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First to Fly — Almost Flying

Date: 1901
Description: Wilbur Wright (standing, second from the right) with Edward C. Huffaker, Octave Chanute, and George Spratt in the workshed. Chanute was a special visitor f...
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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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Davern's Bottling Works

Date: 05 12 1938
Description: Workers standing at a machine putting bottles into crates. One of the workers is wearing an apron and rubber knee-high boots. A McCormick-Deering eight can...
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Weighing a Bale of Sisal Fiber

Date: 1949
Description: A worker carefully weighs a bale of sisal fiber, possibly at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Weighing the bale of s...
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Early P&H 5-Ton Traveling Crane

Date: 1910
Description: Interior view of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger crane design with cab-operated dial controls. The stencil on the crane says "Pawling and Harnischfeger ...
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P&H 3-Ton Transfer Crane with Two Monorail Hoists

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton transfer crane with two 3-ton monorail hoists. The hoist on the left has an electromagnetic unit, and the one on the right ha...
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P&H Mobile Dragline

Date: 04 29 1916
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered mobile dragline with a horizontal trench digger in the background. A large group of men are standing and posing on...
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P&H Type "GN" Low Overhead Crane in Tanning Operation

Date: 1920
Description: View across room of tanks and a Pawling & Harnischfeger type "GN" low overhead crane in a tanning operation. Men are standing on the left towards the back ...
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UPWA Union Man

Date: 1944
Description: An unidentified United Packinghouse of America member. He is wearing badges that identify him as an employee at the Swift Company plant in Chicago and the ...
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Three Men With Machinery

Date: 09 1910
Description: Three men are standing with machinery, likely a sawmill, peripherally related to the Leighton-Wyoming mining operation.
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Titan 10-20 Tractor

Date: 1920
Description: Three-quarter front view of a Titan 10-20 tractor. A man wearing a hat is filling the tank. Stencils and/or decals are on the tractor.
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Diversified Farming Speakers

Date: 02 19 1915
Description: Speakers from the diversified farming program stand in front of a brick building near an awning. Each person wears a winter coat and brimmed hat, and there...
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Men Baling Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Group of men baling cotton in a warehouse.
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Men Baling Cotton

Date: 1905
Description: Men baling cotton in a warehouse.
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Urban Garden

Date: 1918
Description: A man is using a garden plow to cultivate an urban garden located near a row of commercial brick buildings.
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Locomotive Engine No. 1248

Date: 07 15 1915
Description: Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 1248, class I5, built by the company's shop in 1912. From left to right are waymaster Harvey Gi...
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Pump House for Irrigation

Date: 1900
Description: Men are standing next to a wooden structure, probably a pump house for an irrigation system. Water is streaming from the structure into a channel while the...
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Worker Resting Against Cart

Date: 08 15 1911
Description: A man dressed in light overalls and a stripped button-up shirt is leaning against a cart in a factory yard at International Harvester's Osborne Works (late...
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Polisher at Work

Date: 1910
Description: A workman poses beside a belt-driven polisher inside a shed at the Montello granite quarry. Two other men relax in the background near an open door where n...
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Man Driving Horse-Drawn Wagon Filled with Fauerbach Barrels on Blount Street

Date: 1910
Description: Joseph Bossart driving a horse-drawn wagon loaded with 37 empty beer barrels is parked in front of the International Harvester building on S. Blount Street...

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