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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A worker prepares to stamp a heated metal rod at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men working on cream separator parts at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Workers handling long rows of parts at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at their stations at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men cutting points on logs for fence posts. |
| Date: | 05 09 1912 |
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| Description: | Men with shovels working downstream from the east abutment, while other men are looking on. |
| Date: | 04 17 1921 |
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| Description: | Workers shoveling grain, possibly corn, onto a lake vessel. Probably on the lower Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 07 31 1947 |
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| Description: | Highway lane painting truck painting lane lines on Highways 12-13-14, University Avenue between Madison and Middleton. This is the first highway in the sta... |
| Date: | 08 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Jonas Staley, 1510 Jenifer Street, a 73-year-old man who enjoyed working outdoors in hot weather. He is shown putting in a sewer at 4226 Beverly Road. |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 09 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power house from the southwest showing progress of the brickwork. Two railroad cars are standing on the railroad extension. Workers ar... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of five men standing on a log and a plank of wood while another man is chopping at the log with an axe. |
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| Description: | Stereograph of two men stabilizing a vertical log while two other men stabilize a horizontal log. Around both logs there is a rope rigged to hold the two l... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a man as he rigs a rope around a log on a lumber raft. |
| Date: | 07 11 1926 |
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| Description: | A shovel, or excavator loads dirt into an International Model S truck. The text on the wooden cab of the shovel appears to read: "Marion Shovel - Model 21"... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman and two men work with wooden crates at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women load wooden crates onto a boxcar at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
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| Description: | Hod Carriers Union and Workers Alliance during W.P.A. period, community meeting near the school in the late 1930s and 1940s. Depicted: Ralph Tefferteller, ... |
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| Description: | An unknown group of men lifting a pulley in the process of constructing an unknown building. A man in the background is filming the process. |
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| Description: | Two men wearing hats, one of whom is carrying a bucket and a tool, walking across the street from a large building. |
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