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Logging Crew Breaking to Eat

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Description: A few dozen men stand on and around a sandy path surrounded by low shrubbery. They are wearing work clothes, and some of them are carrying bowls filled wit...
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Town Skyline

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Description: Elevated view of park-like, lightly-wooded area with Duncan Creek running through it. A dirt road runs over a bridge to the left. The skyline of Chippewa F...
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Alfred Hitchcock and Walter Wanger

Date: 1940
Description: Alfred Hitchcock stands next to Gertrude Hoffman who is smiling and holding a birthday cake. Walter Wanger stands to the right of the woman, and Herbert Ma...
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Horses at a Logging Camp

Date: 1884
Description: The logging camp of Bruno Vinett. About a dozen horses, most in harness, and a similar number of men stand in front of a barn-like building and a small woo...
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Sugar Factory

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Description: A steam locomotive moves along a set of railroad tracks near a sugar beet processing plant with a tall smokestack. There are several small outbuildings in ...
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Portrait of Holt and Stroh Children

Date: 06 1906
Description: A group portrait of the Holt and Stroh children on a sunny day. Top row, left to right: Elizabeth Stroh, Alfred Holt, Jeannette Holt, Harriet Stroh, Margar...
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Lawson Plant Exterior

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view from field across pond towards Alfred Lawson's aircraft plant, with buildings and smokestacks. Men are working with a pile of lumber on the l...
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Alfred Lawson Endorsement Letter

Date: 09 14 1920
Description: Letter from Phil A. Grau, Business Manager for the Milwaukee Association of Commerce, to the Secretary of State for Illinois (Louis L. Emmerson), endorsing...
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Baseball Fans

Date: 1909
Description: Nathan McClure (l) and Alfred Holt (r) are dressed to play baseball. McClure is wearing a baseball glove and holding the ball. Holt is leaning on the bat. ...
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On the Seesaw

Date: 1910
Description: Grandfather Captain I.P. Rumsey, a Civil War veteran, is standing next to the wooden seesaw. Grandchildren Donald Holt (left) and Alfred Holt (right) are s...
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Tire Factory Interior

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi...
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"Foreign Correspondent"

Date: 1940
Description: A behind the scenes photograph of the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." Joel McCrea is on a platform high above a group standing below. Alfred Hitch...
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Lawson Tractor Biplane

Date: 1917
Description: A Lawson Tractor Biplane is parked in a field, in profile.
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Lawson Air Liner in Flight

Date: 1919
Description: A Lawson Air Liner is in flight over a field.
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Lawson Air Liner Taking Off

Date: 1919
Description: Oval framed image of a Lawson Air Liner taking off from a field.
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Mary Bell

Date: 1902
Description: Mary Bell, daughter of Mr. Bell, the President of the First National Bank of St. Louis, sits with head on hand and elbow leaning on a carved wooden pedesta...
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Portrait of Four Men

Date: 1886
Description: J.R. Sharp, P.E. Woodley, W.M. Bour, and R.M. Seymour sit and stand for a studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop wearing work clothes, ties, and ha...
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Fun on the Beach with Uncle Wallace

Date: 1900
Description: Smiling Uncle Wallace Rumsey is pushing a wooden wheelbarrow with Jeannette and Alfred Holt inside. They are on the dirt path leading to the swimming beach...
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Canoeing on Archibald Lake

Date: 08 1925
Description: Wearing a hat, Madeleine Wood Holt is smiling, sitting next to Helen Wood, on the floor of the canoe in Archibald Lake. With his back to the camera, Alfred...
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Breaking Log Jam on Chippewa River

Date: 1903
Description: Three barefoot boys stand on a pile of logs in the foreground looking across the river at a group of men working to free a log jam in the Big Eddy on the C...

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