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| Date: | 1997 |
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| Description: | The steel and reinforced concrete grain elevator built by the Great Northern Railroad at Superior about 1900. This contemporary photograph was taken to acc... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | W.W. Cargill Company's grain elevator. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across water towards a grain elevator on the site of the old Elmore & Kelly's elevator. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view. Caption reads: "Green Bay and Western R. R. Elevator and Shops, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the harbor. On the left is a grain elevator and wood pulp on the wharf. In the center background is the Northern Paper Mills and to the right are ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "The Great Northern. One of the largest Elevators in the World, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Aerial view with docks in the foreground. Caption reads: "Superior, Wisconsin." |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of multiple Sawyer buildings from the Lyon's grain elevator. |
| Date: | 04 17 1921 |
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| Description: | Workers shoveling grain, possibly corn, onto a lake vessel. Probably on the lower Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 12 28 1906 |
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| Description: | Landscape photograph of the Fairchild grain elevator on a winter's day. There are workers steering two horse-drawn carts in the foreground. |
| Date: | 12 28 1906 |
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| Description: | Fairchild grain elevator on a winter's day. A man and a leashed dog stand in the foreground. |
| Date: | 11 29 1989 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of the Union Street Bridge in the village of Rosholt created by taping three images together. |
| Date: | 01 20 1989 |
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| Description: | Grain storage building located near the railroad tracks. The wrecker service truck parked near the warehouse bears the slogan, "the happy hooker." |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a boat owned by Julius Dettloff docked along the edge of a river. The boat was powered by an International PD-40 power unit; in the backgr... |
| Date: | 01 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the front of the Kinnan Brothers hay and grain dealers' store. Two automobiles are parked near the storefront. An International PD-80 ope... |
| Date: | 08 18 1963 |
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| Description: | View of the porch of a vacant at 535 10th Avenue with grain elevators in the background. This particular group of grain elevators were called "Tanktown." |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A steam tractor is hauled along a dirt road by a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor. A building with text reading "Miller Elevator Co." stands in the backg... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View across the Kinnickinnic River of the Pabst brewery grain elevator. A Schlitz building, possibly one of their grain elevators, stands behind the Pabst ... |
| Date: | 05 1958 |
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| Description: | Photocopy of a map created by the City of Milwaukee Master Plan Program City Planning Division in May of 1958 representing 1870 "THE CENTRAL AREA OF THE CI... |
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