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Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
Date: | 03 1945 |
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Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
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: | 1900 |
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Description: | Four men from a logging crew posing standing in the snow with teams of horses and oxen. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Children working and playing in a community garden at 38th and St. Louis streets. |
Date: | 06 03 1935 |
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Description: | Three Klein-Dickert Co. painters with two ladders are painting a house located at 2315 Rugby Row. |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Publicity photograph showing a little girl sitting on the running board of an International R-series pickup truck and eating an apple while her father pick... |
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: | Men cutting logs with a saw powered by an International Harvester gasoline engine on the farm of Casper Kaster. |
Date: | 05 20 1960 |
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Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
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: | 06 1923 |
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Description: | Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. |
Date: | 04 05 1919 |
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Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
Date: | 04 21 1919 |
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Description: | Workers digging an intermediate bin for mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel C... |
Date: | 11 26 1923 |
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Description: | Farmer, possibly Walter Stange, cutting wood with a circular saw run by a 1 1/2 H.P. Type M McCormick-Deering gas engine. |
Date: | 05 07 1937 |
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Description: | Group of men digging with shovels in the McKay Nursery evergreens field. |
Date: | 12 19 1936 |
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Description: | View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr... |
Date: | 11 21 1936 |
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Description: | Three men on scaffolding are installing Capitol Rock Wool insulation, from a R.H. and E.H. Carpenter Inc. truck into a house at 616 N. Carroll Street. |
Date: | 05 10 1935 |
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Description: | Durfee Brothers Roofing Co. truck in front of a home, Jos. P. Slightam residence) at 341 West Wilson Street, with a roofer installing shingles on the steep... |
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