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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down at workers at work below street level, with cranes and International trucks excavating area for the future New York City subway. On the r... |
| Date: | 04 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
| Date: | 03 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ... |
| Date: | 05 03 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers building a culvert over Maggard's Branch near mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed i... |
| Date: | 03 29 1919 |
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| Description: | Men building a dock along railroad tracks. The tracks run along a stream or small river. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Construction worker clears trees along a hillside with an International diesel TD-24 TracTracTor (crawler tractor). |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a large group of workers, along with women, children, and dogs, posing on the frame of the barn they are building. |
| Date: | 06 19 1911 |
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| Description: | Looking west over the Wisconsin River at the unfinished narrow gauge railroad trestle built for construction of the dam. Two pile drivers are seen in the a... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | This ceremony at Truax Field signaled the start of construction of the 120-unit apartment project for war veterans by the Madison Housing Authority. Henry ... |
| Date: | 04 23 1970 |
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| Description: | Four workers amid construction of food stalls out of plywood a day or two before the beginning of the Sound Storm music festival. |
| Date: | 04 23 1970 |
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| Description: | A group of three young workers amid construction of plywood stalls. There is a station wagon in the background. A few tents are set up on the hill in the b... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards... |
| Date: | 08 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers pose at the entrance of the old bridge. There are railroad tracks in the foreground with signs that read, "free bridge," "men working," and "cautio... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Construction workers pose at the entrance of the public school during construction. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace. |
| Date: | 03 17 1997 |
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| Description: | "Work begins on the new water tower south of Theresa." |
| Date: | 03 21 1997 |
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| Description: | "The base of the new water tower is now taking shape." |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of workmen posing with a partially built shed or corn crib. One man in sitting on the roof timbers. Two wagons with lumber are parked... |
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