Date: | 1907 |
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Description: | Employees of the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad posing in the roundhouse. |
Date: | 1949 |
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Description: | A man wearing a cowboy hat is using hooks on the end of a chain to move a bale of sisal fiber on an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. A curved t... |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | An early Pawling and Harnischfeger cab-operated crane with dial operated controllers and a 5-ton type "O" bridge with a type "A" trolley. The operator is i... |
Date: | 1939 |
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Description: | A miner fastening a chain to a mining car in order to be pulled from the shaft by a drum hoist. The drum hoist was powered by an International U-7 power un... |
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Description: | Two miners in the interior of a mine. Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. Caption reads: "Undergro... |
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Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A group of young men are shown mining underground. Caption rea... |
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Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A jig room is shown with a miner. Caption reads: "Typical Jig-... |
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Description: | Webb City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State ... |
Date: | 09 10 1946 |
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Description: | Young worker operates a large lever on railroad tracks. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers bel... |
Date: | 09 15 1946 |
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Description: | Workers standing on railroad tracks. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the Nation... |
Date: | 1969 |
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Description: | Paul Timm, Arno Timm and Stephen Timm work together sawing a log, which has full 16 foot boards and is 20 feet long. |
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Description: | The fast movement was a nervous reach for something west. But along the way there was no hurry. Wait for noontime, turned round to a movement eastward,<... |
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Description: | For any master line drawn fine enough or spoken well let us call all professionals to wear the laurel and deck the Halls of Fame |
Date: | 1910 |
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Description: | A workman poses beside a belt-driven polisher inside a shed at the Montello granite quarry. Two other men relax in the background near an open door where n... |
Date: | 04 25 1912 |
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Description: | A man (blurred by movement) using a shovel is bending over a pile of coal near the open door of a furnace indoors on factory floor. More furnaces are in th... |
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