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| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three uniformed soldiers in the process of constructing Blockhouse No. 8 with logs and earth. The area appears to overlook a ravine. |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | An indigenous youth weaves roofing for military buildings on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Three men posing on top of a timber bridge under construction. The bridge crosses a river in a forested area. Posing on top of the bridge are two soldiers,... |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Two soldiers from the 14th Infantry working among lumber in Panama. One man iswearing a hat and squatting on top of a pile of lumber while holding a hammer... |
| Date: | 08 16 1943 |
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| Description: | Five indigenous workers balance on timbers while building the framing for a roof on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New G... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View looking down log bridge which is in the process of being built by a group of soldiers. The bridge crosses over a gully. In the distance is a horse-dra... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Governor Lucius Fairchild of Wisconsin and an unidentified group visiting the still uncompleted national monument at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 1869. Fair... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | An International K-8 truck and a Byers crane are used to lift a piece of wood in the construction of a U.S. Army building. The original caption reads: "Nat... |
| Date: | 08 12 1943 |
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| Description: | Three indigenous boys building a roof out of what appears to be palm fronds at Combat Team Headquarters on Kiriwina Island, in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Men work on what appears to be International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View across snow and barbed wire fence of a group of soldiers constructing a log blockhouse. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Construction site, probably at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). A large hole is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Construction site showing an additional to an International Harvester factory, probably the company's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. |
| Date: | 11 10 1942 |
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| Description: | Without nails, wire or rope, indigenous men build a large structure for an American hospital unit headed by Major Stanley Hollenbeck of Milwaukee, Wisconsi... |
| Date: | 09 18 1952 |
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| Description: | Parade of Homes displays tent featuring Findorff Lumber & Supply Company, First National modernization financing, Edward Hines Lumber Co. and a civil defen... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an M-139 truck transporting members of a bridge-building unit and construction materials to the bank of a river in a wooded area. The s... |
| Date: | 11 17 1948 |
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| Description: | Construction scene of the new Naval Armory in the 1000 block of East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | A dugout under construction, showing the timber frame and planks of wood over the top. On the left of the dugout is a large pile of timbers covered with sn... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men talking on a construction site, probably at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal (factory). A pile of bricks is in the foreground alon... |
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