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Freight Elevator

Date: 03 1907
Description: Freight elevator at McCormick Works.
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Boathouse with Elevator and Flying an American Flag

Date: 10 1960
Description: A two-story, vertical log boathouse on Lake Namakagon. The second floor has a wrap-around deck, and both floors have windows with green striped awnings. A ...
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Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1957
Description: Large two-story vertical log boathouse with an elevator shaft, located on Lake Namakagon. A small sailboat is tied to the boathouse dock.
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Boathouse with Three Canoes

Date: 1978
Description: Two-story vertical log boathouse on Lake Namakagan. Two canoes are on the boathouse deck and a red canoe is in the lake tied to the deck. Both floors of th...
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Boathouse Elevator at Forest Lodge

Date: 1997
Description: A vertical-log elevator shaft at one end of a vertical-log two-story boathouse; there is a door at the base of the elevator. Wood steps with a pipe railing...
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Forest Lodge Boathouse

Date: 1997
Description: View of a two-story vertical-log structure surrounded by a lower deck and an upper deck with a pipe railing. There are ten double-hung windows, two wood do...
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Man Driving Industrial Tractor

Date: 09 13 1927
Description: View towards man sitting behind the driver's wheel of a McCormick-Deering tractor in what may be an elevator. Behind the tractor is a cart filled with bale...
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Two Men Standing in Freight Elevator

Date: 03 20 1913
Description: Two men are standing and facing each other at the back of a freight elevator. On the left side of the elevator are tools hanging from nails, and postcards ...
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Wisco Hardware Company

Date: 01 11 1932
Description: Wisco Hardware Company, 1435 E Washington Avenue, showing the stockroom and elevator.
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Freight Elevator

Date: 03 1907
Description: Freight elevator at McCormick Works.
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Men in a Freight Elevator

Date: 03 20 1914
Description: One man wearing a jacket and hat is standing in a freight elevator with a partially open door, while a second man is pushing a cart of parts toward the el...
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Freight Elevator

Date: 1905
Description: View of front of a freight elevator, with signs that read: "Danger Keep Hands Off," and "Ring Bell 4 Times."
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Oscar Mayer Ice Cooler Room

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Description: Four men are in a large room with a high ceiling. Three of the man are on the floor working to move ice bricks towards the stack of ice in the background. ...
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Otis Elevator

Date: 1954
Description: Elevated view from stairway of the ornate Otis elevator in the Wisconsin Historical Society building. This elevator was installed as original equipment in ...
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Elevator "A"

Date: 1980
Description: Stereograph; elevated view of what was supposedly the largest elevator in the world at the time. Though there is a Peirce & Whaling Company imprint over t...
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Wisconsin State Capitol Elevators

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Description: Second and third floor elevators in the Wisconsin State Capitol.
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Parts Department at Manhattan Branch

Date: 05 24 1937
Description: Repairs helper Thomas K. Chalmers handles a truck grille in a dumb waiter or service elevator in the parts department on the first floor of International H...
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IH Columbia Branch House

Date: 1925
Description: A is man looking out the window of the second story of the International Harvester Company's Columbia branch building. A sign is hanging above the main ent...
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Factory Workers on Elevator at McCormick Works

Date: 1910
Description: Two factory workers standing on a freight elevator, silhouetted by light from an open window behind them. The men probably worked at International Harveste...
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Worker at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Worker in an elevator at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine near Hibbing, Minnesota.

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