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| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Four workers crating up International motor trucks for export shipment at International Harvester's Springfield Works (factory). One of the men is wearing ... |
| Date: | 04 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
| Date: | 03 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ... |
| Date: | 04 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging an intermediate bin for mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel C... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A young boy helps his grandfather unload a cart of split logs. |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A workman grinds a cylinder head at Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company, 754 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 01 19 1939 |
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| Description: | Men with tractor-truck unloading large rolls of paper at the Wisconsin State Journal, 115 South Carroll Street. Grace Episcopal Church, 110 W. Washington, ... |
| Date: | 10 05 1937 |
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| Description: | Three Klein-Dickert paperhangers and painters at work in a house. |
| Date: | 09 26 1933 |
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| Description: | A.H. Hubbell Company workers build a "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining" brick wall around a boiler in the engine room at Arcade Manufacturing C... |
| Date: | 09 26 1933 |
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| Description: | Nine brick layers with supervisor in engine room. Caption on print reads: "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining at Arcade Manufacturing Co., Freepo... |
| Date: | 08 17 1933 |
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| Description: | A worker fixing a tire in front of racks of Gillette tires in the Licari garage, 767 W. Washington Avenue, in the Greenbush neighborhood. |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P... |
| Date: | 12 27 1929 |
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| Description: | Four men laying Novoid Corkboard on the roof of the Tenney Building, located at 110 East Main Street. |
| Date: | 12 09 1929 |
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| Description: | Unloading oats at the Stock Pavillon. In front a man is standing on a horse-drawn wagon near a tractor powering a grain elevator. |
| Date: | 11 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Three mechanics are working on an automobile in the Capital Buick body shop located at 750 E. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 12 1928 |
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| Description: | Men unloading Frigidaire refrigerators from New York Central/Cincinnati Northern railroad box car to truck. The delivery is for the Gay Brothers Apartments... |
| Date: | 04 27 1987 |
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| Description: | A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler. |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of the Gogebic Range iron miners. |
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