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| Description: | The Buffalo and Susquehanna Iron Company, the owners of the rights to Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine, was created in 1902. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of steam shovels at work, removing taconite from Susquehanna Open Pit Iron Mine, functioning as an open cast mine because of its soft, shallo... |
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| Description: | Miners at work using steam shovels and railroad cars for transporting iron ore in Virginia, located on the Mesabi Iron Range. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several teams of work horses pulling Old Dominion wagons loaded with dirt at a rural construction site. There is a steam shovel working at... |
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| Description: | View of Leathem D. Smith Stone Company, which expanded after 1918. A factory building is in the background, and a steam shovel is working in the foreground... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men drive an International truck up a dirt road along the Colorado River during the construction of the Hoover Dam in Black Canyon. There is a steam, or po... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Bulldozers and steam shovels prepare the site for the future University of Wisconsin Observatory site near Pine Bluff. |
| Date: | 01 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Work on the new Tenney Park lock and dam is progressing on schedule. A temporary spillway (not shown) has been built to divert the Yahara River from the co... |
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| Description: | A man stands on a W & M railroad car known as a steam shovel. |
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| Description: | View of a construction site, with a ditch in the foreground. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a steam shovel working on a hill by a railway and water tank. Location identified as the cutting down of German Hill for fill to reconstruct t... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down at men standing with trucks near a steam shovel working near a rock face. |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View along street towards pedestrians on the left. On the right, below street level, are construction workers standing below street level near trucks and a... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at men driving dump trucks and operating a steam shovel and a crane below ground level at a construction site. On the opposite s... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View of rubble along an exposed rock face. Construction equipment is in the far distance. |
| Date: | 07 25 1927 |
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| Description: | Men driving tractors pulling trailers, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine. On the far right is a steam shovel. |
| Date: | 06 02 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working outdoors in a rocky area, perhaps a quarry. One man is operating a steam shovel. |
| Date: | 09 22 1927 |
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| Description: | View towards an earthmover dumping dirt into the back of a truck. The sign on the back of the earthmover reads: "Hanson." There are buildings in the backgr... |
| Date: | 09 22 1927 |
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| Description: | View down road towards a man using an earthmover for road repair. There is a truck parked on the roadside on the left, and a stack of pipes is near the roa... |
| Date: | 09 22 1927 |
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| Description: | In the foreground a man is working near a row of pipes. Behind him a man is operating an earthmover. |
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