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| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man sporting a beard and wide-brimmed straw (?) hat is operating a mower pulled by two horses in a field. The field is on hilly terrain. A dirt road and ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a farmer operating a horse-drawn mower in a field. The words "E Rees Howard Farm. Newton Square Phila." have been etched into the emulsion of ... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | A man in work clothes is operating a horse-drawn mower in a patch of grass along a waterfront, while another man wearing a hat and tie is looking on. Ships... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Men using an Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader to work on an urban street. The grader was owned by the State Paving and Construction Co. Original caption states: "G... |
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| Description: | Double extension gantry crane with a grab-bucket at the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. The crane is stamped with the text "Pawling & Harnischfeger Builders, Mil... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 2-ton monorail hoist in the William Wharton Jr. & Co. rail storage house. There's a man in the cab and the text on the cab reads "P... |
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| Description: | A view of the Coining Room, with men and women working at various machines. Large pallets of boxes, on wheels, sit in the central aisle, on the left. Capti... |
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| Description: | A view of the Coining Room, where women sit at long tables, weighing out metal. Each woman has a balance and other tools at her station. A male supervisor ... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Two men use a slide to load boxes from the loading dock on the second floor of the Welsbach Street Lighting Company onto the bed of one of the company's Mo... |
| Date: | 03 30 1925 |
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| Description: | Men loading bushels of fruit and vegetables onto the back of a Model 63 International truck owned by the McCray & Hunter company. A loading dock of a brick... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | An African-American man is working on a truck engine. He is wearing a hat and overalls, and is using what appears to be a ratchet and extension. The truck ... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A garbage truck is backed up and emptying refuse into what is likely an incinerator. A man is standing at the open driver's door, and another man is sittin... |
| Date: | 07 15 1961 |
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| Description: | Menu from Bookbinders Sea Food House. The cover features an illustration of a fisherman holding a net with a boat in the background, framed by a border of ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Left side view of a man using a horse-drawn mower on a lawn. The horse is wearing a fly-net. There are buildings, and what may be the capitol of Philadelph... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from rear of a man using a horse-drawn mower on League Island, with Philadelphia in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View from rear of a man using a horse-drawn mower along a shoreline at League Island. A man is standing near him on the right. In the background on the lef... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two grounds keepers mowing lawn in Fairmount Park. |
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