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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across road of travelers on platform exiting the Lancaster train depot. A man sits on a horse-drawn wagon in front of the depot. |
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| Description: | View down hill of York Iron Works. On the left are charcoal kilns, and in the far background is the town. |
| Date: | 09 27 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men and horses standing atop the platform used to load wood into charcoal kilns, also known as pits. These kilns convert cord wood into ch... |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| Description: | Two buggies are sitting parked in from of "E.P. Phillips Coal Wood & Machinery" store, possibly an International Harvester dealership. The first buggy is p... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of two workers placing barrels of coal onto wheelbarrows to unload off a ship. Text at right: "Milwaukee and Vicinity, Photographed by H.H. Ben... |
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| Description: | View across what may be a metal roof towards a crowd of men looking at a collapsed structure of steel girders. The men are dressed in winter coats and hats... |
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| Description: | View across railroads tracks towards men walking around and examining a large industrial structure that has collapsed over a coal pile. |
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| Description: | Men and women walking around piles of coal while examining a collapsed structure in a coal yard. |
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| Description: | View across field towards a long building in the distance by an open field. Identified as the railroad coal shed in Millston. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the wood yard and office. The stone structure on the right is the remnant of the National Furnace Company, an iron ore smelting company. C... |
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| Description: | View across water towards ships unloading coal and sulphur. Cranes rise above both ships, and a man is walking near a large pile of coal in the background ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroads tracks of Canadian ship with cargo of wood pulp. Sulphide bales are being unloaded and there are several men on the ship. In t... |
| Date: | 12 16 1957 |
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| Description: | View across water, with cranes among piles of coal along the right, and among piles of other materials on the left. Smoke is in the distance on the right, ... |
| Date: | 12 17 1957 |
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| Description: | View of icy Lake Michigan from Ogden Street Bridge. There are piles of coal on the left and right, and what may be a jetty in the far distance. |
| Date: | 12 20 1957 |
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| Description: | View across harbor from small boat ramp towards far shoreline. On the far shoreline is industrial machinery, piles of coal, and other buildings. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | International VF-192 tandem dump truck with load of coal. Powered by V8-478 CID gas engine. Painted on the driver's side door: "Black Nugget Coal Mining Co... |
| Date: | 10 17 1923 |
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| Description: | Left side profile view of a delivery truck parked on a road. The sign painted on the side of truck bed reads: "E.C. Clark Coal Hauling. Vandergrift, PA." |
| Date: | 11 14 1923 |
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| Description: | Two men are posing with a coal delivery truck. The sign on the driver;s side door reads, in part: "J. Pehle, ...PLEWOOD, MO." The truck bed if full of mate... |
| Date: | 06 12 1924 |
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| Description: | View of a delivery coal truck with the bed raised. A sign painted on the side of the bed reads: "Chicago Fire Brick Co." In the background is a large brick... |
| Date: | 06 13 1925 |
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| Description: | A delivery truck with a pickup bed piled with material is sitting in the open doorway of the Shera Coal & Oil Co. building. A man is sitting in the open do... |
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