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Workers Filling Railroad Cooling Car with Ice

Date: 1966
Description: Two workers filling a railroad cooling car with ice from an International truck at a railroad yard.
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Telephone Company Truck

Date: 05 20 1960
Description: Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office.
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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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Construction Workers at World Trade Center

Date: 1969
Description: Two construction workers with hard hats at the World Trade Center.
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Fishing Nets Drying

Date: 1967
Description: Fishing nets drying along the shore of Lake Michigan.
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Construction Workers Digging a Hole

Date: 1969
Description: Three construction workers, two in the hole, and one above, digging at the World Trade Center construction site.
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Migrant Cherry Pickers

Date: 1963
Description: Filiberto Almendarez and his children, who are migrant workers, pose in front of cherry trees. The family, including Filiberto and children, Filiberto Jr.,...
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Knives on Display

Date: 1969
Description: Knives and shears in a display case behind a show window, which is reflecting buildings and clouds in the sky.
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Unchaining the Load

Date: 04 1966
Description: Roman (Bud) J. Engels strips off last wrapper chain from International 8066 Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET).
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Movie Set Construction

Date: 09 18 1961
Description: Several men constructinbg a movie set in a small, downtown area.
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Man Standing Outside of Building

Date: 05 07 1962
Description: Rollo Jamison stands outside a horizontal log building. A set of deer antlers are mounted on the eave above Mr. Jamison. There is a farm implement behind h...
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Side Wall of Country Home

Date: 10 18 1964
Description: View of a side wall and rear entrance of a small country home owned by Mrs. Kay Curtis. A collection of yard tools hang from the siding near a screen door,...
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"Country Store Farm Museum"

Date: 04 18 1965
Description: The "Early American Country Store Farm Museum." Storefront view of an antique shop with various farm implements on its front porch.
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Tar Wagon, West 181st Street

Date: 1968
Description: Close-up of tools on the back of a tar wagon on West 181st Street. Tar soaked brooms glisten in the sun and a pot of tar loosely covered with a hub cap si...
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Boy Practicing Cattle Roping

Date: 1962
Description: 6-year-old Kirk Hanna uses a lasso to practice cattle roping on a pair of bull horns affixed to a log in a barnyard. A horse is tied to a fence on the righ...
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Cherry Picking in Door County

Date: 1967
Description: A man pours a large pot of freshly picked cherries into an evaporated milk carton. The carton rests on a sign reading, "Cherries, Pick Your Own." Cherry tr...
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Tapped Maple Tree

Date: 1966
Description: View of a tapped Maple tree collecting sap in a covered bucket. The forest is covered in snow, and a small cabin is in the background.
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Elmer Harris Gathering Sap from Trees

Date: 1966
Description: Elmer Harris is pouring sap into a large container on a Farmall tractor-pulled trailer. The forest has large, tapped Maple trees with buckets collecting th...
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Maple Syrup Shack

Date: 1966
Description: View of a maple syrup shack on the side of a hill. Smoke is billowing out of the doorway, which is blocked by a wheel barrel full of wood. Two men are in t...
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Snow-Covered Maple Trees Collecting Sap

Date: 1966
Description: Winter scene, with a forest of snow-covered tapped Maple trees collecting sap.

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