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Photograph

Loading Docks

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Description: Elevated view of the industrial warehouse district. There are horse-drawn wagons lined up along loading docks, with men working in the area.
Print

Kimberly, Clark, & Company Paper Mills

Date: 1878
Description: Line drawing of the first paper mill in Neenah, Wisconsin, built in 1865-66 and called the Neenah Paper Mill; it was run by a stock company composed of Nat...
Print

Kimberly, Clark, & Company Paper Mills

Date: 1878
Description: Line drawing of first paper mill in Neenah, Wisconsin, built in 1865-66 and called the Neenah Paper Mill; it was run by a stock copany composed of Nathan C...
Print

Interior of Bonded Warehouse

Date: 1877
Description: Etching of interior of bonded warehouse with four men present, two conversing and two rolling barrels.
Photograph

Indiana Flooring Trucks

Date: 10 04 1926
Description: Three men sitting in the cabs of International trucks loaded with lumber. They are sitting in a row outside of what appears to be a warehouse of the Indian...
Drawing

Sheldon Office and Warehouse

Date: 1889
Description: Slightly elevated view of the S.L Sheldon Company Warehouse and Office. Outside of the building, there is a bustling street filled with pedestrians and hor...
Manuscript

John Pritzlaff Hardware Co.

Date: 02 22 1899
Description: The facade of the John Pritzlaff Hardware Co., on the back cover of the Old Settlers' Club Banquet Menu.
Photograph

MEC&MC Gantry Crane with Dual Hooks

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Description: A Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane with dual hooks, one standard, and the other a magnetic unit, used for unloading train cars...
Photograph

Ringling Hotel

Date: 1940
Description: View from across street of a shirtless young man standing beside an automobile in the shade of a lean-to attached to the old Ringling Hotel. Signs on the t...
Photograph

Couple on the Pier, East River

Date: 1968
Description: A fashionably dressed young couple stand in an embrace on a pier on the East River. The river and a waterfront warehouse are visible behind them.
Photograph

Stitzer Depot and Train

Date: 1921
Description: View down side of railroad tracks towards the depot, with a locomotive and passenger cars arriving. People are standing on the platform. In the background ...
Photograph

Tobacco Warehouse Which Pay Annually $12,000 for Labor

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Description: View across unpaved road of the front of a brick two-story tobacco warehouse. Three men are posed standing on the stoop in front of the door. A barefoot gi...
Photograph

Army Supply Depot

Date: 1918
Description: View from street towards the 310th U.S. Army Engineer Corps Supply Depot. There is a small group of soldiers standing in the open doorway of the supply dep...
Photograph

Ship at Dock at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of ship at a dock. Railroad tracks are in the foreground near low factory and storage buildings. The name on the back of the ship reads: "Nor...
Photograph

Ship at Dock at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: View looking down at ship at dock. A man stands at the edge of the dock just under the painted name of the ship, "Northwestern." Stacks of wheels are near ...
Photograph

Rear Entrance of A.S. Patterson Co. Ltd.

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Description: Rear entrance of A.S. Patterson Co. Ltd., Christchurch, New Zealand. Men are working near the entrance on what may be wagons or rail cars. Eight IHC tracto...
Map or Atlas

A Map of the Most Inhabited Part of Virginia Containing the Whole Province of Maryland: With Part of Pensilvania, New Jersey and North Carolina

Date: 1755
Description: Map of Virginia and parts of Maryland, North Carolina, and New Jersey. It shows borders, boundary lines, some Native American land, counties, cities, towns...
Photograph

Railroad Yard at Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: View of a loading platform by the railroad track at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East Mifflin...
Postcard

Cold Storage Plant, Lomira, Wis.

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Description: View across unpaved road towards a brick warehouse next to a dwelling. Attached to the postcard is an inset portrait of a seated women in the upper right c...

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