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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Paving block cutters at work at the the Montello Granite Company. Two men holding large hammers are posing underneath a tarp which is shading large pieces ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A foldout, illustrated poster for a Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth program featuring images of teenaged boys working. The text reads: "The CCC — A... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine. |
| 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: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A smiling woman holding an axe holding a pose while chopping wood. |
| 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: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 11 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Madeline Island logging camp near Big Bay. Men preparing logs for a building, with three log buildings in background. |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
| Date: | 08 24 1956 |
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| Description: | Purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by the Marquette Cement Company, original Falk caption reads:"M.O. NO. 5541-0574 & 5520-7424. Type of Unit, 12 1/2 GDA... |
| Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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| Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Thorsten Horton nailing a post to a structure, as a member of the North South Smokey Mountain Work Camp in Tennessee. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | A group of young men, including Thorsten Horton, working on fastening cords to a pole, as part of the North South Smokey Mountain Work Camp. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Monument construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Workmen are standing around the perimeter of a large hole while others are dig... |
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