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| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagons hauling coal from the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company holding up street car traffic on a busy Milwaukee street. |
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| Description: | A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Man standing in the bed of an International coal delivery truck owned by Thos. J. Kearney Jr., Inc. The man is shoveling coal and the truck is backed up to... |
| Date: | 10 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Seven coal delivery trucks and six drivers parked in front of eight different coal silos (Kathleen, Enos, St. David, Orient, Waukeegan, United, Pocahontas ... |
| Date: | 09 29 1931 |
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| Description: | Window display of Conklin & Sons Coal Co. showing scuttles of different kinds of coal, 24 E. Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 08 22 1931 |
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| Description: | Lineup of 14 White coal trucks from Castle & Doyle yards corner of Monroe and Regent Streets? Negative sleeve reads: "323 W. Johnson Street." |
| Date: | 12 26 1930 |
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| Description: | Three Fiore Coal and Oil storage tanks. |
| Date: | 02 07 1930 |
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| Description: | Van Buskirk coal saver window display for Heinze Sales Co. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Man delivering a bag of "Beaver" brand charcoal from an International SF-34 truck. The man worked for the Charcoal Supply Company of Quebec, Canada. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Charcoal kiln in an overgrown field. Producing charcoal was once a fairly large industry in De Pere. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Charcoal kiln in ruins in a field beyond a fence, with electric power lines in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Aerial view with fishing piers, coal factories, a bridge, and railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of ships sailing up the Fox River alongside the coal yards located in Green Bay. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from grassy shoreline towards the coal yards on the opposite shoreline. Buildings are in the distance. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of docks with ships tied up for the winter. The Reiss coal yard is in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the Fox River. The Green Bay Drop Forge Company are on the left, and the Reiss coal yard is in the distance in the center. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the Fox and East River confluence. On the right is the Northern Paper Mill, and a coal yard is to the left. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline towards the coal docks on the right, with several ships in the harbor. Caption reads: "Coal Docks, Capacity 100,000 Tons, Two Rivers, W... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the coke ovens at the Lehigh Coal and Iron Company. A group of men are posing in the foreground. |
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