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| Date: | 07 24 1900 |
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| Description: | Engineer E.A. Johnston operating a single-cylinder version of the McCormick Auto-Mower at the McCormick Works. Johnston was Director of Engineering for the... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Illustration of an elevated view over rooftops looking towards Oshkosh. There are chimneys along the horizon with smoke rising into the sky. A river is alo... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A long row of Oliver Plows hitched to three Mogul 45 tractors. A two-pony cart and driver are parked in front of the plows. |
| Date: | 06 23 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers in trial fields of the Leonard Seed Company, with the processing plant in the background. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Workers bundle and transport fiber at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Bundling the dry fiber or transporting ... |
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| Description: | Next to a billboard, a road cuts through a field of petroleum derricks. |
| 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: | A vast oil field displays how Oklahoma became the the largest oil-producer in the country. Caption reads: "Oil Fields near Tulsa, Okla." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | At Glenn Pool Oil Field, oil was first discovered on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Chesley. The Glenn Pool has produced 340 million barre... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the oil rigs. Oil was first discovered at Glen Pool oil on November 22, 1905 by Robert Galbreath and Frank Chesley. The Glenn Pool has pro... |
| 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A view of rows 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... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Tulsa, and its vast oil fields. Caption reads: "Oil Fields Near Tulsa, Okla." |
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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." |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power dam on the Wisconsin River at Prairie du Sac. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Rear view of man on Titan 10-20 Tractor. The stencils are on the back of the tractor. In the background is a field, and what appears to be a factory. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Marinette looking toward the mouth of the river from the tower of City Hall. Fences, fields, and industrial buildings are in the foregroun... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of five children walking in a field behind what appears to be tenement housing. Wooden fire escapes are attached to the rear of the buildings... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Pallets of lumber in the Chippewa Lumber & Boom Company Lumber Yard. Smoke comes from smokestacks in the background. Cows are in the field in the foregroun... |
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