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| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | The factory and yard at the Nevada Brick and Tile Works. Caption reads: "Nevada Brick and Tile Works, Nevada, Iowa." |
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| Description: | Sewer pipes are stacked in front of the Southern Sewer Pipe Works factory. Caption reads: "Southern Sewer Pipe Works, North Birmingham, ALA." |
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| Description: | On the right, the farmer in his sheepskin coat drives a horse-drawn sled loaded with milk cans to the cheese factory. A blanket is covering the cans to pre... |
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| Description: | Two men work at running sap from maple trees. Buckets are hanging beneath the sap spouts or "spiles" inserted into holes drilled in the trees. A team of ho... |
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| Description: | View from shoreline toward the Grand Rapids lumber mill with a smokestack on the opposite shoreline. |
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| Description: | View across water covered with logs toward the mill. Smoke and steam is coming from a smokestack and chimneys. The mill building has smaller outbuildings c... |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill toward a lumberyard, with small workers' homes on the left. A dirt path and wooden fence surround the lumberyard, which is filled w... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the railroad tracks, lumberyard, and mill of Northern Lumber Mill. In the foreground is a long line of railroad cars sitting on the tracks... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the mill, dam, and railroad tracks, and forests surrounding the area. The lumber mill itself, with main building complex and smokestack is... |
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| Description: | Lukens Steel Company was founded in 1810, and was the largest employer in Chester County in the 1960s, with over 10,000 workers. |
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| Description: | The first rails of puddled iron were rolled on Bethlehem Steel Company's rolling mill September 26th, 1863. |
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| Description: | Robert and George Dawson Coleman built the North Lebanon Furnaces in 1847 and 1848 on the southern slopes of what is now Coleman’s Park. Caption reads: "No... |
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| Description: | Reconstruction of the Aptucxet Trading Post, the Plymouth colony's first trading post. The replica was erected on the original foundation which was archaeo... |
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| Description: | A front view of a house with a swastika, flag, and symbol of the Nazis of Germany at Camp Sigfried. In front of the house, a flag waves on a pole and a sig... |
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| Description: | Front view of the exterior of the Elks Home. Flags adorn the home and lawn. |
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| Description: | The first building built for the Hillside Home School, 4 Miles from Spring Green. Exterior view of the Hillside Home Building, a Shingle Style building, de... |
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| Description: | A view of children, adults, and a tree on the lawn in front of the Home for Crippled Children. |
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| Description: | A view from across the dirt path of Louisiana Baptist Orphanage, constructed in 1903. A fence surrounds the building which has tall windows. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Male Almshouse, a home for the aged and ill. The brick structure is lined with windows, and two adults walk past to the left of the h... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Female Almshouse, a home for the aged and ill. A woman stands outside the door, and a telephone pole stands to the right of the buildi... |
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