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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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American Shipbuilding Company Yard

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Description: The American Shipbuilding Company yard in winter with ships and a derrick in the center of the image.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog Cover

Date: 1903
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph illustration of a ...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of harvesting machines, tillage and seeding implements. Features a...
Photograph

Airplane "William Horlick" in Antarctica

Date: 1938
Description: Curtiss-Wright Condor biplane named "William Horlick" outfitted with skis for use during Adm. Richard E. Byrd's second Antarctic expedition, 1933-35. The ...
Photograph

Roosevelt and Pinchot

Date: 1907
Description: Theodore Roosevelt in top hat and Gifford Pinchot aboard the Mississippi.
Photograph

Japanese Destroyer Under Attack

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Description: Aerial view of a Japanese destroyer under United States air attack.
Photograph

S.S. Santa Cruz Propeller

Date: 07 18 1966
Description: Propeller of the S.S. Santa Cruz. Falk caption reads, "Photos taken for reference in study of propeller reversing characteristics for SUN Marine red...
Photograph

Returning Soldier

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Description: A returning soldier hugs a woman on the dock, who is probably his girlfriend or wife. A military (naval?) ship is visible in the background.
Photograph

U.S.S. Wisconsin Launching

Date: 12 07 1943
Description: View of the battleship U.S.S. Wisconsin launching. A large group of spectators is gathered in the foreground.
Photograph

U.S.S. Wisconsin

Date: 1957
Description: U.S.S. Wisconsin docked on the Hudson River at Norfolk, during decommissioning ceremonies.
Photograph

John MacVane

Date: 1945
Description: John MacVane (left) standing and talking with another man on the deck of the "USS Missouri" in the Panama Canal.
Photograph

IH Assists After Earthquake in Guatemala

Date: 1976
Description: Slightly elevated view of three men standing outdoors and looking at a map. Behind them is a dump truck and a loader/backhoe. In the background is a city s...
Photograph

Clipper Ships at Waterfront

Date: 09 21 1907
Description: View of clipper ships at waterfront at McCormick Works. Stacks of lumber are near the wharf on the right.
Photograph

Aerial View of McCormick Works

Date: 1911
Description: Aerial view across river towards McCormick Works, including factory buildings, smokestacks and a railroad yard. A ship named Imperial is along the d...

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