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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Wagons loaded with wood along a loading dock outside an agency or factory of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. |
| Date: | 05 29 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior of Klinke Hatchery, 1918 Winnebago Street, with employee pouring water into tray of chicken cages, and bags of Vig-o-ray starting mash in view. |
| Date: | 07 30 1929 |
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| Description: | Man weighing chickens on a Toledo scale at the Southern Wisconsin Produce Company, located at 638-40 West Main Street. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Women members of Local 231, of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workers of North America preparing turkeys for the market. |
| Date: | 02 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Jeanne DeBarr, a blind employee working at Forsberg Box Company, with her dog. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Road construction crew of the Nelson Weber Construction Company and steam shovel. This construction was photographed for the Wisconsin Good Roads Associati... |
| Date: | 09 30 1947 |
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| Description: | James Capacio and John H. Endres, assistant to L.B. Kelly of the Solvit Chemical Company, distributing poison bread at the Shorewood dump in a rat extermin... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A line of workers standing along tables at Chain O'Lakes duck farm. The workers appear to be plucking ducks. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat holds the reins of a work horse in front of a wood-sided building. The photograph's caption reads: "Milwaukee Works, Work Horses, Morit... |
| Date: | 05 12 1939 |
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| Description: | Men stand around a fish hanging from the ceiling inside the wholesale and retail fish store owned by the Mirabella Ice Company. The original caption reads:... |
| Date: | 12 15 1937 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a cotton gin owned by O.L. Gormon. A man stands on a balcony under the overhang of the building at the top of a flight of steps. Another m... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Large Mogul tractor pulling a grader along a dirt road. Two men ride in the tractor, while three others supervise from behind the tractor. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Two men fill the packs of mules lined up outside a building which has a tiled mission roof. The side of the building is labeled: "Fabrica de Aguas Minerale... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works factory, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. Men in the foreground are stacking piles of lumber. After 19... |
| Date: | 06 28 1952 |
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| Description: | A zoo keeper is standing beside Winkie, the Vilas Zoo elephant, as she is eating her "birthday cake" to celebrate her birthday and second anniversary at th... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Boilermakers and their helpers pose on and around a horse-drawn wagon that bears a sign that reads "Boiler-makers and Helpers," perhaps for a parade. Man o... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men unload pieces of lumber from the opened boxcars of a train near the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Winter scene of snow-covered road with two men shoveling snow. A dog is standing in the road near the men. The road is lined with fenced fields and telepho... |
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