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Akron Works Truck Assembly Line

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Description: Interior view of truck assembly line workers at IHC's Akron Works factory, Akron, Ohio. The works originally belonged to the Aultman & Miller Buckeye Compa...
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Women's Lunch Room at IHC Osborne Works Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Slightly elevated view of female workers gathered in the women's lunch room at the International Harvester's Osborne Works twine mill. The factory was owne...
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Printing Twine Bags at McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: Workers stitching and printing labels on burlap bags used to store balls of binder twine at International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill. The McCormick w...
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House on Bernard Court

Date: 12 19 1936
Description: View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr...
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Madison Cafeteria Interior

Date: 10 30 1935
Description: Interior view of Madison Cafeteria, 215 W. Washington Avenue. There are seven servers behind the counter, and two customers are sitting at tables.
Book or Pamphlet

Frost and Wood Company Catalog

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Frost and Wood Company, manufacturers of agricultural equipment, Smith's Falls, Ontario, Canada. Features a color i...
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St. Josaphat's Church Construction Workers

Date: 1910
Description: Construction workers are posed in front of the partially-built St. Josaphat's Church on scaffolding and wooden steps near large columns. There are two chil...
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West Pullman Works

Date: 1930
Description: Male and female factory workers at West Pullman Works sitting at tables in a large room to work with metal parts.
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Bedford Springs Hotel

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Description: A view of the magnesium spring at Bedford Springs Hotel, founded in 1806. A man pours water said to cure stomach ailments from the magnesium spring into a ...
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Brewing Kettles

Date: 1936
Description: View from above of brewing kettles in the Pabst brewery in Milwaukee. There are workers standing on the ground floor, and in the far background is a large ...
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Main Street

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Description: View down street of intersection at Main Street. The commercial street houses a bank, printing press, clothing shop, and hotel. A man makes repairs from a ...
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Omnibus Line in Front of Park Hotel

Date: 1878
Description: View from the street of a man holding the reins for a team of two horses and sitting in the driver's seat of the Omnibus Line in front of the Park Hotel on...
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Raising "Wisconsin" to the Wisconsin State Capitol Dome

Date: 07 20 1914
Description: A group of men look on as the statue "Wisconsin" is lifted from the crate using ropes and pulleys. Ropes are wrapped around the statue and the statue's rig...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View of a group of construction workers standing on the side of the building on a stack of lumber. They are using a large wooden structure supporting a pul...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: Several construction workers rolling a stone column along supports embedded in the dirt during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: A worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure is chiseling details in the capital of a Corinthian column, at left, while behind him other men are work...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View from street toward the partially completed construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Grand Avenue. A man is standing and wat...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View along side of building toward construction workers moving materials during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Gra...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View looking up toward construction workers on the roof above the columns of the Eau Claire Public Library during its construction. The men are guiding a r...
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Concrete Block House

Date: 1910
Description: Six men in work clothes posing near a porch of a house under construction. Hollow core concrete blocks, most likely manufactured on site with local sand an...

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