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Excavation for New York City Subway

Date: 1925
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...
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Farmer on McCormick-Deering Farmall H Tractor with Plow

Date: 1941
Description: Wayne Pattison working the fields of his two-hundred and eighty acre farm with a Farmall H tractor and a McCormick-Deering No. 7 disc plow. In the backgrou...
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Chapelle and FLN Rebels

Date: 1957
Description: Dickey Chapelle sits and drinks coffee with the FLN Scorpion Battalion Rebels in the Atlas Mountains in Algeria.
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Indian Petroglyphs

Date: 1960
Description: Norb Bybee shoots a self-portrait with his camera of petroglyphs that are carved in the face of a rock shelter near Gullikson's Glen.
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Men Laying Rails at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face.
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Three Men in Clearing

Date: 09 1910
Description: Three man stand in a small clearing on a steep rocky hill amid fallen trees. The small waterfall behind the men was the water power for the Leighton-Wyomin...
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Men with McCormick Mower

Date: 1900
Description: Men are sitting and standing around a McCormick mower, while a man wearing a suit and hat is standing to the left writing on a slip of paper, possibly a re...
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CCC Workers at Devil's Lake Rock Formation

Date: 1935
Description: Devil's Lake State Park Civilian Conservation Corps workers posed at rock formation, possibly Devil's Doorway.
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Hotz Family

Date: 1915
Description: Ferdinand Hotz poses with his wife Clothilde (with glasses), son Ferdinand Leonard (Fedy) and one of his daughters on Champagne Rock on Cottage Row.
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Stone Quarry

Date: 1905
Description: Stone quarry, with men working near a wagon, and at the base of the hill. In the background is a steep hill with trees.
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Railroad Employees Posed on Donkeys

Date: 1906
Description: Employees of the Milwaukee Road at Happy Hollow. Left to right: engineers Fred Brown, John J. Rigney, William Wall, William H. Fetherston, and conductors J...
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Lumbermen Descending Rapids

Date: 1900
Description: Lumbermen in a bateau descending rapids in an unidentified northern or north-central Wisconsin river.
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Man Driving Farmall H Tractor

Date: 1935
Description: Left side view of Wayne Pattison driving a Farmall H tractor pulling a McCormick-Deering disc 7 in a field.
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Western Train

Date: 1903
Description: Switchman standing at the switch next to railroad tracks cut through a rock formation. Another man is standing on top of the rock formation on the left. In...
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Construction Site in City

Date: 08 18 1925
Description: View looking down at a man driving a dump truck filled with large boulders through a construction site with puddles of water.
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Construction Site in City

Date: 08 19 1925
Description: View looking down towards a man driving a dump truck through puddles of water at a construction site. In the background men are working among rocks and roc...
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Construction Site

Date: 08 19 1925
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...
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Delivery Truck

Date: 07 20 1928
Description: View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "McCormick-Deering" and "Power Farm E...
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Norris Dam

Date: 1934
Description: Elevated, panoramic view of the Norris Dam.
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International Payhauler Loaded by Crane at Glen Canyon Dam Site

Date: 1957
Description: Elevated view of a crane loading an International Payhauler for earth removal. One man is standing near the crane on the left, and another man is standing ...

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