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School Boys Raising a Garden

Date: 04 18 1917
Description: Young boys digging a garden in an urban setting on "Mowhawk Street near Larrabee." Original caption reads: "Newberry School boys who have gotten into the h...
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Mailman

Date: 07 11 1981
Description: A male mail carrier taking a break sitting in a mailbox on the sidewalk in a neighborhood.
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Henry Bigalk and Emil Kuney (Keune)

Date: 1906
Description: Henry Bigalk relaxes in a wheelbarrow holding an axe in his left hand, while Emil Kuney (Keune) is grabbing the wheelbarrow handles as if to transport Biga...
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Ho-Chunk Man Performing Handstand

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Description: Ho-Chunk man performing a handstand in front of two Ho-Chunk men standing on the left. There is a child sitting in one of several horses horse-drawn wagons...
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Championship Hose Team

Date: 1905
Description: Young men on a championship hose team wear uniforms while pulling a cart along a road.
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Christian Barn — Exterior

Date: 2004
Description: Dale Christian lives at W1728 Racoon Rd (Section 29). This farm has been in the Christian family since 1848.
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Leader Messenger Service Truck

Date: 05 31 1938
Description: An International D-15 truck owned by Leader Messenger Service is backed up to a loading dock, and a man on the dock is pushing a wheeled cart.
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John Edmunds' Charter Oak Grist Mill

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Description: Two girls and a boy posed by a tree in front of a two-story wooden building, probably the John Edmunds' Charter Oak grist mill built on Squaw Creek in 1866...
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Hable and Krueger Families

Date: 06 1899
Description: Julius Hable sitting in a horse-drawn buggy. Immediately to the left standing is August Hable, and August Krueger who is standing next to him. In the foreg...
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Worker Resting Against Cart

Date: 08 15 1911
Description: A man dressed in light overalls and a stripped button-up shirt is leaning against a cart in a factory yard at International Harvester's Osborne Works (late...
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Man Emptying Trash Barrel into Garbage Truck

Date: 1973
Description: An African-American man is dumping a barrel of trash into an International Harvester Scout with a dump body driven by another African-American man. They ar...
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Workmen at Mechta

Date: 1927
Description: Workmen excavate at an archaeological site at Mechta. M. Bebruge is the man in the foreground. A man sitting on the ground in the background on the right i...
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Alonzo Pond and M. Debruge

Date: 11 12 1926
Description: Alonzo Pond and colleague, M. Debruge, posing for a photograph at Mechta. M. Debruge has a cigarette in a holder in his hand, and both men are wearing coat...
Painting

Expedition with Supply Cart

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Description: An illustration created using cutout photographs and white, gray and black paint on cream colored paper. The scene depicts, in profile, a man pulling a loa...
Postcard

Railroad Loading Platform

Date: 1924
Description: Railroad loading platform with a Gurney Refrigerator Company plant in the far background. On the far left a man pulls a hand cart, in the center a man sits...
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The Twins Playing with Twin Calves

Date: 04 1906
Description: Jennie and Edgar Krueger playing with twin calves in the yard. The calves are attached to each other with a yoke and are pulling Jennie in a small cart. Ed...
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William Wendorf on the Wendorf Farm

Date: 12 1904
Description: William Wendorf standing in the snow in front of barn and windmill wearing a long fur coat. A horse pulling a buggy is standing with two individuals near t...
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Portrait of Kent Wood

Date: 1897
Description: Outdoor portrait of Kent Wood sitting on a wooden wheelbarrow against a wall holding a pipe. He has his right arm resting on a wooden box. A dog (at the ed...
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Buggy Pulled by Bull

Date: 1913
Description: Alex Scholz and an unidentified woman sitting in a buggy attached to a trained bull in the middle of a field.
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Horse and Buggy Ride

Date: 1899
Description: Sarah Krueger and five Hable children riding a horse-drawn buggy down a road. Sarah is holding the reins.

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