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| Date: | 07 1959 |
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| Description: | Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ... |
| Date: | 09 16 1935 |
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| Description: | Dock worker hauling two small trailers of cargo with a McCormick-Deering I-12 industrial tractor next to a docked ship. The tractor was owned and operated ... |
| Date: | 03 25 1936 |
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| Description: | Dock worker using an International Model 20 tractor equipped with a Lidgerwood crane to load cargo onto a ship. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a boat called "The Imperial" moored along the dock at the McCormick Reaper Works. The boat is loaded with freight. In the backgro... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | International Harvester's McCormick Works on the river with railroad tracks and a cargo dock. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Com... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of ships sailing up the Fox River alongside the coal yards located in Green Bay. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Chimney and water towers at Northern Paper Mills, also a cargo ship called the Yorkton, which carries lumber to the paper mill. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | View from Fox River of chimneys, buildings, and boat. Caption reads: "River Front, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of cargo ship passing under the Walnut Street Bridge on the Fox River. |
| Date: | 04 17 1921 |
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| Description: | Workers shoveling grain, possibly corn, onto a lake vessel. Probably on the lower Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste... |
| Date: | 07 25 1914 |
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| Description: | The Gilchrist Transportation Company cargo ship "Tyrone" transports coal on the Menominee River. |
| Date: | 08 09 1914 |
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| Description: | Erie Railroad Lake Line cargo ships transport coal on the Menominee River, west of the Water Street Bridge. |
| Date: | 09 10 1903 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking north on the Milwaukee River from the Holton Street viaduct towards the Milwaukee lumberyards. |
| Date: | 07 17 1914 |
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| Description: | Menominee River coal yards, west from the 16th Street viaduct. There is a cargo ship called the "John B. Cowle" in the harbor between two coal yards. Worke... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a tugboat pulling a lake steamer on the Milwaukee River under an open drawbridge near the Electric Company. |
| Date: | 05 17 1934 |
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| Description: | Men loading large "International Motor Truck" crates onto a ship with a crane. Men are working near the ship, and people are watching from the second-story... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends over the dock to permi... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View of ships moored in the harbor. Sign painted on the ship reads: "Brookline" and the barge next to the ship is loaded with railroad cars. "Atlantic Tran... |
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