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| Date: | 05 16 1942 |
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| Description: | Men use a crane to work on the "Micro-Westco Addition" at International Harvester's Quad-Cities Tank Arsenal. The text on the crane reads: "Universal; Exca... |
| Date: | 07 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Men pouring and smoothing cement on the construction site of the Ordnance Steel Foundry Company. The Foundry may have served as part of International Harve... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | An International truck owned by the Houston-Starr Company parked in front of what appears to be a gravel chute and other storage buildings. |
| Date: | 07 03 1942 |
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| Description: | Men work on the interior of a partially constructed building at International Harvester's Quad Cities Tank Arsenal. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | An original New York Central Lines railway lithograph promoting Ashtabula Harbor, Lake Erie, as the location "Where Trainloads of Appalachian Coal are Exch... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An oil derrick and a steel tank are reflected in a pool in Tulsa. |
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| Description: | An oil scene on the Cimarron River, 100 miles from Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 b... |
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| Description: | Carthage was once well-known for the fine-grained, extremely dense grey limestone, "Carthage Marble," that came from the stone quarries. Caption reads: "St... |
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| Description: | An unfinished architectural project at Carthage Building Stone Company, which was managed by J. P. Newell with Millard Bryan as superintendent. By 1914, lo... |
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| Description: | A view of a crane unloading sugar cane onto boxcars on a track at the Sugar House. Several men and two horses pulling a wagon are on the right. |
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| Description: | Semet-Solvay was founded in 1894, manufacturing coke and its by-products. Caption reads: "Semet-Solvay Coke Ovens, Lebanon, PA." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Construction on National Tube Works was commenced in 1903. The first pipe was made February 10, 1905 and the tube mills were completed the following year. ... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | An excavation bucket hanging by cables from a crane at the Harlem River cement works. A cloudy sky forms the background and dirt falls from the bucket. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Two men in suits watch four large cranes working to construct the World Trade Center. The cranes sit atop an extensive metal-beam structure and the men ar... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Two workers talking while standing at the site for a new silo. The pit and foundation for the silo is in the background. A third man is standing near a der... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Pit silo derrick with self dumping skip attached. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Pit silo with derrick in a snow-covered farm yard. Cows stand behind the silage box. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men and women at the construction site for a new pit silo. One man is squatting at the edge of the pit near a derrick, while two women are standing behind ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men and women at the construction site for new pit silo. One man is squatting at the edge of the pit near the derrick, while two women are standing behind ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men loading dirt into a wagon while digging for a new pit silo using a derrick. Two women are standing in the background. |
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