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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Chromolithograph advertising poster for McCormick mowers and rakes. Features on the top half a young boy with a reaping hook/sickle and a young girl holdin... |
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| Description: | A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ... |
| Date: | 08 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background ... |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Harold and Gunhild Mickelson with five of their daughters (Bertha Mickelson Bragger and her husband are standing on the right), in Section 23 of the Town o... |
| Date: | 1878 |
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| Description: | A family of seven is sitting in the foreground around a table covered with books and flowers. Three young girls are sitting on the ground in front of the t... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | This is the second Herman Amberg Preus Spring Prairie parsonage. Four men in the foreground pose with rakes and tools. One man sights along a shotgun. Oth... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Two women and three men are posing in a yard. One man is holding a shotgun, another a carpenter's saw. The frame house behind them has a small front porch ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A couple with three children posing in a yard. The woman has a sewing machine, the man has a table saw and lathe. The two-story frame house has a glass pan... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | Allen E. Adsit is in the left foreground in this photograph and his father, Stephen Adsit, is seated at right. Seen near the house are a wooden rain barrel... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | A family is seated on the wrap-around porch, with two men posed holding shotguns standing below them at foundation level. There are two windows in the ston... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Family by wood fence with one child sitting on top of gate; wood house with upper window shutter closed and shutter trim around doorway; trellis by porch. ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of family in yard. Two women are posing on horses, one man has a rifle, and another man has a hoe. A woman is sitting in front of the porch ... |
| Date: | 08 29 1876 |
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| Description: | The extended family of Aslak Olsen Lie posing before the home he built in 1849 with his brother Ole after immigrating in 1848. The house is a combination o... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A large family group and workers pose in field in front of farming machinery and haystacks. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a barn raising on the farm of Alva Paddock in the township of Salem on Geneva Road, Highway 50. |
| Date: | 12 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Five University of Wisconsin students in the Community Leadership in Recreation curriculum are watching Prof. James Schwalbach demonstrate metal work in th... |
| Date: | 02 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Dorothea Schon, Sun Prairie artist, at work in her studio on her sculpture of Christ the King. When it is completed, the four and a half by three foot wood... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Potawatomi family standing in front of a log cabin. Elders identified the woman in the center as Mrs. Frank Young, and the man on the right as community le... |
| Date: | 06 14 1950 |
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| Description: | Hildur Hanson, receptionist in the "Wisconsin State Journal" editorial rooms, looks over the 25-piece tool kit which will be awarded for the best construct... |
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