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| Date: | 10 04 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is reaching into a running machine to clean clogged silo filler blades, demonstrating farm hazards on International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men stretching wire while putting up a barbed wire fence on the Frank Laramore farm. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A mowing machine with its cutter raised is resting near the entrance to a barn as a man is walking nearby while carrying a metal bucket. The photograph was... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a wooden barrel which is resting on a wooden box on concrete entrance steps near a door. He is using a hammer to fix a window frame. T... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A boy wearing a cowboy hat is sitting on the back of a horse as a man hoists hay into a hayloft using a pulley system. Another boy is standing in the barn ... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is using a funnel to siphon gasoline from a tank into a pail while smoking a pipe. The photograph was staged on the K. Legge Memorial Farm to demonst... |
| Date: | 10 1926 |
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| Description: | Two men are resting against a haystack while smoking pipes. The photograph was staged at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm to demonstrat... |
| Date: | 09 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and directing another man who is driving a McCormick-Deering Farmall tractor for stretching a fence wire. The photograph was staged on In... |
| Date: | 05 26 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is filling a metal pitcher with oil from a barrel stored in a garage with litter on the ground, illustrating a farm hazard. |
| Date: | 05 26 1926 |
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| Description: | A man using a wooden pump to fill a metal pail with water. The photograph was staged to demonstrate a hazard found on farms. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is working to fix a wooden fence while standing near a scythe which is hanging from the branch of a nearby tree, demonstrating a farm hazard. A farm ... |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a crate while using a sledge hammer to strike a piece of wood being held in place by another man who is standing in front of him. Two ... |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew filming a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A camer... |
| Date: | 04 13 1953 |
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| Description: | Disney film crew shooting a prescribed burn at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum for inclusion in the film The Vanishing Prairie. A came... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Otto F. Schultz, at age 81, uses the same tools his father used in his blacksmith shop. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Joe Weyenberg and two other men work with molten metal at the Roloff Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 05 07 1956 |
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| Description: | As part of a practice drill to prepare for possible disasters, phone calls are made to the crews of Explorer Post 503. Phoning are Gene Tschida (left), Exp... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Doris Ardelt, secretary of the Madison Civil defense office, hands out comic books to Mary Anthony, left, and Susan Peerenboom for distribution by the Girl... |
| Date: | 09 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle views the destruction on a street in Brest, France. On the left is a damaged military truck with three soldiers standing. Behind Doyle are two... |
| Date: | 10 1986 |
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| Description: | Theresa's Emergency Medical Technicians posing for Emergency Medical Service Week. |
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