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| Date: | 04 19 1928 |
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| Description: | Crushing and Loading equipment at gravel pit. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the brewery dwarfed by the overhead bluffs. The brewery was built by William Schmitz. George Scheibl ran the brewery from 1899 until his d... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Ruins of the commissary warehouse at Fort Winnebago, about 1898. Fort Winnebago was closed in 1845 and the land and buildings sold. Today, only the Surgeon... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A vast oil field displays how Oklahoma became the the largest oil-producer in the country. Caption reads: "A View of Oklahoma Oil Fields, Tulsa, Okla." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from hill of oil derricks and steel tanks at Glenn Pool Oil Field where oil was first discovered on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Ch... |
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| Description: | Oil wells in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. Caption reads: "Oil Wells near... |
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| Description: | An oil refinery field of the Union Petroleum Company. Caption reads: "Union Petroleum Co's. Oil Refinery at Wellsville, N.Y." |
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| Description: | The exterior of the high school. The building features a bell tower, tall chimney, arched doorway and Dutch/Flemish gable. There is a hand-powered well nea... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor), featuring an illustration of a T-20 in front of a photograph of ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International TD-9 Diesel TracTracTors (crawler tractors), featuring photographs of TD-9 crawler tractors in an agricu... |
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| Description: | View across fields and fences of three wooden buildings in the country, probably a mill. A man stands in the wagon drawn by a team of horses in front of on... |
| Date: | 06 1988 |
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| Description: | "This photo of the pipeline looks north on the Larry Luhn farm. The opposite looks south from the same point on the farm." |
| Date: | 06 1988 |
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| Description: | "Shirley Widmer stands near a gas line on Luhn farm." |
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| Description: | The stone quarry. There is a meadow in front of it. |
| Date: | 03 17 1997 |
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| Description: | "Work begins on the new water tower south of Theresa." |
| Date: | 03 17 1997 |
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| Description: | "A very muddy road leads to the water tower site." |
| Date: | 03 19 1997 |
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| Description: | "Newly poured cement is covered up as a protection for the very cold nights." |
| Date: | 04 17 1997 |
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| Description: | "Shirley Widmer poses on the now completed water tower base." |
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