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Unloading Coal

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Description: A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr...
Photograph

Boxed Artillery Cart Ready for Shipment

Date: 05 17 1918
Description: Boxed 240 mm mortar cart ready for shipment to the U.S. military from International Harvester's McCormick Works. Includes a trench mortar barrel. A man is ...
Map or Atlas

La Crosse, Wis.

Date: 1873
Description: Bird's-eye map of La Crosse from the Mississippi River.
Photograph

CUNA Shipping Room

Date: 12 05 1935
Description: Three employees in the CUNA (Credit Union National Association) shipping room, 142 East Gilman Street.
Photograph

International R-110 Delivery Truck

Date: 01 1953
Description: R-110 delivery truck owned by Simpson Trucking Company, Atlanta, Georgia.
Postcard

Elevated View of Downtown and River

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of downtown. Part of the Milwaukee River is on the left side. Sign for the Germania building is in the lower right, and city hall is in the b...
Photograph

Elevated Town View

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Description: Elevated view of a town located along a hilly shoreline.
Photograph

Town and Tongass Narrows

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Description: View of town toward Tongass Narrows where a ship sails on the water.
Print

Wisconsin Chair Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Wisconsin Chair Company of Port Washington, Wisconsin, with its McLean patented swing rocking chair set against a circular background with ...
Photograph

Aerial View of Ashland

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Description: Aerial view of town, showing the shoreline of Lake Superior, ore docks, roads, houses, buildings, trees, and smokestacks. Text describing this photograph s...
Photograph

Canadian Ship at Michela Coal & Wood Dock

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Description: Elevated view over railroads tracks of Canadian ship with cargo of wood pulp. Sulphide bales are being unloaded and there are several men on the ship. In t...
Photograph

Man Using Horse-Drawn Mower near Shoreline

Date: 1900
Description: View from rear of a man using a horse-drawn mower along a shoreline at League Island. A man is standing near him on the right. In the background on the lef...
Photograph

Tractor Seat Wired for Shipment

Date: 06 06 1922
Description: A tractor seat wired for shipment.
Photograph

Machine Crated for Shipping at McCormick Works

Date: 05 19 1913
Description: Machine crated for shipping sitting outdoors in the yard. There is a man holding up the side of a small white backdrop behind the crate. There are railroad...
Photograph

Binder Disassembled and Banded for Shipping

Date: 04 13 1914
Description: Binder disassembled and banded for shipping outdoors on a loading dock at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Harvester Thresher Packaged for Shipping

Date: 04 28 1916
Description: Harvester Thresher packaged for shipping in factory yard. Parts are stacked along the base of a brick building in the background.
Photograph

Harvester Thresher Packaged for Shipping

Date: 04 27 1916
Description: Harvester Thresher parts, including wheels, in factory yard. Some of the parts are packaged in crates for shipping. There is a backdrop behind the parts.
Photograph

Harvester Thresher at McCormick Works

Date: 04 27 1916
Description: Harvester Thresher packaged for shipping outdoors in factory yard. The crates are labeled in Russian. A backdrop is behind the crates.
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Reaper Packaged for Shipping at McCormick Works

Date: 03 27 1916
Description: Reaper packaged for shipping outdoors in factory yard. There is a backdrop behind the parts.
Photograph

Mower Packaged in Crate for Shipment at McCormick Works

Date: 04 27 1916
Description: Mower packaged in a crate for shipment to Vladivostok outdoors in the factory yard. There is a backdrop behind the parts.

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