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| Date: | 1888 |
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| Description: | Engraving of the factory of William Deering and Company with inset illustrations of men operating a horse-drawn grain binder and mower. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Engraving from the back of an advertising or trade card showing views of the Warder, Mitchell and Company factory buildings at Springfield, Ohio. The compa... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Illustration of the McCormick Reaper Works (factory) from an advertising folder. Printed by Gies and Company, Buffalo. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Inside spread of an advertising folder showing factory buildings of the D.M. Osborne Company. The top center illustration is the Office and Factory; bottom... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Stereograph view of the flour mill district. The Cedar Street Bridge is in the background, and the mills are, right to left going back, the Winnebago Flour... |
| 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: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye illustration of Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1877 |
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| Description: | Etching of interior of bonded warehouse with four men present, two conversing and two rolling barrels. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | View of the J. Schadauer Cigar Facotory at 216 State Street. In front of the factory are men, women and children. |
| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | View of the Appleton Woolen Mills from the south, circa 1895. The three-story building in the right front was constructed in 1893. The long, two-story bui... |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Lumber yard with boxcars and factory buildings in the back. Made while factory was under protection of the State Militia during the first general labor str... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory with lake and ships in the background. Trains, people, horses, and carriages, with a multitude of smokestacks in foreground. The f... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Etched print of factory with inset of Bay State Works in lower right corner. Lake with ships in background, with busy, buggy covered roads in foreground. ... |
| 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: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee works. Long steel mill located on the bank of either a lake or a river. Multitudes of smokestacks, tracks, and small buildings. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | First building of the 27th Street plant. |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of elevated view looking northwest from Exposition Building. There is a church on a street corner on the left, and the Best Brewing Company in ... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the La Crosse Wallis Carriage Co., manufacturers of fine family carriages, showing a view of the factory with the Mississippi River in the ba... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Berlin Woolen Mills bearing an engraving of the factory, which is unusual because of its French Mansard roof. |
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