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| Date: | 08 03 1962 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Guard Lock on the Fox River Canal, looking east from the Highway 55 bridge. |
| Date: | 08 04 1962 |
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| Description: | A boat travels up the Fox River. In the background are a canal and locks and factory smokestacks. |
| Date: | 08 04 1962 |
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| Description: | A boat in the Fox River Canal, headed up river. This particular lock, the Ripide Croche Lock, is located just north of Wrightstown. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man with two mules on the left pulling a boat up the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. A large wooden building is on the right bank in the behi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Waterside view toward a couple canoeing by a boathouse and docks on the Ohio Canal, with a steel bridge in the left background. Smoke streams across the sk... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works factory, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. Men in the foreground are stacking piles of lumber. After 19... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Official opening of the sixty-six foot Peterboro hydraulic lift lock, built in 1904 on the Trent Canal. People gather in boats and along the shore to celeb... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Canal in a hamlet near Phat Diem, described by photographer David Schoenbrun as part of an extensive system of irrigation. On a path along the canal a man ... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Villagers near Phat Diem gathered to watch American Dorothy Schoenbrun sketching near an irrigation canal. Mrs. Schoenbrun was accompanying her husband, jo... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Person steering a sampan, loaded with what appears to be fiber, on an irrigation canal near the North Vietnamese city of Phat Diem. On the right is a group... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Canal in Binh Hung Vietnam with numerous small boats and a crowd of people walking alongside. In the background is a large cross and a number of large that... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of old U.S. Army model H-21 helicopter, assigned to help Vietnamese forces fight the Viet Cong in the mountain region of Vietnam. The patchwork... |
| Date: | 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Vietnamese Rangers escort a newly captured prisoner suspected of being Viet Cong down a gravel road in the vicinity of Bac Lien, Vietnam. The prisoner has ... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A woman carrying a child wrapped in a cloth crosses a log footbridge over a canal in the countryside in Vietnam. A boy is standing in the background and th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | McCormick Reaper Works, as seen from across the west fork of the south branch of the Chicago River. There are stacks of lumber in the foreground, and railr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of what appears to be the McCormick Reaper Works, with the west fork of the south branch of the Chicago River in the foreground. Smokestacks, railroad... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of factory buildings and smokestacks from across a river or industrial canal. The factory is probably the McCormick Reaper Works as seen from across t... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | NASA towboat, the "Clermont", pulling a liquid oxygen tank in the canal system of the Mississippi Test Support Department. Original caption reads (in part)... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View looking down towards shoreline of troops on board a paddle boat on a canal. The boat flies an American flag. Other people stand on the shoreline and o... |
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