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| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man driving a McCormick-Deering tractor to install a telephone pole on a city block. Other men are standing at the front of the ... |
| Date: | 04 28 1928 |
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| Description: | A man is holding onto a walking plow behind a team of two horses in a field. |
| Date: | 09 19 1960 |
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| Description: | Charles Henriksen, Baraboo, is shown laying floor tile in the new Samuel Gompers Elementary School under construction at 1502 Wyoming Way on the northeast ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View towards railroad tracks and men working with large pieces of stone. In the distance is the town of Berlin. Caption at bottom reads: "Granite Quarry — ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down two sets of railroad tracks. There is an empty cart on the left set of tracks, and one cart full of large pieces of stone on the right set of tra... |
| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man using a McCormick Deering hoist. A group of men are manually setting a lamppost or other object onto a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across the quarry toward three men standing on a ledge below a large rock face. Ladders are set up above and below the ledge. Another group of men are... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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... |
| 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: | 03 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Jerry Clarke, 217 Division Street, an employee of the Olson Glass Company, 625 Williamson Street, sprays a pane of glass with window cleaner before install... |
| Date: | 03 12 1959 |
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| Description: | Jerry Clarke, 217 Division Street, and William Frosch, 1134 Pauline Street, employees of Olson Glass Company, 625 Williamson Street, install a glass pane i... |
| Date: | 10 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz... |
| Date: | 06 06 1911 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Rib Lake, Wis.", "Loading." and "Brown Photo." A lumberjack is standing on a load of logs pulled by a team of horses. Three more men ... |
| Date: | 10 23 1909 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Scene Near Rice Lake, Wis." Five lumberjacks pose with a load of logs on a sled pulled by horses. Two skids lean against the logs. Th... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | A railroad worker cleans snow out of a railroad track switch with a broom. He is dressed warmly with a hard hat. |
| Date: | 10 20 1951 |
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| Description: | A man at the forge in Albert Smith's blacksmith shop. On the right is an Aetna No. 25 stove. Tools are hanging on the edge of the forge. |
| Date: | 06 29 1928 |
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| Description: | View across field towards two foremen on horseback. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men unloading manila or cotton at McCormick Works, under a partially covered loading dock. There is a water tower in the distance. |
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| Description: | Man working with leather at Pfister and Vogel tannery. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Women working in the N.R. Allen Sons tannery during World War I. The women are finishing leather. An older man is hauling a cart load of hides at center. |
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