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Sawmill Breaks Down

Date: 1935
Description: Original caption reads: "Building an empire? The sawmill breaks down and what a crowd of onlookers to 'supervise' repairs."
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Female Marine Carpenter

Date: 02 1945
Description: Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea...
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Cutting Logs

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Description: Stereograph of two men cutting logs ready for stripping and making into pulp at a paper mill. Caption reads, "7981-(b)-Cutting logs ready for stripping and...
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Hand Sawmill

Date: 1918
Description: Two men working outdoors using a hand saw to saw a piece of timber. In the background other people are working among stacks of timber. There is a large bui...
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U.S. Artillery Headquarters and Blockhouse on the Dvina River

Date: 1918
Description: The headquarters and blockhouse of the Unites States Artillery on the Dvina River, showing five uniformed men standing outdoors, and an artillery piece par...
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Cutting Firewood

Date: 1955
Description: Elna Krueger stands with another woman and a man while cutting firewood using a belt-driven saw by a tractor in a field in the background on the left. The...
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Laplanders with their Reindeer Sled Teams

Date: 1918
Description: A family of Laplanders with their reindeer sled teams. In the background are a house with its outhouses, and a group of people to the left of center, as we...
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I.W. Acker

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Description: Tintype portrait (slightly tinted) of Isaac Wagner Acker (left) and an unidentified individual. Acker was born in 1837 in Whetstone, Crawford County, Ohio....
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Boys' Woodwork Group at Neighborhood House

Date: 1923
Description: Group of boys at a woodworking session in the basement shop at Neighborhood House, with boys posing with various tools and planks of wood. In the far backg...
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Sawing Wood with a Steam Engine

Date: 04 03 1901
Description: Crew of men sawing wood with the use of a steam engine. A large pile of wood is stacked behind the saw. Alexander Krueger is standing between the steam eng...
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Engineer Sawmill

Date: 08 22 1943
Description: The sawmill for the engineers at the military camp on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). The soldiers are just ...
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Henry Miller Family

Date: 05 1902
Description: Henry Miller with his wife, three children, and sister-in-law, Lena Jaeger, chopping wood. Henry is sawing a log, while a woman is cutting wood with an axe...
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Splitting Wood

Date: 1935
Description: One of two images under the headline: "Trials of Pioneers Bring Families Closer Together." Original caption reads, in part: "Families are knit more closely...

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