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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Children working in a vegetable cannery as the supervisor with pipe in his mouth stands over them. |
| Date: | 02 22 1915 |
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| Description: | African American tenant farmers assembled for a barbecue. The tenants worked for Louis Frank Sessions who is in the front row, third from the left (wearing... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight i... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of farm workers, men and women, posing in a field, holding various beverages. One man has his arm over a barrel on a stand in the center. In the back... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen who worked on the construction of Taliesin I gathered in the workroom in front of the fireplace. Taylor Woolley's brother-in-law Clifford (Cliff) E... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men work in a zinc mine near Platteville, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 01 17 1919 |
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| Description: | Governor Emmanuel Philipp ratifying the 18th Amendment which made Prohibition law. From left to right: Executive Messenger, Samuel Banks; Senator George B.... |
| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers standing on the barge-mounted, steam-driven pile driver at work on the coffer dam. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Two women dressed as farmers stand next to a Deering push binder with a cigar and a pipe in their mouths. |
| Date: | 10 15 1918 |
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| Description: | Billets of the officers of the 310th Engineers at Mouilly, France, about a month before the armistice. They are identified as Barney Berssenbrugge, Fred Bo... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Using a portable, 4 x 5 glass plate negative camera, Van Schaick photographed Ho-Chunk on the streets of Black River Falls. These occasional pictures offer... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Group of men use a Titan tractor to power a silo filler. There are several wagons and a barn. A few of the men may be observers from International Harveste... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Men sit on a line of three McCormick grain binders hitched to a Mogul 25 h.p. tractor in a field. A young boy sits near a haystack in the foreground, and t... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A farmer wearing a straw hat and smoking a pipe examining or picking corn. Behind him is a team of horses pulling a wagon. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two men using a team of two horses to pull a corn shocker through a farm field. Both men are wearing hats, and one of the men is wearing a long overcoat an... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Large group of men, including railway workers, standing beside a locomotive. Original caption reads: "U.P. Nebraska Preparedness Special Campaign. Farm pre... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Man on a Reynolds hay tedder pulled by team of work horses. Another man stands supervising. In the far background beyond a fence are two separate farmstead... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A cartoon drawing of the statue of liberty with her hands in the air and her torch falling towards the ground. Below her are six men pointing guns at her.... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Front cover of the October issue of "Motor Mechanics" magazine featuring a photograph of a man smoking a pipe while using an Ebert tractor. |
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