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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from south side of the Chippewa River, with a bridge crossing it and buildings on both sides of the river. A bluff rises on the far side of t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers loading bundles of sisal leaves onto a tram car on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The sisal or hennequen was used by the McCormick Company and... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr... |
| Date: | 04 04 1924 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of an experimental McCormick-Deering 15-30 tractor taken in a factory rail yard. A man in a suit and hat is sitting at the wheel of ... |
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| Description: | Side view of a locomotive from the Wisconsin and Michigan Railway sitting on the railroad tracks. |
| Date: | 04 01 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing against a wall, behind the Fauerbach Brewing Co. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and Lake Monona is in the background. |
| Date: | 11 12 1936 |
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| Description: | Chicago & Northwestern Railroad tracks, looking west at the crossing of S. Blair Street, King Street, E. Wilson Street, and Williamson Street. Shows Chicag... |
| Date: | 08 12 1931 |
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| Description: | View towards the back side of the Fauerbach Brewery Building, 651-653 Williamson Street. Railroad tracks are in the foreground. |
| Date: | 06 17 1930 |
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| Description: | New Texaco Service Station at 2846 Atwood Avenue, owner Joseph M. Setzer. Railroad tracks are running down the center of the street. |
| Date: | 09 25 1929 |
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| Description: | Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, looking towards a chain link fence and gate surrounding the plant. R... |
| Date: | 10 09 1929 |
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| Description: | A Chicago & North Western Railroad Bucyrus crane installing a large tank at a Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Company Pyrofax plant, at 130 Fair Oaks Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 03 1929 |
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| Description: | A railroad tanker car is sitting on tracks next to fuel storage tanks at the Capitol Oil Company, 919 East Main Street. |
| Date: | 11 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Menomonee Valley railroad yard looking northeast to 6th Street viaduct. The George Schulz box factory was on N. 5th Street and W. Clyb... |
| Date: | 09 01 1910 |
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| Description: | 27th Street viaduct looking north, Menomonee Valley area, with gas holders of the Milwaukee Gas Light Co. in the background. Pedestrians and wagons are cro... |
| Date: | 08 09 1929 |
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| Description: | Two men are filingl oil cans from the back of an International truck operated by Mobiloil. Text on the side of the truck reads: "The World's Quality Oil" a... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Aerial view looking north from the foot of Milwaukee's main thoroughfare, Wisconsin Avenue. Lincoln Memorial Drive winds its way along the lagoon in Juneau... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Worker loads sisal leaves onto a small train car at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Loading leaves on the train car... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker loads bundled leaves on to a rail or tram car in the middle of a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photogra... |
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