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| Date: | 01 10 1934 |
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| Description: | Milk strikers and a pile of empty milk cans next to railroad tracks. Bill Nemeth (left) is pouring out milk in an attempt to create a shortage that would r... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Standing atop a special vehicle fitted with a body built to resemble a camera, Taylor found the ideal vantage point from which to cover a news event. The c... |
| Date: | 09 21 1922 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men operating a hay press powered by an International Harvester stationary engine as a woman is looking on. They are working near a barn which has chink-lo... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Man in a field in the seat of a mower drawn by two horses. The mower may be a McCormick, manufactured by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in a two-wheeled buggy hooked up to zebras, next to a fence near the Ring Barn on the left (which is still standing), with several male spectat... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An open streetcar labeled Fair Oaks sitting near Forest Hills Cemetery, which was then the end of the line. The motorman has been identified as Jack Schwen... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Tearing down Eau Claire House to make way for the Y.M.C.A. building. A man is standing on the roof. A sign in the street reads, in part: "Electric Light He... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Threshing with horse sweep power and men at work. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, built in the 1840s, on Shake Rag Street undergoing restoration. The house was temporarily covered with s... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Five men pose with the first successful four-wheel drive vehicle, which was made in Clintonville in 1909. The inventor, Otto Zachow, is the man seated at t... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Construction on Mount Rushmore. Scaffolding is visible across Abraham Lincoln's face. Work has just begun on Theodore Roosevelt. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A group of farmers listening to a talk by an agricultural extension representative (probably the man on the left). |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the offices of the American Fur Company. The roof is damaged or deteriorated. |
| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | Two workmen stack crates of cranberries in an open air drying shed. The original caption which was supplied by the Agriculture Department noted that Wiscon... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A pea combine in use on an unidentified Wisconsin farm. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A farmer is using a corn binder, while two other men are collecting the shocks. A farmhouse is in the background with several individuals standing on the p... |
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