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| Date: | 03 02 1956 |
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| Description: | A seamless pipe fitting sits atop a railroad car, ready to be shipped. Later purchased and used by Elmes & Kings. Original Falk caption reads: "14' high-78... |
| Date: | 10 28 1966 |
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| Description: | Mill drive that was later purchased by Traylor Engineering and used by Hudson Cement. Original Falk caption reads, "See engineering files for exact descrip... |
| Date: | 10 29 1968 |
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| Description: | Mill drive purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by Duval. Original Falk caption reads, "260 inch x 34 inch single helical split ring gear... part of a phot... |
| Date: | 07 24 1971 |
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| Description: | Slewing drive that was purchased by the Dravo Corporation. Original Falk caption reads, "Slewing Drive-2 parts-(1) 19 feet 5 inches O.D. x 6 1/2 inch wide ... |
| Date: | 09 08 1971 |
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| Description: | This 2 pinion gear was purchased by the Fairbanks Morse Division of the Colt Industry and used by United States Steel. Falk caption reads, "Main propulsion... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A large pile of scrap metal near a railroad track. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men watch as workers cut down scrap iron and load it on a railroad car as part of a wartime scrap drive. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A group looks on as a man uses a cutting torch to reduce scrap iron into readily marketable pieces in the farm scrap collection drive in Barton County. Acc... |
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