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| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | A unusual scene on an unidentified farmstead probably located near Pleasant Springs, Wisconsin. A family is posed in the yard of a frame house, as is usual... |
| Date: | 05 06 1911 |
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| Description: | Workmen posing while erecting the first smokestack at the power plant construction site on the Wisconsin River. Two men have scaled the stack. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from water of Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends ove... |
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| Description: | Stacks of logs are in the foreground with a man in a hat near the river. There is a chimney billowing smoke near the factory. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Frank Hurn, driver for Davidson Transfer & Storage Company, wiping the windshield of an International D-40 truck. The truck appears to be parked near a har... |
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| Description: | Uniroyal workers cross a suspension bridge over water at the end of a work shift. In the background are factory buildings and a smokestack. |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Waterside view toward a couple canoeing by a boathouse and docks on the Ohio Canal, with a steel bridge in the left background. Smoke streams across the sk... |
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| Description: | A view of the Alexander Stewart Lumber Company, at 502 3rd Street. Several men are fishing off the bridge/dam over the river. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | View from railroad bridge of the harbor at Green Bay. On the other side of the harbor, there are many industrial buildings, including Northern Paper Mills,... |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | The Ramsay & Jones Mill with logs in the water in the foreground. |
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| Description: | View across water of the dredge "Winneconne" on the Fox River canal. Although undated the photograph was probably taken during the 1940s. The "Winneconne"... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The Municipal Light and Power Plant and water tower seen from across a pond. |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Berliner & Bruno's Badger State Safe Steam Works of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a three-quarter view of the steam works and depot, people ... |
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| Description: | Three men posed standing on the porch of a small brick building with a tall smokestack, probably the City Water Pumping Station at Town Creek, surrounded b... |
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| Description: | View down hill of man posed sitting in a boat near the bank of a river taken from an iron mound of the York Iron Works. There is a view of the blast furnac... |
| Date: | 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Ferdinand Hotz, holding a cigarette, posing on skis. His wife, Clothilde, stands on the left with a long walking stick; daughter Helen (L... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Two men stand in the open back of a pickup truck. The truck, equipped with chains on the rear tires, has driven down a wooden ramp onto the ice. There is... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a lock at Appleton, with views of mills and other structures in the background. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View of men standing near a T-intersection. The three-story building on the left side of the intersection has a sandwich board advertising "Ice Cream." A m... |
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