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I-30 Tractor with Hough Shovel Digging Gravel

Date: 06 18 1935
Description: Commonwealth Edison worker using a McCormick-Deering I-30 industrial tractor with a loader to scoop gravel off of a city street. The loader was manufacture...
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Kewaunee County Road Crew

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Description: Kewaunee County road crew.
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International TD-14A Crawler Tractor Bulldozer

Date: 1952
Description: Man moving earth in South Africa with an International TD-14A crawler tractor equipped with a Bucyrus-Erie bulldozer. A man with oxen and a "primitive" ex...
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International Model 63 Truck Loaded by Steam Shovel

Date: 08 16 1926
Description: Men loading an International Model 63 truck with a steam shovel, or crane. The truck is operated by the Plack Transfer Company. The truck has been rigged w...
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Seabees with International TD-18

Date: 1944
Description: Seabees at Camp Rousseau train to use an International TD-18 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) equipped with a bulldozer. Various vehicles and machinery...
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Belmont Hotel Window Painting

Date: 06 18 1952
Description: William F. Guethlein, Sauk City, resting on a scaffold on the Belmont Hotel, 31 North Pinckney Street. He has been repairing and painting the hotel windows...
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York Iron Works

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Description: York Iron Works, with a group of men posed standing in front of the construction of the blast furnace.
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Construction of a Building Foundation

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Description: Four men in the foreground are posing standing with shovels in a large hole in the ground. In the background behind a wall, men are working near cars along...
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Walking Dredge

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Description: View of a walking dredge in a field. A man, a woman holding a child, and a young boy are on the dredge, and a woman perches on the projecting arm, and anot...
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Summer Construction

Date: 08 17 1958
Description: Building for a new “supermarket” food and household necessities store, under construction on the outskirts of the Milwaukee area. In the background is a ba...
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Tractor-Powered Rock Crusher

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Description: Tractor-powered rock crusher in what appears to be a factory yard. One man is standing on the tractor, and another man is standing on the rock crusher. Bui...
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Men Using TD-24 Crawler Tractors Constructing Veterans Hospital

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Description: Owned by Henry M. Turpin, 3300 Vine St., Cincinnati, Ohio. TD-24's used with a Bucyrus-Erie 170 scrapers and P-29 winches. The TD-18's used with Heil bulld...
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Hough HR Loader

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Description: A New Rochelle construction worker moving concrete debris using a Hough HR Loader.
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Man Operating TD-25 to Move Tree

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Description: Man operating a TD-25 to move a tree. The sign painted on the side reads: "Riemer Bros. Inc. Schiller Park, ILL." There is a building in the background on ...
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Two Men Working with Saw at Construction Site

Date: 10 22 1923
Description: Two men are working with a large saw powered by a tractor on a construction site. There is an automobile on the right, and a tent in the background near a ...
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Trucks and Steam Shovel

Date: 07 29 1926
Description: View across field towards men leaning against trucks parked near a steam shovel next to a building.
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Delivery Truck

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: A man is sitting in a delivery truck which is backed up to a piece of machinery. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "Barber-Greene."
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Wagon at Construction Site

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Description: A wagon is being raised or lowered at a construction site. The wagon has chains looped around the axle of each wheel as a man below signals directions. He ...
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Glander Building, Construction

Date: 1914
Description: View of the construction site of the Glander Building on the northeast corner of S. 9th and Washington Streets. A masonry crew is constructing the foundati...
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I-6 — Material Handling

Date: 1950
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a tractor. Subject: "I-6 — Material Handling." Where Taken: "Pacific." Information with photograph rea...

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