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Interstate Highway Bridge Construction

Date: 1960
Description: Excavation for bridge column footings for the Mirror Lake Bridge.
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Jones Island

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Description: Elevated view of Jones Island fishing community in Milwaukee Harbor. Several shacks are visible as well as many fishing nets on net rollers. Ice on the wat...
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Construction Work on the New Free Bridge

Date: 01 23 1931
Description: View from shoreline of bridge during construction over the icy river.
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Construction Work on the New Free Bridge

Date: 1931
Description: View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S...
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Construction Work on the New Free Bridge

Date: 1931
Description: The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards...
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Ice Storm Aftermath

Date: 03 1975
Description: "Crews begin the cleanup after the ice storm."
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View of Solombola, Russia

Date: 1918
Description: View of Solombola from Archangel [Archangelsk], Russia. In the distance are series of cranes. In the foreground on the ice are stacks of logs near a pier m...
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Compound

Date: 1918
Description: Elevated view of an Allied compound in northern Russia. There are a series of railroad tracks that are leading away from the coast. In the far distance are...
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Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge

Date: 01 06 1958
Description: Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge construction. View is from Highway Bridge. There are ships on the right side beyond the bridge. The forested shoreline cur...
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Manitowoc Shipyard & Manitowoc Portland Cement Company

Date: 01 08 1958
Description: Elevated view over icy water towards ships in the shipyard on the left, and the cement company in the background. Cranes and industrial buildings are in th...
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Marinette

Date: 12 17 1957
Description: View of icy Lake Michigan from Ogden Street Bridge. There are piles of coal on the left and right, and what may be a jetty in the far distance.
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Shipping Pier at McCormick Works

Date: 02 05 1912
Description: View across icy water towards men posing on a ship at a shipping pier at McCormick Works. Factory buildings are in the background.
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Industrial Valley

Date: 02 1951
Description: Elevated view of the Fox River Valley from Memorial Drive bridge, looking East. Snow is on the ground, ice is on the river and the smokestacks are billowin...

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