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Ready Mixed Concrete Truck

Date: 11 10 1937
Description: Castle & Doyle Rex Moto Mixer truck delivering ready mixed concrete in the alley behind Dean Clinic, 113-115 N. Carroll Street, with five men looking on.
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Steam Locomotive Used at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery and used to provide...
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Steam Locomotive at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was ...
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Railroad Construction

Date: 1890
Description: Men building a culvert on the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Westerm railway. In the background both horses and oxen teams are being used.
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Silhouette at World Trade Center

Date: 1969
Description: Silhouette of a construction worker during the construction of the World Trade Center.
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Worker in Trailer

Date: 1969
Description: A construction worker leans in the doorway of a break trailer at the construction site of the World Trade Center.
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Construction Workers Jackhammering

Date: 1969
Description: Two construction workers jackhammer through a sidewalk at the construction site of the World Trade Center.
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Starting the Day at the World Trade Center

Date: 1969
Description: Workers entering the construction area for the World Trade Center at the start of the work day.
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War Chest Day's Pay Pledge

Date: 10 04 1945
Description: Madison Building and Construction Trades workers on the job at the Hoofer Glass Co. take time out to sign their pledge cards for one day's pay to the Madis...
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Construction Worker Talking on Telephone

Date: 1969
Description: Construction worker talking in a telephone booth.
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Construction Workers on Steel Framework

Date: 1969
Description: Construction workers on the World Trade Center steel framework.
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Construction Workers at Dam Construction Site

Date: 1915
Description: Workers posing in a doorway at the Prairie du Sac dam construction site. Two men appear to be working on a gas lamp, while others are holding spools of wir...
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Construction Workers at Dam Construction Site

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like...
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Men Working on Concrete Forms

Date: 1914
Description: A group of workmen posing while working on concrete forms at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Their position high above the water level affords an expansive up...
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Group of Construction Workers

Date: 1914
Description: A group of bricklayers posing with the tools of their trade in front of an unfinished brick wall at the Prairie du Sac dam site. Note the wooden form for a...
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East Shore Abutment Under Construction

Date: 04 14 1911
Description: Workers posing inside the forms for the east shore abutment at the power dam site.
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Construction Worker Crouched at Manhole

Date: 1969
Description: A construction worker wearing a red hard hat crouches next to an open manhole in the street.
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Gathered Construction Workers

Date: 1969
Description: A group of construction workers gather near the office for the Sand Chapter of Mechanical Contractors.
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T-20 and Sideboom

Date: 1937
Description: Workers lay a pipeline in a field using an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and sideboom. Original caption states: "Jones & Hannahan."
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Chicago Fence and Equipment Company Truck

Date: 1941
Description: Coils of chain-link fencing are piled on the back of a parked International K-5 truck used by the Chicago Fence & Equipment Company. Behind the truck men a...

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