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Filter: Subject of construction workers
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down at workers at work below street level, with cranes and International trucks excavating area for the future New York City subway. On the r... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Workers are removing dirt for the construction of the New York City subway with a Bucyrus shovel loader and an International truck. The workers are below s... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction site surrounded by buildings in what appears to be an industrial area. A sign on the building on the left side of reads: "W... |
| Date: | 10 01 1928 |
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| Description: | A man operating what appears to be a 10-20 Industrial tractor equipped with an Acme Road Roller(?) attachment. In the background a man is sitting in a vehi... |
| Date: | 10 09 1928 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the cab of a "McCormick Works International Harvester No.1" crawler-based crane with an earth moving attachment. The crane is loading a... |
| Date: | 10 15 1928 |
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| Description: | Two IH trucks for "W.E. Draper Cartage" are parked on the side of the road. Both trucks are hauling large concrete tubes, probably for construction work. T... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Several men are standing and sitting around a construction site at International Harvester's Osborne Works. Lumber is stacked in the yard, and in the backg... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Several men are standing around a construction site at International Harvester's Osborne Works. There are wheelbarrows filled with building materials and s... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Four men are lifting a large piece of beam during the construction of a factory building, most likely at International Harvester's Osborne Works. There is ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Several men are standing and posing next to a large pit. The men, dressed in work clothes, are equipped with shovels. There is a truck backed up to the pit... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across street in winter of the McCormick Works Club House. In front of the club house is a man standing on a loaded horse-drawn wagon parked ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad cars are on railroad tracks running along the buildings under construction. Men are wor... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad cars are on tracks in the foreground. A large smokestack is in the center. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad tracks are in the foreground below. A partially built smokestack is in the center. A number of c... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of construction on the Santa Fe building at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men laying pipe in a field. An industrial tractor on the left has a pulley to lower the pipe. Behind the men is a horse-drawn wagon and another piece of ma... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View along street towards pedestrians on the left. On the right, below street level, are construction workers standing below street level near trucks and a... |
| Date: | 08 18 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down at a man driving a dump truck filled with large boulders through a construction site with puddles of water. |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down towards a man driving a dump truck through puddles of water at a construction site. In the background men are working among rocks and roc... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at men driving dump trucks and operating a steam shovel and a crane below ground level at a construction site. On the opposite s... |
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