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Horse-Drawn Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women, horse-drawn mowers and buggies in a field. A horse-powered hay stacker is in the background with two men on a large haystack.
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Mule Drawn Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Corn binder hitched to two mules in field in Algeria. In the distance are low hills. One bearded man, wearing what appears to be a full-length hooded jella...
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Springfield Works

Date: 1935
Description: Factory workers at International Harvester's Springfield Works.
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Factory Workers Pushing a Cart

Date: 01 19 1916
Description: Two men demonstrate the "old way" of hauling using a push cart loaded with 2,200 pounds. The men are likely factory workers at Osborne Works (also known as...
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Factory Worker Hauling Carts of Parts

Date: 01 13 1916
Description: Factory working demonstrating the "new way" of hauling by pulling carts loaded with 16,000 pounds of parts using a shop mule. The man is most likely a work...
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Horse-Powered Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men in a field use a horse-powered hay press. Two carriages are on the the left.
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Boston Store

Date: 05 11 1914
Description: Elevated view of the Boston Store department building at W. Wisconsin Avenue and N. 4th Street.
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Iron Mine

Date: 08 1880
Description: Men working in an iron mine.
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Out-Freight House No. 7

Date: 1915
Description: Horse-drawn and motor freight vehicles at the Out-Freight House No. 7 of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway.
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Earth Day Banner Over Street

Date: 04 1973
Description: The city of Burlington is visited by Gaylord Nelson during an Earth Week celebration. The photograph shows a horse-drawn carriage riding down main street, ...
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Horse-Drawn Binder and Buggy in Field

Date: 1899
Description: A farmer operates a horse-drawn grain binder in a field while another man in work clothes looks on. Two men in dress clothes sit in a buggy in the same fie...
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T.G. Mandt Carriage Factory

Date: 1880
Description: Slightly elevated exterior view of T.G. Mandt Wagons & Carriages. Several of the men are standing near or leaning on one of the many carriages displayed ar...
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Workers and Foremen (?) Posing in Field with McCormick Grain Binder

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men in suits, presumably foremen or supervisors, and several men in work clothes, are in a grain field. Most of the men in suits are either sitt...
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Family in Farmyard

Date: 1900
Description: Three young children are posing around a baby in a buggy in a farmyard. Large stacks of hay are in the background. Behind the children on the right a man i...
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McCormick Grain Binder in Field near Church

Date: 1900
Description: Field of grain and a McCormick horse-drawn binder in a field near a church. There are no horses attached to the binder. A person on a horse-drawn buggy is ...
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Loading Bales at Twine Mill

Date: 1948
Description: A factory worker loads bales of twine onto a platform, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill. Original caption reads: "The workman is shown here placing ba...
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Loading Delivery Trucks

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Men loading delivery trucks used by Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Company.
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Emery Bird Thayer Shipping Department

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Men loading small packages into rolling carts in the shipping department of Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Co.
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Loading Area of Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Company

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Slightly elevated view of men sorting packages in the shipping department of Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Company.
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Cars of Bagasse at Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: Several cars of bagasse outside a processing factory at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photograph reads: "Cars of bagasse ...

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