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| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Men in bateaux for the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Company's log drive on the Chippewa River at Jim Falls. |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the rising waters of the Wisconsin River at the construction site. This view shows the coffer dam, pile drivers, and narrow gauge railroad... |
| Date: | 10 07 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men in a boat approaching a wooden gravel bin at the construction site. Other men are watching from atop the structure and from the shore. |
| Date: | 05 03 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen on a barge using a pulley to raise sheet steel pilings which were damaged by high water in October, 1911. |
| Date: | 07 02 1917 |
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| Description: | ROTC engineers, probably at Fort Sheridan, learn bridge building during their training at Fort Leavenworth. |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Men of the 34th Construction Battalion of Seabees work around a boat dock using an International TD-9 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) at Halavo Seaplane Base... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six men on the shore of a river, with piles of clam shells inside loose wooden fences near a pile of firewood and an axe. The firewood may... |
| Date: | 09 1928 |
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| Description: | A clam fisher in a boat on the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien. Attached to the long rod are many small hooks similar to grappling hooks. As the bo... |
| Date: | 11 15 1938 |
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| Description: | Three men on a boat called Balbo owned by Felice Golino of St. John's Shrimp Company. The boat was powered by an International PD-40 power unit and ... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Boatman on a river in Kashmir. In the background are other boats along a tree-lined shore. |
| Date: | 03 17 1925 |
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| Description: | An International Model 43 truck owned by Whitmier & Ferris Company parked along the bank of a river where men are constructing the framework to a billboard... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Four men in a large row boat lifting fishing nets on Lake Superior near Cornucopia. |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Canal in a hamlet near Phat Diem, described by photographer David Schoenbrun as part of an extensive system of irrigation. On a path along the canal a man ... |
| 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: | 05 1909 |
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| Description: | A log driving crew at Eagle Rapids Dam on the Chippewa River. Bottom of print reads: "Eagle Rapids Jam. May, 18-09." |
| Date: | 08 1925 |
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| Description: | A photographer is crouching on a wooden pier behind a small camera on a tripod to film C.B. (Chandler Burnell) Chapman, a realtor and good friend of Stanle... |
| Date: | 11 29 1908 |
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| Description: | Men working on pulling the boat "Fish Hawk" out of the water. One man is kneeling in front of the boat and looking at the camera. A man in the background i... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | View across water of four men on the baggage raft traveling toward the Island from Apple Tree Landing. Two men, possibly lumberjacks, are rowing. The bagga... |
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