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Poster

Deering Farm Machinery Calendar

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering tractors and farm implements featuring an oval color illustration of a European farmhouse with thatched roof, farm laborer...
Postcard

Van Camp Packing Co.

Date: 1912
Description: View of the Van Camp Packing Company. People, including a horse-drawn vehicle are on a driveway on a hill near the side of the factory. Caption reads: "Van...
Photograph

Railroad Shops Under Construction

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Description: Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground...
Photograph

Milwaukee Harvester Works

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of the Milwaukee Harvester Works. View from hill towards a large crowd of workers, mainly men and boys, posing in front of the factory in an ...
Photograph

Factory and Landscape

Date: 1920
Description: View across road toward a bridge and a factory. There are several boys standing on the bridge.
Photograph

Cheese Factory

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Description: View across road of a cheese factory on the side of a hill. Several people are walking down the driveway, and a car is parked nearby.
Photograph

Cheese Factory

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Description: A man poses outdoors in front of a cheese factory. Behind him next to the building is a large wooden tub on stilts, perhaps for holding water.
Photograph

Electric Light Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior of the Eastman power plant. Two children pose on a metal cylinder outside the plant. The text on the photograph reads, "The Best electric light pl...
Photograph

Man in Boat by York Iron Works

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Description: View down hill of man posed sitting in a boat near the bank of a river taken from an iron mound of the York Iron Works. There is a view of the blast furnac...
Photograph

York Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace.
Photograph

York Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace.
Photograph

Cheese Factory

Date: 1932
Description: View up road towards two men posing near the front of a cheese factory on a small hill; on the right a woman and two girls stand near a side door. Typical ...
Photograph

Hillsboro Canning Plant

Date: 1959
Description: An official and workmen at Hillsboro Canning Plant examining a a large truckload of corn as it's dumped into a huge unloading platform. The individuals pic...
Photograph

Plant Under Construction

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Description: View looking down at men working on new construction. Houses are on a hill in the distance.
Photograph

Plant Under Construction

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Description: View from platform looking down towards men working on buildings under construction. Houses are on a hill in the distance.
Photograph

Men Working on Side of Hill

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Description: View along side of a hill that is being worked into levels, with snow on the ground. Men, some holding shovels, are standing near the base of a temporary v...
Photograph

Construction Site

Date: 08 28 1914
Description: View looking uphill towards a factory building under construction. A brick chimney is near a tall metal tower on the left side of an open steel or iron str...
Photograph

Men at Construction Site

Date: 05 15 1914
Description: Slightly elevated view of men in and around a trench at a construction site. There is a retaining wall above the trench on the hill on the right. Another f...

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