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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company single leg gantry crane handling steel at the Racor Pacific Frog and Switch Works. There are a couple of m... |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger gantry crane with a specifically designed drive for handling railroad cars. Two men stand below the crane. |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company half ton single leg gantry crane in a steel operation. There is a driver in a truck beneath the crane, and... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane over a railroad track and piles of lumber, with a building on the right. There is a sign that... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company floor operated half ton auxiliary hoist. The hoist assembly is marked "1,000 Lbs," and is above a set of d... |
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| Description: | Elevated view across river of the S.S. Hyacinth of the U.S. Lighthouse Service being repaired at the Manitowoc Ship Building Company dock. The Fr... |
| Date: | 12 22 1937 |
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| Description: | View from side of road of an International Model A-8 truck marked "C.P. Ward, Inc." hauling a trailer with a large crane. One man is driving the truck, ano... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A man stands on the back of an International truck used by the Big Rock Stone & Material Company. The advertisement on the side of the truck features an il... |
| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An International D-500 truck owned by the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company is parked in the foreground of an industrial area near railroad tracks. In the bac... |
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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: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View from atop a building across Wisconsin Avenue of the Fuller Opera House during its demolition. |
| Date: | 09 30 1943 |
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| Description: | The 56th Construction Battalion of Seabees dismantles fuel tanks using a crane and an International K-line truck. The original caption reads: "Project No. ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | International crawler-tractors outfitted with Trackson cranes park in rows in a dirt lot. The original caption reads: "Just as is the case with Internation... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of International TD-9 crawler tractors (TracTracTors) equipped with bulldozers and front-end loaders parked in rows in a dirt lot. The origin... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Seabees use an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a crane ("cherry picker") to load cargo on a Western Pacific island. The text on the crane ... |
| 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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| 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... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | A distant view of Madero Lumber Company. There are houses and other residential buildings in the foreground, and the lumber works in the background. In the... |
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