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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers among hundreds of hay rake wheels stacked on a shipping platform next to rail cars at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A work crew of the Upham Lumber and Manufacturing Company near Athens, Wisconsin. The men are riding on a flatbed car of the Abbottsford and Northeastern R... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | An early gasoline-powered handcar being used on the Minneapolis, St. Paul, & Sault Ste. Marie line for an inspection tour. The employees are (left to right... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Robert M. La Follette, Sr. with a group on his special campaign train. From left to right they are Alfred T. Rogers, La Follette's law partner; Mr. and Mrs... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Special train from Spooner, Wisconsin, to Union Meeting at St. Paul, Minnesota. Group portrait of men posing on and around the locomotive. A young girl is ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works factory, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. Men in the foreground are stacking piles of lumber. After 19... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men unload pieces of lumber from the opened boxcars of a train near the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men use teams of horses to excavate a lot to be used as the site for the future McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a railroad engine with passengers before it ascends Mount Washington Railroad's 'Jacob's Ladder,' built around 1868 with a grade of 37.41%. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad crew with the rock crusher. The train car is labeled '204430' and 'Burlington Route'. A steep hill rises behind... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Four men are transporting a cart of goods from a railroad car to a loading dock. The men are most likely employees of the International Harvester Osbourne ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | View down platform of train stopped at a loading dock at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). On the dock is a large stac... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Klindt-Geiger Canning Company. A group of male and female employees are posing outdoors on the loading dock along the railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A group of women and children and one man pose standing on the railroad tracks behind a saddle back train. On the low hill behind them is a log building, a... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Group of men loading a large pile of bananas onto a train in Costa Rica. Three men wearing suits and hats are sitting and standing on top of the railroad c... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad cars are on railroad tracks running along the buildings under construction. Men are wor... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad cars are on tracks in the foreground. A large smokestack is in the center. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a twine mill under construction. Railroad tracks are in the foreground below. A partially built smokestack is in the center. A number of c... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of plant yard. Stacks of wheels are in rows in the center of the yard on a wood platform, and along the brick wall of the factory building in... |
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