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| Description: | Portrait of Homer Bigart with elderly couple. Bigart was an award-winning journalist with the "New York Herald-Tribune" and the "New York Times". |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | A boy and a man are holding up small white pine trees, while workers are planting them at Alexander Lake's nursery. In the background are horses and wagons... |
| Date: | 07 1873 |
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| Description: | Adams and Juneau Counties. Pillar Rock, Fort Danger. There is a man with an 8 x 10 camera in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers drying sisal fibre (fiber) in long rows in Yucatan, Mexico. The fibre was used by International Harvester for binder twine production. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a farmer using a hay loader (elevator) to transport hay bales into a barn loft. A Farmall 504 utility tractor and a Farmall 460 tractor ar... |
| Date: | 07 02 1909 |
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| Description: | Test flight of the bi-plane invented by Ray Zorn of Dayton, Ohio, who later resided in Waukesha, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of... |
| Date: | 05 07 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men holding up bare root trees at the McKay Nursery Branch Office, 911 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 22 1930 |
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| Description: | Phil La Follette confers with rail chiefs. Front row (left-right): F.B. Seymour, Green Bay and Western, Philip F. La Follette, Governor-elect, Fred W. Sarg... |
| Date: | 09 1929 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, almost finished. |
| Date: | 09 1929 |
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| Description: | View across field towards the Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, almost finished. |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view towards a man operating a Farmall Cub tractor in a garden. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View towards a man operating a Farmall 140 tractor with an attached cultivator in a field. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | International power unit powers an irrigation system. |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City. |
| Date: | 08 1974 |
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| Description: | View down double set of railroad tracks towards a Milwaukee Road train, with the engineer about to board. Other men are standing in the background. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
| Date: | 08 06 1941 |
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| Description: | Singer Harry Dyer (b.1864), right, and sound engineer Robert Draves. |
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