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| Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Ruins of building showing smokestack still standing after the Peshtigo fire. A group of men are standing on the left. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Paving block cutters at work at the the Montello Granite Company. Two men holding large hammers are posing underneath a tarp which is shading large pieces ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Milwaukee River from Walker's Point Bridge. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory. |
| Date: | 06 15 1936 |
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| Description: | Two workers loading large steel castings into the back of an International C-15 truck outside a Wehr Steel Company building. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Iron mines with railroad tracks three miles south of North Freedom, in La Rue. One the left are buildings with three large smokestacks; on the right is mac... |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye views of various sections of Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 12 14 1931 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Madison industrial district taken from the top of the Madison Gas and Electric Co. gas tank looking south west down the 600 and 700 blocks o... |
| Date: | 06 21 1911 |
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| Description: | Man sitting on an experimental lightweight tractor. The photograph was probably taken outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption i... |
| Date: | 04 20 1929 |
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| Description: | Railroad tracks and waterway outside International Harvester's Deering Works. The Deering Works was owned by the Deering Harvester Company before 1902. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the West Milwaukee shops of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad. |
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| Description: | View across snow-covered railroad tracks towards Wisconsin Central's locomotive #4002. Industrial buildings are sending steam or smoke through smokestacks ... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Appleton Wisconsin Electric Light and Power Plant, 1922. Switchboard equipment of the plant, which began operating in September of 1822, is at the State Hi... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill... |
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| Description: | Elevated view across river toward the power plant, along with a bridge, trees, and smokestacks. Caption reads: "Water Power, Fox River, Appleton, Wis." |
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| Description: | View across water towards a factory built upon a shoreline. Caption reads: "Fox River Paper Company's Mills, Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill towards the Fox River and an industrial area through trees. A powerline is running across the skyline. Caption reads: "View on Fox ... |
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