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| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A woman and her dog meet the mail carrier in his delivery boat at the end of a pier on the west shore of Fox Lake. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | An unsuccessful test of Glenn Curtiss' hydroplane in San Diego Bay. The pilot about to be rescued is thought to be Milwaukee's John Kaminski. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Calbraith Perry Rodgers, with a cigar characteristically clenched in his jaw, was the first man to fly across the United States. He undertook this flight 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the T.P. Leathers Steamer at dock. Men can be seen loading cargo onto the ship. Caption reads: "A Mississippi Steamer." |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Lifeguard Tom Langlois in a rowboat is issuing a warning to James Bergman who is swimming outside the ropes that delineate the safe swimming area. |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Frank Hurn, driver for Davidson Transfer & Storage Company, wiping the windshield of an International D-40 truck. The truck appears to be parked near a har... |
| Date: | 05 12 1939 |
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| Description: | View of the dock area used by Mirabella Ice Company's wholesale and retail fish store. Men are standing and sitting near the receiving area, and boats are ... |
| Date: | 08 10 1973 |
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| Description: | View across water of early construction of the bridge over Little Lake Buttes des Morts. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men carry fiber on their shoulders onto a wooden wharf. The fiber, probably from manila plants, is also piled near a building in the background. |
| Date: | 01 22 1910 |
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| Description: | Men use donkeys to pull carts loaded with sisal fiber along railroad tracks on a wharf at Progreso, Yucatan. The fiber is being loaded onto or off of steam... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three men in an orchard mixing up chemicals to spray the trees. One of the men is on the back of a horse-drawn wagon with a barrel. The other two men are s... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Group of men on a life saving crew launching a rowboat into Lake Michigan. A long pier with a lighthouse at the end bisects the horizon. Caption reads: "Li... |
| Date: | 09 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a man sitting in the driver's seat of a dump truck backed up to the end of a wharf. The sign on the driver's side doo... |
| Date: | 09 06 1927 |
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| Description: | View down wharf towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a dump truck. Another man is standing at the back corner of the raised bed of the truck, whic... |
| Date: | 04 27 1929 |
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| Description: | View of a man sitting in the driver's seat of a Greenwich Transportation Inc. truck parked on a pier. In the background is water and a city on the far shor... |
| Date: | 06 13 1954 |
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| Description: | Boat rescue crew member, James Crary, is dashing down the pier from the U.W. Lifesaving Services facility to board the rescue boat," Isabel III," to help a... |
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