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| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | A watercolor of a person flintknapping, a process used to make prehistoric stone tools. |
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| Description: | Several people, most wearing goggles and hats, are digging and moving dirt. Three men are behind a wire fence. On the left is a man in a suit. The rest of ... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of excavations of the first Fort Crawford by Leland Cooper. Seven people are working around the trenches. Villa Louis is in the background. |
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| Description: | View of interior of a Madison bike shop. Small & Stevens Bike Shop on State Street. The person sitting in the foreground on the left is believed to be Hubb... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Three people standing in a field watching a missile replacement (large trailer lifted at an angle behind a barbed wire fence) at an Mx installation. Near t... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One man is sighting a transit level, and another man is holding a round metal post as a crew of six people "sets a corner" in a Jackson County forest. Ther... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Studio group portrait of fifteen men and women posing together in front of a painted backdrop. Some of the people are holding weaving tools. |
| Date: | 11 1947 |
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| Description: | A person is kneeling next to objects that have been unearthed. Caption reads: "Excavation in circular mound on R. J. Harker property, Frost Woods, Monona, ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Lawson plant. At least 18 people are working in the large, open room. Belt-driven machinery is attached to the rafters of the open cei... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a machine shop, where several people are standing and working at lathes. Around the shop are piles of machined parts, all of which are cyl... |
| Date: | 11 20 1926 |
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| Description: | Six people, including Alonzo Pond (standing in the hole on the right side), work at an archaeological dig site in Algeria. The diggings were worked in leve... |
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| Description: | A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, and horse-drawn wagons. One ma... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Group of people decorating the Garden Queen float for a Fourth of July parade near a large garage. The float reads "Greendale-The Garden City," "Pop. 2800"... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of blind men learning carpentry skills at the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returni... |
| 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: | 06 16 2001 |
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| Description: | Herbert V. Kohler, Jr. presented with an oversized wooden mallet at the grand opening of the rebuilt Herrling Sawmill. He is wearing a suit with a boutonni... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View of group of construction workers lifting stonework into place with a large wooden structure supporting a winch and pulley system during the during the... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View looking down toward construction workers moving a stone slab for the facade into place during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Far... |
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