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Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad

Date: 1884
Description: View across water of a Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad locomotive (No #33) pulling a pay car across a trestle over the Fox River. Several large...
Poster

Gammon and Deering Advertising Poster

Date: 1876
Description: Color chromolithograph illustration advertising poster for the Marsh Harvester, produced by Gammon and Deering Company. Printed by Charles Shober & Co., Ch...
Photograph

Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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Description: The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke.
Print

Randall Harrow Advertisement

Date: 1890
Description: Advertisement for the Randall Harrow, manufactured by the Warrior Mower Company. Features a color illustration of a farmer using the harrow in a field.
Photograph

Bureau of Sewers Dump Truck

Date: 12 01 1937
Description: A man parking an International D-30 dump truck used by the Bureau of Sewers near a river or harbor. On the opposite shore in the background are buildings, ...
Photograph

Boating in Kashmir

Date: 1951
Description: Boatman on a river in Kashmir. In the background are other boats along a tree-lined shore.
Photograph

Raftsman's Series No. 1406 : Trip Finished. Pulling Out The Lumber - Anaglyph

Date: 1886
Description: Stereograph of men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left loads lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon while a man in an apron holds the horses. There is ...
Photograph

Logging Clean-Up Crew

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Description: Group of men and a boy posed holding logging tools and standing in front of tents on the banks of a river, probably just south of Black River Falls. A man ...
Photograph

Delivery Truck Parked in Front of City Skyline and Ships

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view of an International Harvester model MA-1500 Metro delivery truck is parked on a bridge overlooking a body of water and a city skyline, likely...
Print

The New Cabin

Date: 1937
Description: Linoleum cut engraved view of men building a log cabin. One man carries a log in the background near a lake or river, while another man nails a log held in...
Photograph

Dam in Wausau

Date: 1913
Description: View down riverbank towards dam of a river around Wausau. Two men and a limber (two-wheeled cart) are near the rivers edge. A man, perhaps a construction w...
Photograph

Dad the Photographer

Date: 1910
Description: A view of Howard "Dad" Greene photographing an Indian man and a dog next to a jerky-drying frame. They are in an Indian village at the mouth of the Namakan...
Photograph

On the Raft

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Description: Stereograph of men on a large raft on the Wisconsin River, with exposed, tree-lined rock formations on the shoreline in the background. Wanigans (shelters)...

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