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Filming of McCormick-Deering Tractor

Date: 1934
Description: Cameraman and sound operator from Paramount Sound News on top of a truck filming a demonstration of the McCormick-Deering O-12 radio-controlled tractor and...
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Woman Washing Laundry in Tub

Date: 05 1923
Description: Mrs. Eshe demonstrating the washing of laundry with a washboard, ringer and tub in front of a farm house. The original caption reads: "Washing with no impr...
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Woman Draws Water from Well

Date: 1920
Description: Farm woman operating a McCormick-Deering portable gasoline engine. The engine is driving a pump to draw water from a well into a homemade trough. Another w...
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Raiffeisen House

Date: 01 16 1939
Description: Raiffeisen House, CUNA Mutual Society office, 142 East Gilman Street. It was originally the Benjamin Franklin Hopkins house built in 1863.
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House on Bernard Court

Date: 12 19 1936
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...
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CUNA Employees at Raiffeisen House

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Eleven CUNA (Credit Union National Association) employees standing on the porch of their office at Raiffeisen House, 142 East Gilman Street.
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Mexican Migrant Workers

Date: 07 15 1948
Description: A Mexican woman and her six children are standing on the porch of the multiple-family housing provided to them by the pea cannery for which their husband a...
Book or Pamphlet

Keystone Tillage Implements Catalog Cover

Date: 1914
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Keystone line of tillage implements. Features an illustration from behind of a man standing o...
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Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 08 08 1946
Description: Helene Stratman-Thomas, possibly at the home of Donalda La Grandeur, a singer of French-Canadian songs who recorded for Stratman-Thomas.
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Donalda La Grandeur and Helene Stratman-Thomas

Date: 08 08 1946
Description: Singer Donalda La Grandeur, left, and collector Helene Stratman-Thomas on the porch at the home of La Grandeur.
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Stanley Lumber Company Offices in Chippewa Falls

Date: 1903
Description: Stanley Lumber Company's office entrance way and porch. Built about 1890.
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F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Company

Date: 1903
Description: F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Company office and lumberyard.
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Baird Law Office

Date: 1910
Description: Front view of the Baird Law Office before reconstruction.
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Baird Law Office

Date: 1954
Description: View of front of the Baird law office. A large stone building is in the background.
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Baird Law Office

Date: 1957
Description: View of the Baird law office, removed from its original location to the lawn of the Brown County Court House.
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Suhr Residence

Date: 1914
Description: The John J. Suhr residence, 121 Langdon Street, built in 1886 for immigrant John J. Suhr, Sr. (1836-1901), who in 1871 founded the German-American Bank, la...
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Dr. Thompson's Office

Date: 1900
Description: View from street towards Dr. Thompson's office, a small building with a front porch framed by two columns, and located between two larger buildings.
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 06 22 1945
Description: Group of men and women listening to a speaker at the Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Il...
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Abraham Lincoln School, Summer Institute

Date: 07 17 1945
Description: Group of students listening to a lecture on a porch. The Abraham Lincoln School for Social Science of Chicago, Illinois, sponsored a Summer Institute in Ma...
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Harvesting Corn

Date: 1902
Description: A farmer is using a corn binder, while two other men are collecting the shocks. A farmhouse is in the background with several individuals standing on the p...

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