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| Date: | 07 20 1914 |
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| Description: | Several men are looking at the statue "Wisconsin" as she rests on a low scaffold on the roof of the West Wing. The statue is wrapped with rope and attached... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | As part of a Wisconsin unemployment project, workmen dig a sewer trench by hand for the city of Spooner. |
| Date: | 07 20 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of men look on as the statue "Wisconsin" is lifted from the crate using ropes and pulleys. Ropes are wrapped around the statue and the statue's rig... |
| Date: | 08 06 1931 |
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| Description: | Five University of Wisconsin-Madison athletes (L. to R. Walter Gnabah, Russel Rebholz, George Wright, McClure Thompson, and William Eller) shoveling dirt a... |
| Date: | 08 1898 |
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| Description: | Summer kitchen at the Turville family farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Monument construction on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Workmen are standing around the perimeter of a large hole while others are dig... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was... |
| Date: | 04 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Annual University of Wisconsin-Madison student work day project located at Picnic Point. Shown posing together are the chosen "blue jeans" king and queen f... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | An older woman is splitting wood on a farm. She is wearing a dress and apron. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | E.B. Fred Hall, the first home of the bacteriology department, on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A person is shoveling dirt in front of the bu... |
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| Description: | A State Office Building construction site, downtown, with a view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Two men on the right are working with boards on sawhorses.... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Steam and smoke billow as a man is boiling maple syrup on the Harvey Blue farm. |
| Date: | 05 01 1938 |
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| Description: | The Wisconsin Worker's Alliance May Day parade float. The float has three workers on it with tools and signs read "Roosevelt's Recovery Program: Never More... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | A nine-year old Jamaican boy wearing a backwards cap, plaid jacket, jeans, and sneakers. He is holding two buckets and is looking at the camera. He is join... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | A man is cooking maple syrup over a wood fire among trees. Steam is billowing from the kettle. |
| Date: | 09 20 1949 |
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| Description: | Two Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources employees removing dead fish from the Yahara River near the Johnson Street bridge. The fish were evidently ki... |
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| Description: | Group of men repairing railroad track near Racine. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Fish nets and floats drying while wound onto wooden reels. Clouds are in the sky in the background. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers during construction of a paper mill. |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Cherry picking on the Door Peninsula. A man is pouring cherries into boxes from a bucket. |
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