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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 1950
Description: A group of cranberry harvesters at work.
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Crucible Steel Casting Company

Date: 1946
Description: Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting.
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Fire Fighters on Ladders

Date: 1910
Description: Fire fighters on ladders climbing up to the windows of a burning building.
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Man on Tall Ladder

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Description: Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil...
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International VCO-202A Fire and Rescue Truck Battling Fire

Date: 1963
Description: Fire fighters use an International fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a training exercise. ...
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Women Metal Fabricators

Date: 1946
Description: Women workers at Moe Brothers.
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Weldering, Agricultural Short Course

Date: 1950
Description: Two students welding at the University of Wisconsin Agricultural Short Course.
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Miners at Work inside Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Two miners at work with shovel and hammer inside International Harvester's Hawkins Mine.
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Klein Dickert House Painters

Date: 06 03 1935
Description: Three Klein-Dickert Co. painters with two ladders are painting a house located at 2315 Rugby Row.
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Madison Royal Airport Repair Shop

Date: 05 26 1932
Description: The repair shop of the Morey Airplane Company at Royal Airport in Madison. Only months after this picture was taken, Howard Morey lost both his hangar and ...
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Workers Crate International Trucks for Export Shipment

Date: 1930
Description: Four workers crating up International motor trucks for export shipment at International Harvester's Springfield Works (factory). One of the men is wearing ...
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Howard Sechrest Welding

Date: 08 07 1939
Description: Howard Sechrest, of Howard Welding & Machine Co., wears goggles and welds in the boiler at the Loraine Hotel.
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Olive Charboneau Mixing Pie Dough

Date: 02 13 1932
Description: Wood County 4-H girl, Olive Charboneau of Vesper, mixing pie dough in the Madison Gas and Electric Co. demonstration kitchen. This was during the competiti...
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Gardner Bakery

Date: 04 02 1928
Description: Gardner Baking Company, showing men taking Purity Bread from ovens, 849 E. Washington Avenue.
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On Watch

Date: 09 1958
Description: Silhouette of a guard patrolling while wearing a helmet and carrying a bayonet.
Print

Fire Company Invitation

Date: 02 04 1864
Description: Embossed invitation to the fourth masquerade ball of the Madison Fire Engine Company #2. The invitation depicts a fire fighter on a ladder carrying a woman...
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Fire Fighter's Diploma

Date: 1869
Description: Diploma awarded to fire fighter James Richard Cummings for his service to Madison in 1869. The diploma is illustrated with scenes of fire fighting heroics,...
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Railroad Repair Work

Date: 
Description: Group of men repairing railroad track near Racine.
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Fire Department at Northern Hospital for the Insane

Date: 1893
Description: Institutional fire fighting department at the Northern Hospital for the Insane, executing drills on the exterior of the building. Fire fighting equipment i...
Book or Pamphlet

International Fire Trucks

Date: 1934
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1934 line of International fire trucks, featuring an illustration of fire fighters climbing up a ladder, wit...

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