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Tall-tale Postcard: Background with Men on Ramp

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic mock-up for an Alfred Stanley Johnson photomontage postcard. Two men walk up a ramp leading into a railroad car. Both men are pushing large i...
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Erecting Pile Driver for Railroad Extension to Dam Site

Date: 1911
Description: Workers erecting a steam driven pile driver while others survey for the railroad extension from the village of Prairie du Sac to the dam site on the Wiscon...
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P&H Semi-Gantry Crane with Magnetic Hoist

Date: 1911
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger semi-gantry crane with a magnetic hoist unit in a foundry yard. The crane is stamped with the text "Pawling & Harnischfeger Builder...
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Train Emerging from Tunnel

Date: 1911
Description: Front view of train emerging from a tunnel. A hand-drawn border features two male figures running away from the train and reads, "The monster pursues."
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Milwaukee Works Machine Shop

Date: 1911
Description: Construction crews erecting a six-story machine shop at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Men are working on the ground and on an exposed ...
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Ground Clearing at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view of a cleared section of land for a six-story machine shop at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Other industrial buildings an...
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Tractor Shipment on Train

Date: 1911
Description: International Harvester 10-20 tractors loaded onto rail cars for shipment from the company's Milwaukee Works factory to various sales branches.
Postcard

Kissel Motor Car Company

Date: 1911
Description: Photographic postcard view of the Kissel Motor Car Company. The elevated view shows the factory buildings, water towers, railroad cars and track. A dirigib...
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South Wayne Depot

Date: 1911
Description: View down railroad tracks towards the South Wayne depot, with an oncoming train in the distance. Railroad cars are parked on tracks behind the depot. On th...
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Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with a railway track with a train and other machinery. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek a...
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Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with men working near a railway track with sand haulers. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek...
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Steam Shovel Cutting German Hill

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a steam shovel working on a hill by a railway and water tank. Location identified as the cutting down of German Hill for fill to reconstruct t...
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Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View down wall towards a construction site. On the right arec men by a railway track with sand haulers, and a brick viaduct. Location identified as the f...
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Reconstruction of Town Creek

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with men working by a railway track with sand haulers, and a brick viaduct. Location identified as the fill and reconstru...
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Sand Hauler Wreckage

Date: 1911
Description: View towards a construction site, with wreckage, and men working on the wreckage. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after th...
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Wreck of the Sand Hauler

Date: 1911
Description: View of a construction site with wreckage in a ditch. Location identified as the fill and reconstruction of Town Creek after the 1911 flood in Black River ...
Postcard

Diefenthaler & Co. General Store

Date: 1911
Description: View of A. Diefenthaler's General Store and the building next to it. A man is standing near a horse and buggy parked in the street. Freight cars are behind...
Postcard

Kissel Motor Car Co.

Date: 1911
Description: Elevated view of the Kissel auto plant in between the railroad and the river. A dirigible and bi-plane have been cut and pasted onto the image. Caption rea...
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Plants and Operations at McCormick Works

Date: 1911
Description: View across railroad tracks towards a factory building. A railroad car is on the left.
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Aerial View of McCormick Works

Date: 1911
Description: Aerial view across river towards McCormick Works, including factory buildings, smokestacks and a railroad yard. A ship named Imperial is along the d...

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