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| Date: | 1825 |
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| Description: | Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri... |
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| Description: | Stereograph showing workers digging a ditch with a tractor and laying drain tile. |
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| Description: | View of a crew surveying land, digging a ditch, and laying drain tile. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of quarrymen posing with their implements. There are carts on tracks that lead to the cliffs of the quarry behind the group. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Men pose on top of and in front of the Spaulding, Van Hoosier & Company Sawmill. |
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| Description: | Cement mixer and construction crew at a work site. Smoke pours from the exhaust pipe on top. Bags of material and other equipment can be seen on the left a... |
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| Description: | The boss says — The center is — Good workmen then served two masters One a man, the other a craft A fine-edged tool biting life-long in... |
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| Description: | In the afternoon, nothing Overnight, unseen In the morning, a wooden horse with strangers sending telegrams for more |
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| Description: | "I am the man with measuring pole on my shoulder. At the age of 21 years I was sawing log in the woods. Since then I have seen the old time way go and the ... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Algerian men are plastering a straw stack with clay. Another straw stack can be seen on the right. Hills are barely visible in the distance. An out-of-focu... |
| Date: | 05 11 1938 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of two men using dynamite to break rock. One man is prying at a crevasse with a pole. |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Lithograph print of a drawing depicting two men working in a hay barn. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Linoleum cut engraved view of men building a log cabin. One man carries a log in the background near a lake or river, while another man nails a log held in... |
| Date: | 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Linoleum cut print of a man using a cant hook to move logs. Other lumberjacks work in the background. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of three workmen building a stone wall next to a shed. |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Large group of people posed in, on and around the frame of a barn at a barn raising. A smaller building is in the background on the left. Cultivated fields... |
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| Description: | Barn raising, showing the stone foundation and timbers stacked in a pile in the foreground. A smaller building is on the left behind the tower support for ... |
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| Description: | Group of men working on a barn raising, showing some of the workers up on the frame securing the timbers, and other workers carrying more timbers into posi... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of workmen posing with a partially built shed or corn crib. One man in sitting on the roof timbers. Two wagons with lumber are parked... |
| Date: | 05 1909 |
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| Description: | A log driving crew at Eagle Rapids Dam on the Chippewa River. Bottom of print reads: "Eagle Rapids Jam. May, 18-09." |
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