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Construction Workers at World Trade Center

Date: 1969
Description: Two construction workers with hard hats at the World Trade Center.
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Sheep Shearing Contest

Date: 1951
Description: Winner Melvin Walker at work during a sheep shearing competition.
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New Deal Road Work

Date: 02 27 1934
Description: CWA road crew leveling a grade on a county road near Westfield. The CWA undertook many road and utility projects during the Great Depression in order to p...
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Chef Frosting a Cake

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Otto Wiedholz, Vienna French Pastry Shop, 334 State Street, frosting a cake. Otto and his wife, Elsie, 414 Chestnut Street, are the owners of the pastry sh...
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Mexican Workers in Field

Date: 06 29 1928
Description: Group of Mexican workers posing in front of a large stack of hay. Most of the people are wearing hats, many of them sombreros, and worn clothing. Several p...
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Interior of Repair Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Two men in a repair shop, probably the repair shop of Leslie Werner. Leslie Werner is identified as the man wearing the hat on the left.
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Grasshopper Bait Station

Date: 07 1938
Description: Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth.
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Cranberry Cleaning Machine

Date: 09 1934
Description: Two men are loading cranberries into a washing machine.
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Three Workmen

Date: 1900
Description: Man posing on a telephone pole with climbing equipment, with two men standing below.
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Bessie Hooker Grinding Poppy Seeds

Date: 06 28 1945
Description: With all Hillsboro striving to honor Vice-Admiral March A. Mitscher, who came for a visit with his mother, Bessie Hooker, a maid in the Mr. and Mrs. Lyle H...
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Lewis Flisram, Madison Parks Caretaker

Date: 07 05 1945
Description: Lewis Flisram, age 79, started working for the Madison Parks Commission in 1897. He worked there until 1911. He left to work for his mother for a period of...
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International Harvester Dealership

Date: 04 1929
Description: Elevated view of a customer at the sales counter of O.T. Kercheval's International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters and a calender are on the wall...
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Boy and Girl Working in the Field

Date: 1917
Description: A girl and a boy doing field work beside a wagon.
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Boiling Vats at Sugar Mill

Date: 1915
Description: Workers standing beside boiling vats at a sugar mill where the sap is boiled and made into sorghum molasses.
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Loading a Wagon

Date: 01 1916
Description: A farmer shoveling corn stalks from a field into a wagon.
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Madison Dairy Laboratory

Date: 01 09 1946
Description: Two men performing a test in a laboratory at the Madison Dairy, 1018 East Washington Avenue.
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Factory Workers at Plano Works

Date: 1919
Description: Men working with molds at International Harvester's Plano Works. One worker is standing at a workbench. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works....
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Hawkins Mine Workers

Date: 1945
Description: Two workers in coveralls and hardhats underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine near Hibbing, Minnesota.
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Workers at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Two workers, both in overalls and hardhats, use tools underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota. One man uses a drill wh...
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Carson Gulley Preparing Chickens

Date: 11 25 1942
Description: Navy cooks and bakers assisting a demonstration by Chef Carson Gulley, UW residence hall chef.

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