered near ...
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Jim Widmer — The Marsh Inn

Date: 04 30 2010
Description: Jim Widmer photographing the exterior of The Marsh Inn for his fish fry series. Andy Kraushaar photographed Widmer at work on his documentary project. Krau...
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Main Street

Date: 1927
Description: View down Main Street lined with shops. Cars are sporadically parked along the curbs. There is a hotel, the Fritzstoldt tailor, soda fountain and drug stor...
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General Town View

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Description: Elevated view of the town and surrounding area. The brick building at the photograph's bottom center is labeled "Geren, Rish Art Studio" and was built in ...
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Store at Rustic Knoll

Date: 1930
Description: The log cabin store where a woman poses in the service window, and a man and a woman poses outdoors. There is a car parked in the road. The store advertise...
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Migrant Laborer Hiring Stall

Date: 1969
Description: Migrant laborer hiring stall in a dirt parking lot next to a protruding pipe and litter on the ground. The stall is a metal frame structure with a thin ben...
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Garage at Workers' Unity House

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Description: Exterior view of the garage at Workers' Unity House, founded in 1919.
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Green Bay Food Company Camp

Date: 1966
Description: Buildings along an unpaved road served as a camp for migrant farm workers working for the Green Bay Food Company.

In 1946, more than 4,000 farmworkers fr...

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Central Wisconsin Labor Camp

Date: 1967
Description: A central Wisconsin labor camp consisting of a row of wooden framed building with asphalt siding which housed migrant laborers. At the center, three childr...
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Neshkoro Poll Watcher

Date: 1967
Description: A seated young man looking into the camera watches over polls during a historic union election in Neshkoro. In the center, the ballot box is placed in fron...
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Mechanic in Truck Stop Garage

Date: 1966
Description: View from inside garage of a mechanic working down in a garage bay, and an Atlas Van Lines truck at garage entrance at an American Oil Company truck stop. ...
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Margaret McGuire and Family

Date: 1948
Description: Margaret McGuire (wearing the crown) and her family, with the photographers, Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Obma, posing outdoors on the lawn at the Dodgeville-Mineral...
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State Street 600 Block

Date: 1973
Description: View across State Street towards four buildings. The building on the far left is Discount Records, Inc. and Taco Grande. The second building (State St. Inv...

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