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Man with Thresher at McCormick Works

Date: 10 04 1916
Description: A man is standing and holding onto a part of a Thresher outdoors in the factory yard. Part numbers are written in chalk on the machine. A brick building is...
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Men Working in Manufacturing Are of Factory

Date: 01 06 1928
Description: A group of men are working with machinery in a factory.
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Hay Stacker at McCormick Works

Date: 04 13 1908
Description: Hay Stacker parts crated on loading dock. A man is standing on the right holding up a backdrop.
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International Body Lifted Off the Production Line

Date: 1961
Description: Man helping to move an International Scout body being lifted onto the next portion of its production stage. Assembly line image from International Harveste...
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Domestic Science Dining Room, Indian Training School

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Description: Several women in dresses are seated at a table in a formally decorated room. A woman stands holding a tray at the end of the table. The image appears in a ...
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Charles Hoffhine and his Jewelry

Date: 11 02 1960
Description: Charles Hoffine, shown in his basement workshop where he creates jewelry. He and his wife found many of the gem stones on the shores of the Great Lakes. Ho...
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Settlement Along A Railway with Locomotive

Date: 1900
Description: A camp or settlement located along a railway in Iron County, WI. Residents and a dog are pictured in the foreground, with a locomotive in the background ne...
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Aaron Bohrod

Date: 1948
Description: Elevated view of a man holding a paintbrush to a painting on a drafting desk. Several framed paintings are on the ground. Caption reads: "Madison, Wis. 194...
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Carol Baumann (Mrs. Richard J. Baumann)

Date: 09 20 1960
Description: Carol and Dick Baumann do a lot of their household tasks together so that they will have more leisure time to spend with their baby daughter and in sharing...
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We Saw You . . . at Labor Day Event

Date: 09 05 1960
Description: More than 300 people attend the annual Labor Day program sponsored by the Madison Federation of Labor at the Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park Street. Shown (L-R)...
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Oregon Observer Press Room

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Description: Five men are standing around a table, examining newspapers. A sixth man is running a press in the background. Caption reads: "Oregon, Wis. Oregon Observer,...
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Polishing Shed and Polishers

Date: 1910
Description: View down railroad tracks toward a group of men posing outside in front of the open doors of a shed. Round polishing stones are laying on the ground on the...
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Blacksmith Shop

Date: 1910
Description: Four men are posing inside the blacksmith shop at Montello Granite Co.
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Scenes from the Life of a Minister's Wife

Date: 03 23 1959
Description: When Joan Carlton of Oakpark, Illinois married Reed Forbush of Appleton, Wisconsin she was skeptical of life as a minister's wife. Now, as a series of phot...
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Contact Sheet-Slaughtering Pigs

Date: 1947
Description: A contact sheet showing workers slaughtering and butchering pigs at Tobin Packing Co. The image at bottom right is of a man in a white coat sitting behind ...
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Processing Meat

Date: 1945
Description: Workers process meat at P. Brennan & Co. Two men are working in the foreground, and two women are working in the background.
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Interior View of P. Brennan & Co

Date: 1945
Description: Two workers at P. Brennan & Co.
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Christmas on the Bayles Farm

Date: 12 16 1958
Description: Grandma Bayles rolling out Christmas cookies in the farm kitchen with Ann Denise, 3, and baby Gale, 5 months, nearby. One in a series of images depicting C...

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