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Unloading Sugar Cane

Date: 
Description: View of several men unloading a barge of sugar cane with a crane-like tool. A river and dock area are in the background. Caption reads: "Unloading Sugar Ca...
Photograph

Loading Sugar Cane

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Description: Several men loading sugar cane bales into train cars using a hoist. The text "USS Corp. 24" (partially obscured) is painted on one of the train cars.
Photograph

Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1915
Description: Men carrying cut sisal leaves to take to a decorticating mill (which removes the outer husk), loading them on a donkey, and tram car which is on rails.
Magazine or Periodical

Emigrant Landing in New York

Date: 1858
Description: Large group of people leaving a steam ship, some transporting large chests of their belongings.
Photograph

Lewis Arms at the Madison Airport

Date: 1960
Description: Lewis Arms poses in front of the Madison airport before flying to Fort Knox, Kentucky. He is wearing his army uniform.
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Powertrax Brochure

Date: 02 1936
Description: Cover of a International Harvester Powertrax brochure describing "Mobile and Stationary Industrial Power." Includes a photograph of a man hauling cargo wit...
Photograph

Ferry Boat

Date: 1921
Description: View from shoreline looking down at three men posing on a paddle steamer ferry boat carrying an automobile. The boat has the words "Cassville" and "Dewey" ...
Photograph

Sailors Moving Boxes of Human Blood

Date: 04 04 1945
Description: Two men working together to move a box marked "Human Blood" at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. They are aboard a tank landing ship pontoon float. One man is w...
Print

Pittsburg Landing, Battle of Shiloh

Date: 1887
Description: Engraving of Pittsburg Landing taken from a photograph a few days after the Battle of Shiloh (Tennessee), which occurred on April 6-7, 1862. The image sho...
Photograph

Freighting Goods

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Description: View of a group of men freighting goods by dogsled across ice from the S.S. Corwin offshore.
Photograph

Freighting Goods

Date: 06 03 1907
Description: View of a man freighting goods from the S.S. "Corwin" offshore by dog teams.
Photograph

Rapid Transit

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Description: View of oxen-drawn wagons along the Indian River.
Photograph

Men and Young Boys on the Open Road

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Description: View of two men and five young boys posed on the open road with an oxen-drawn wagon and water barrels. Published by Mercedes Drug Company.
Photograph

Mule Freight Team

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Description: View of a long mule freight team lined up in the street storefronts behind them. One stands at the front, and another stands on a wagon wheel in the back.
Photograph

International DS-30 Truck-Tractor with Semi-Trailer

Date: 1938
Description: Three-quarter view of an International DS-30 truck-tractor with semi-trailer owned by Columbia Terminals Company. The truck was operated by the Missouri Pa...
Photograph

Giraffe Transport

Date: 1938
Description: Men load a tall wooden crate transporting a giraffe onto the bed of an International D-40 truck. The animal was one of a pair being driven from New York to...
Photograph

Four Men Transport Cargo in a Cart

Date: 1907
Description: Four men are transporting a cart of goods from a railroad car to a loading dock. The men are most likely employees of the International Harvester Osbourne ...
Photograph

Unloading Coal #933

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Description: Stereograph of two workers placing barrels of coal onto wheelbarrows to unload off a ship. Text at right: "Milwaukee and Vicinity, Photographed by H.H. Ben...
Photograph

Truck with Cargomatic

Date: 1970
Description: Color photo of an International truck carrying prepacked airline food to Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 airplane. A man in the foreground gestures t...
Photograph

International Harvester Scout with Lift Platform

Date: 1970
Description: Color photo of an International Scout with a man in a lift platform raised up to the tail of a Pan American World Airways Boeing 747 parked at an airport.

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