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Description: | Train pulling a long load of logs through the woods. Horses replaced oxen teams and are used along with wood burning trains to haul logs. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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Description: | Edward P. Allis Reliance Works under the protection of the Wisconsin State Militia during the first general labor strike. The strike is also known as the ... |
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Description: | Elevated view of York Iron works. Large group of men posing in yard. The boardinghouse is on a hill in the far background. Early iron was mined at Mayville... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
Date: | 1894 |
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Description: | Men loading rock from Saddle Mound quarry onto a St. Paul Railroad flat car. |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Visitors, dressed in their Sunday best, contrast with the rough garb of the miners. Left to right, miners were: Charles Kanass, Robert "Beaver" Smith (hold... |
Date: | 1875 |
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Description: | Locomotive No. 75. Class H. Built 1850 by Schnectady Locomotive Works. Men are posed on and around the locomotive. |
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Description: | The screw tug, "Boscobel" built in 1881, is at a wooden dock with cordwood stacked on deck inside her forward gangway, perhaps indicating that she burned w... |
Date: | 07 13 1905 |
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Description: | International Harvester's Deering Works as seen from railroad tracks near the waterfront. The factory was located at Fullerton and Clybourn Avenues, across... |
Date: | 07 13 1905 |
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Description: | Workers milling around the factory gates at the Fullerton Avenue side of International Harvester's Deering Works. The factory was originally built by Willi... |
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Description: | Exterior of the Bay View Rolling Mill, Puddling Department, with workers posing outside the building. The men are standing near railroad tracks, and a few ... |
Date: | 08 29 1907 |
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Description: | Elevated view of workers with a rail cart full of stock lumber in the lumberyard at International Harvester's Weber Works in Auburn Park. The factory was o... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | Housing for employees of logging and lumber operations associated with International Harvester. The housing consists of small one-room shacks in a wooded a... |
Date: | 1945 |
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Description: | Steam locomotive moving an overhead crane used to lay rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. One man is standing on the right, and another man i... |
Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,... |
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Description: | Construction equipment for Kilbourn dam loaded on trains. |
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Description: | International Harvester's Deering Twine Mill. The twine mill was part of the Deering Works. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company until 19... |
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Description: | Women sitting and standing at leisure outside International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company un... |
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Description: | Illustration of the McCormick Reaper and Mower Works of 1847. The factory was located on the north bank of the Chicago River, east of the Michigan Avenue B... |
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