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| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Reaper, grain binder and mower in a yard outside the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Esterly Harvesting Machine Company looking southeast across State Street at intersection with Newcomb Street. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Esterly Harvesting Machine Company looking southwest across State Street at intersection with Newcomb Street. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Esterly Harvesting Machine Company looking north across Milwaukee Street. Buildings shown include the Packing and Shipping Department (far left), the Paint... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | The No. 1 Cotton Mill. Plank sidewalk in foreground. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | View of the Cereal Mills Company building, with men and a horse-drawn buggy outside on of the buildings on the right. Another man is standing on the far le... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Empire Mill. Alongside the building are railroad cars at a loading dock. The signs on the mill read: "Globe", "Globe's Empire... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking north towards Menomonie, the Knapp, Stout and Company lumber mills. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company showing a "scene in the Osborne rolling mill." The Osborne company manufactured agricultural m... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street towards the Dousman Office building, later used as a pearl button factory. A large group of people are sitting and standing at ... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | A group of factory workers sit on wooden benches in front of a brick building to have their portrait taken. The workers were employees of the McCormick Rea... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Section of the factory at a crossroads with road construction workers outside. Name of company visible on building. |
| Date: | 05 06 1894 |
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| Description: | View from the Monongahela River of the Edgar W. Thompson steel works. An oar from Thwaites' boat is visible in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | 40 H.P. experimental tractor. Original caption reads: "40 H.P., Built in 1896." |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Elevated winter view of the Leinenkugel Brewery seen "from top of Mill." Originally called "Spring Brewery," Jacob Leinenkugel opened his brewery in 1867 i... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Several wagon loads of lumber stand in the yard of a planing mill. |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Workers at the Willms cigar factory, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, posing with cigars and cigar boxes. Gustav Willms (c. 1854-1917) sits on the far left with six c... |
| Date: | 09 28 1895 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of wagons filled with potatoes parked near a starch factory. In 1895, 125,000 bushels of potatoes were converted into starch. Railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Promotional card advertising the hemlock barn industry in northern Wisconsin. The card features an elevated view of a tannery. Caption: THE HEMLOCK BARK ... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Joseph Steinwand Cheese Factory, with a windmill and scrap lumber scattered along the fence. |
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