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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Advertising card from an exhibition of the Herring-Curtiss "Golden Flyer" in which Glenn Curtiss had won the first Gordon Bennett trophy at Rheims. The exh... |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Elias Durand (1794-1873), French botanist. Left France and came to America after the downfall of Emperor Napoleon. Es... |
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| Description: | First textile workers organizing convention. Cole Dandenburg with his wife on left. Zilphia Horton, Myles Horton on right. |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a male grounds keeper operating a horse-drawn mower on the grounds of an estate. A pond with lily pads and a gazebo are in the foreground,... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a farmer operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. The words "E Rees Howard Farm. Newton Square Phila." have been etched into the emulsion of ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Men using an Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader to work on an urban street. The grader was owned by the State Paving and Construction Co. Original caption states: "G... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Men using a Number 3/2 Adams Motor Grader for road construction on Pine Street in Philadelphia. A laundry store is on the corner. |
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| Description: | Double extension gantry crane with a grab-bucket at the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. The crane is stamped with the text "Pawling & Harnischfeger Builders, Mil... |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 40-ton type "A" outdoor gantry crane located at the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. There are men standing near a horse-drawn cart as wel... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 2-ton monorail hoist in the William Wharton Jr. & Co. rail storage house. There's a man in the cab and the text on the cab reads "P... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Bronze statue honoring the banker and philanthropist Stephen Girard that stands next to the City Hall. A small portion of its facade forms the background ... |
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| Description: | A view of the Coining Room, with men and women working at various machines. Large pallets of boxes, on wheels, sit in the central aisle, on the left. Capti... |
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| Description: | A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Two men use a slide to load boxes from the loading dock on the second floor of the Welsbach Street Lighting Company onto the bed of one of the company's Mo... |
| Date: | 03 30 1925 |
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| Description: | A man loads a wooden box containing a casket onto the back of a Model 33 International truck owned by the National Casket Company. |
| Date: | 03 30 1925 |
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| Description: | Men loading bushels of fruit and vegetables onto the back of a Model 63 International truck owned by the McCray & Hunter company. A loading dock of a brick... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Two workers are placing refuse in a garbage truck. One is an African-American man in a jacket, hat, and gloves and carrying a trash can. The other man is f... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | An older man is standing in an office, possibly a weigh station of the Philadelphia Street Department. He is at a bench with papers and various office supp... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | An African-American man is working on a truck engine. He is wearing a hat and overalls, and is using what appears to be a ratchet and extension. The truck ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A garbage truck is backed up and emptying refuse into what is likely an incinerator. A man is standing at the open driver's door, and another man is sittin... |
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