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| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Cheesemaker standing on ladder putting cheese on storage shelf, along with rows of other cheeses. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Eight nurses in uniform posing in front of a building (probably their workplace). Some of the women are holding a bedframe, pail, and a broom, and other it... |
| Date: | 10 16 1965 |
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| Description: | High school boys in an industrial drafting class using drafting machines and compasses. |
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| Description: | A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Three workers pouring molten metal into small containers at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Worker assembling a tank at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two workers pouring molten metal from a crane-held vat into a mold to make castings at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two men working on engine components on an assembly line at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com... |
| Date: | 05 14 1964 |
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| Description: | A baker removes multiple loaves of bread from the oven for consumption in both bakery and restaurant. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with a man and young boy shoveling snow from a sidewalk after a heavy snowfall. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Workers tending the grounds of the Forest Home Cemetery using a McCormick-Deering I-12 tractor and wagon. |
| Date: | 12 19 1962 |
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| Description: | Hilgendorf's Hardware store clerk showing a saw to a customer. |
| Date: | 07 21 1884 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway employees taken outside the railroad's Milwaukee shop. Most of the men appear to be blue collar wor... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Oil on linen study of three Union Civil War soldiers drinking from and holding canteens. The painting is the work of one of the German panorama artists ac... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A worker operates a large machine at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works (factory). |
| Date: | 04 17 1921 |
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| Description: | Workers shoveling grain, possibly corn, onto a lake vessel. Probably on the lower Milwaukee River. |
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