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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Central locomotive No #50 and pile driver No #2 working near Owen. Men stand on and around the tracks. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, built in the 1840s, on Shake Rag Street undergoing restoration. The house was temporarily covered with s... |
| Date: | 08 24 1956 |
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| Description: | Purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by the Marquette Cement Company, original Falk caption reads:"M.O. NO. 5541-0574 & 5520-7424. Type of Unit, 12 1/2 GDA... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An early Pawling and Harnischfeger cab-operated crane with dial operated controllers and a 5-ton type "O" bridge with a type "A" trolley. The operator is i... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Rear view of two Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoists with lumber handling units laden with lumber and men in the cabs. Both hoists are stamped w... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist in a lumber mill with a man in the cab. Text stamped on cab reads "Capacity 6,000 Lbs., No. 2573." In the lowe... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist with lumber handling unit in the Pacific Lumber Co. lumberyard. There's a man in the cab and the text stamped ... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | A Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist in lumber storage racks. There's a man in the cab, and another man standing at the bottom of one of the stac... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist crane with lumber unit lowering its load at American Lumberman. There is an operator in the cab, and men on th... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Six Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoists at a lumber mill (probably Pacific Lumber Co.). There are men on the ground as well as operating the cran... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit preparing to load lumber onto a boat in what is possibly Pensacola, Florida. Two m... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Group of Civilian Conservation Corps workers standing at a table saw. One man, probably a supervisor, wears a hat and tie. |
| Date: | 1995 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd of people wearing hard hats gathered on the National Mall. They are building a huge model of the planet Earth for the 25th A... |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | During a tour of his district Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey visited various sites where energy-saving projects were underway. Here a workman on a lad... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow of a group of men working to construct a wooden bridge that crosses a ravine. Another group of both men and women standing on a road look ... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Portrait of of a Russian woman wearing heavy furs. She is standing near the construction of a wooden bridge. In the background are men standing near and on... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Portrait of (left to right): Lieutenant Colonel R.G.S. Stokes, Corps of Royal Engineers; and Lieutenant Colonel P.S. Morris, Commanding Officer, U.S. Army ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view of front and side of the almost-completed Winnebago School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy. Construction workers are on the building... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking southeast at a cut face of the granite quarry. A worker stands on a ledge on the right. There are ropes and ladders in the quarry. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard view of workers picking cherries, some of them standing on ladders. |
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