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Woman Throwing Out Wash Water

Date: 1925
Description: Woman dumping wash water from a metal wash basin on the back step of her farmhouse.
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Woman Hauling Water

Date: 1920
Description: A woman carrying two metal buckets full of water away from a well pump near the porch of a farm house.
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Test Seining on Kentuck Lake

Date: 1958
Description: View across water towards men, women, and children sitting in metal boats on a lake. They are watching five men standing waist deep in the lake holding up ...
Photograph

Conversation, Riverside Park

Date: 1968
Description: Two women sitting on a bench in Riverside Park having a conversation. The picture is taken from behind with the shoreline far below the women in the backg...
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Gas-Powered Water Pump

Date: 10 1923
Description: A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experime...
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Picnic Island

Date: 1905
Description: A man is holding two small metal pails. A woman, just out of frame, is standing on the far right. A rowboat is in the foreground, and another pier is in th...
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Two Harley-Davidson Motorcycles

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Description: Two Harley-Davidson motorcycles are parked next to a sidewalk on the side of a dirt road. Just behind the motorcycles are a man and two women standing toge...
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On a Bridge Over Pine River

Date: 1910
Description: View from shoreline of a group of children and adults posing on and around a stone bridge over the river. Women and children stand and sit on the bridge's ...
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Camping along Long Lake

Date: 1967
Description: View towards a child, and a woman holding a baby at the shoreline of a lake. In the right foreground is a camper, and on the left is the front hood of a ca...
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Picnic on Shore of Flambeau River

Date: 1940
Description: A man, sitting on a wooden bench, and a woman, sitting on the ground, are enjoying a picnic on the shore of the Flambeau River. There is an open plaid meta...
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Jeannette Holt and the Garrisons Collecting Marine Life

Date: 1922
Description: Jeannette Holt (far left) is standing in the water near the shoreline with one foot up on a log. She is balancing a metal pail on her knee, which has a scr...
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Island Lodge Pastime

Date: 1918
Description: View from the lake of Miss Ransom washing clothes by hand, using lake water. Beside her on the pier is an enamel metal wash bowl. Archibald Lake is in the ...
Photograph

The Picnic

Date: 08 21 1922
Description: W.A. Holt and three of his adult children are picnicking under birch trees on the shore of Archibald Lake. From left to right: Jeannette Holt, wearing f...
Postcard

The Yahara River from City Park

Date: 11 19 1911
Description: Text on front reads: "The Yahara River from City Park, Stoughton, Wis." View from shoreline towards a river flowing through a town park. There are two boat...
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Pearl White Clamming

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Description: Actress Pearl White stands on the beach with two small boys — Billie and Buddie — one of whom is her nephew. The three are digging for clams. White wears a...
Historical Object

109 - Various Scenes Joy Camps

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Description: Page from Joy Camps photo album displaying seven photographs. Scenes depicted: canoes and campers on a lake; campers on a wooden footbridge; campers cookin...
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At the Dells

Date: 1926
Description: Members of the extended Brumder family pose on a pier at the Wisconsin Dells. A motor launch with "Olson Boat Co" painted on the side is moored at the pier...

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