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Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1879
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor...
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Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 1866
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). This portrait was reportedly a favorite of his wife Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923). McCormick was a Chic...
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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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Falk Employee with a Steel Spur Gear

Date: 03 31 1905
Description: An unidentified Falk employee stands next to a large Steel Spur Gear. The sign in the photograph reads: "Cast Steel Spur Gear. Made by The Falk Co. Milwauk...
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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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Early Standard P&H Bridge Crane

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Description: Interior view of an early Pawling & Harnischfeger standard crane in a machine shop with a type "N" bridge and a type "A" trolley. There is an operator in t...
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An Early P&H Hoist Crane in Brewery

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Description: Interior view of Pawling & Harnischfeger hoist cranes in a Schlitz brewery where men are working with beer barrels.
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P&H Traveling Electric Monorail Hoist

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Description: Pawling and Harnischfeger traveling electric monorail hoist carrying a piece of equipment at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. There's an operator in th...
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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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Construction Workers

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Description: Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background.
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J.H. Yewdale Printing Company

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Description: Elevated view of male printers, hand-setting type in the workroom at J.H. Yewdale Printing Company.
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Machine Shop Workers

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Description: Four men in aprons and a boy stand outside a machine shop.
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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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Allis Chalmers Factory

Date: 1911
Description: Interior elevated view of an Allis Chalmers factory. Men are posing on the factory floor.
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Obey and Young at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) and Florida Congressman Young tour the destruction at the World Trade Center with an FBI guide a few days after...
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David Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Congressman Bill Young of Florida (left), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, and Congressman David R. Obey of Wisconsin, the ranking committee De...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Florida Congressman Bill Young (left) and Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey, respectively the Republican chair and the ranking Democrat of the House Appr...

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