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| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | A worker lifting a stationary gas engine frame with an overhead crane at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee ... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two workers pouring molten metal from a crane-held vat into a mold to make castings at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by ... |
| Date: | 08 1946 |
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| Description: | Tank car wreck at the Grand Trunk Western Railroad car ferry docks. A man wearing a hat is in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to position a version of the Forward statue that was the symbol of the 1948 Wisconsin Centennial Exposition and State Fair. |
| Date: | 08 1948 |
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| Description: | Fair employees use a crane to complete the positioning of the "Forward" statue at the Wisconsin Centennial Exposition. The grandstand can be seen in the ba... |
| Date: | 07 17 1914 |
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| Description: | Menominee River coal yards, west from the 16th Street viaduct. There is a cargo ship called the "John B. Cowle" in the harbor between two coal yards. Worke... |
| Date: | 08 15 1971 |
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| Description: | This drive was purchased by Paceco. Falk caption reads, "2197Z2 speed reducer, for SL7-Paceco Portainer Cranes... this unit ratio 25.516:1, input 650 rpmm ... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Men working near large dredge on Jones Island. Large piles of material are on the ground below the dredge. There is a ship on the right. In the distance a... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | International I-4 industrial tractor with crane owned by the Milwaukee Waterworks. Original caption reads: "The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purchased thi... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of shop floor of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger 20-ton type "N" dial controlled cab-operated traveling crane. The crane is in machine sho... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist with the operator sitting in the cab. The text on the lower right reads "J. Brown, Photo 537-12-S... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail crane with the operator in the cab. The photographer, though not listed on the negative, is very likely... |
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| Description: | Pawling and Harnischfeger traveling electric monorail hoist carrying a piece of equipment at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. There's an operator in th... |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger type "AN" crane with a type "A" trolley and a standard hook at Holthoff Machinery Co., Power & Mining Machine Co. There is a man in... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 40-ton bridge crane with a 10-ton 2 block type "A" trolley and two hooks. The crane is located at the West Allis Works. The crane i... |
| Date: | 08 15 1913 |
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| Description: | Men at desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger advertising department. Large windows on left look out towards another building, and men on equipment can be se... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A small backyard garden is in the foreground near what appears to be a house. Men are working next to two trucks and a crane in the background. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | A crane and a truck in a clearing between a road lined with telephone poles and a row of houses. On the right near the truck a man is working. The license ... |
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| Description: | Rear view of a trench dug by a ditch digger. A man walks towards the ditch digger from two trucks, one fitted with a crane-like attachment, which are parke... |
| Date: | 05 18 1911 |
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| Description: | A man uses a horse-drawn wagon to transport building materials on a construction site at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Men are clearin... |
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