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| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | In April of 1860 Hölzlhuber took the railway from Milwaukee to Lake Horicon to visit the small town that was developing on its shore. Since the settlers we... |
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| Description: | "Scenes of Camp and Army Life." Idyllic lithograph view of nine scenes of Union Army life. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | The driver of the wienermobile finds the entrance to the Oscar Mayer tent at the Wisconsin State Fair too low for it to get in. |
| Date: | 07 13 1945 |
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| Description: | German prisoner of war camp with tents and fencing surrounding the area. Several people are on the grounds. Prisoners are working in the local cannery. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Photomontage of a man, wearing a bow tie and straw boater hat, sitting on top of a giant ear of corn. A crowd of onlookers gather around the man, suggestin... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A group of men stand at a makeshift bar under a beverage tent where crates from Golden Grain Juice Company and Anheuser-Busch from St. Louis, Missouri, lin... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man is stooping down to fill a paper cup with a beverage from a barrel dispenser under a tent at what appears to be a fair. The barrel is marked "IHC Ser... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Fairgoers gather around the McCormick-Deering ball-bearing cream separator display at the Indiana State Fair. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Chow line for members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A group of men standing next to an outdoor bar raise mugs of beer at a Civilian Defense Rally. There is a tent and dwellings in the background. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | A man orders a beer from the outdoor bar at a Civil Defense Rally. The banners on the booth read "Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer On Draft" and "Greendale Civilian ... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Three men raising mugs of beer from behind the outdoor bar at a Civilian Defense Rally. In the background is a tent. |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing costumes as a part of a Civilian Defense Rally. The man on the left is wearing a straw hat, seersucker jacket, corsage, with a cane hanging... |
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| Description: | Ho-Chunk man wearing hat mounted on horse. He is holding what appears to be a glass bottle in his right hand. Another Ho-Chunk man is lying face down acros... |
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| Description: | Alice Cloud and Mrs. Mallory making frybread at a cranberry camp at Trow’s Marsh. The marsh extends from south of Merrillan to north of Millston. Frybread ... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con... |
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| Description: | View of a camp with a cook standing at the back end of a chuckwagon with a large bowl in front of him. To the left is a pile of logs, along with some pots.... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A Meadows stone burr grain mill powered by an International Harvester engine grinding wheat into flour at what appears to be an outdoor fair or exhibition.... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | Confederate soldier wearing a whiskey barrel with a cork helmet. On the barrel is the text: "RGG," "C.S.A. WHISKEY," "J.X.D." Caption below reads: "A membe... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a crowd of people gathered around a booth on Joe Wing's farm to eat during an alfalfa presentation. A sign on the booth reads, "Served by ... |
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