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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: | 04 18 1913 |
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| Description: | View near crane operator looking down on coal car near exterior of building. Pawling & Harnischfeger type "O" bridge crane with a type "G" trolley in a fou... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster showing a Milwaukee brand mower, grain binder, hay rake and reaper manufactured by International Harvester Company. Features a color ill... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A ticket collector for the Milwaukee Electric Railway is sitting at her station. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi... |
| Date: | 10 14 1912 |
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| Description: | President Theodore Roosevelt leaving the Chicago and North Western depot after arriving in Milwaukee on his October 14th, 1912 visit, during which he was s... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Belle Case La Follette, wife of Robert M. La Follette, Sr., addressing a group of farmers during a tour on the Chautauqua circuit during which she frequent... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Bell Center depot with five men posing on the platform. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Color illustrations advertising poster for McCormick harvesting machinery showing two steers looking over a fence with images of a reaper, mower, binder an... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester 20 h.p. and 45 h.p. kerosene-gasoline Titan tractors. Imprinted with "Budapest, V., Vaczi ut 98." Includes a... |
| Date: | 08 1916 |
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| Description: | Richard Lloyd Jones, editor and publisher (1911-1919) of the Wisconsin State Journal, at his desk. |
| 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: | 08 03 1916 |
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| Description: | United Mine Workers Journal of Indianapolis, Indiana, with illustration of a skeleton with a scythe. The caption reads: "After two years--who wants me?" |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Osborne brand farm implements with six color illustrations. The largest is of a portrait of a woman holding flowers. The other color... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements featuring two men paddling a canoe in rough water. Also includes color illustrations of a reaper, ha... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick brand farm implements. Features a woman picking an apple with one hand and holding the bridle of a horse in the other. Als... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for Osborne brand farm implements showing a woman, child and dog enjoying a "group hug." Also includes color illustrations of a hay rake... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Drawing on front cover of German McCormick catalog depicting a farmer on a horse-drawn binder in a field next to rolling hills with trees. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Red, black and gold cover art for McCormick advertising catalog showing silhouette of a farmer on a horse-drawn reaper. |
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