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| Date: | 05 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers with hard hats at the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three construction workers, two in the hole, and one above, digging at the World Trade Center construction site. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Knives and shears in a display case behind a show window, which is reflecting buildings and clouds in the sky. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man plows snow with an International I-30(?) tractor on a New York City street. Men with shovels are standing on the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 10 1914 |
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| Description: | Buffalo Street construction showing cuts in the pavement and the inconvenience for traffic. Standing between the excavated holes and piles of dirt is a hor... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A man is standing at the back of an International truck holding a small chest or case. Behind him a group of construction workers are working near the scaf... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A man standing near the bed of an International Model M truck at a construction site. Behind him a group of construction workers are working near scaffoldi... |
| Date: | 12 1937 |
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| Description: | In the market at Misurata, Libya, a desert Bedouin washing clothes. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Boys and girls working to plant and tend to a garden surrounded by buildings and fences in what appears to be an urban area. The location is likely a schoo... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Children and two women, possibly a school group, work with hand tools in an urban garden. An elevated railroad is in the background, along with the Acme St... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of children and women standing in what is probably a "war garden" in an urban area. Several commercial buildings are in the background, one painted... |
| Date: | 12 18 1922 |
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| Description: | A man is using a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to assist in clearing land in a residential area. Several other men are standing in the background hold... |
| 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. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Parker Pen Company, with a three-quarter view of the company building, with people walking on the sidewalk, and a streetcar, automobiles,... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Traffic to the J. Ohlenforst Bakery at 529 S. Sixth Street, in the Walker's Point neighborhood, is impeded by street construction. There are piles of grave... |
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