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Steam Shovel Digging Borrow Pit

Date: 03 01 1919
Description: Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ...
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Construction of "Borrow Pit"

Date: 02 22 1919
Description: Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ...
Photograph

Workers and Steam Shovel in the Mud

Date: 1919
Description: Workers standing outdoors in the mud with a steam shovel. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin S...
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U.S. Marines

Date: 1944
Description: U.S. Marine Corps engineers excavating sand and rock with a steam shovel and a fleet of International trucks in the Pavuvu Islands. The International Harve...
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Riverside Cement's International Truck

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Description: Color photograph of a shovel loading an International truck owned by Riverside Cement. The truck is in a gravel pit or quarry.
Book or Pamphlet

How to Take Pictures of Motor Trucks

Date: 1938
Description: Front page of 4-page brochure with description of photographic rules. Features a photograph of a man standing on top of a dump truck holding a shovel, whil...
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Tractor Truck

Date: 1960
Description: A truck is being loaded from a steam shovel, and a man is standing on the gravel hill behind the truck. Sign on truck reads: "Palumbo." Caption reads: "Int...

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