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Stone Crushing Plant

Date: 10 20 1928
Description: View of the Stone Crushing Plant on Hwy #27 near Soldiers Grove.
Photograph

Men Moving Bust of "Mr. Musselman"

Date: 1963
Description: Five men preparing to lift a bust of "Mr. Musselman" with an International TD-6 crawler tractor and Drott high-lift bucket loader. The "Mr. Musselman" bust...
Photograph

Worker Transporting Parts at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1920
Description: Worker using a motorized shop cart ("shop mule") to transport parts between buildings at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The cart was manufactur...
Photograph

Conklin Ice House

Date: 1912
Description: Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p...
Photograph

Gravel Pit

Date: 05 04 1929
Description: Carl E. & Paul G. Roth gravel pit with conveying equipment.
Poster

International Power Advertising Poster

Date: 1937
Description: Advertising poster for International industrial equipment, including crawler tractors (TracTracTors), industrial tractors and shop mules. Includes photo il...
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: A truck from the field is dumping a load of onions onto a conveyor belt to be inspected, sorted, and bagged. Workers in the background, who were represente...
Postcard

Ice House Bay

Date: 1913
Description: Ice House Bay and the lake. A man and a dog are standing on dock in the foreground, and on the right is a man in rowboat. There is a large building on the...
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Metro Dispatcher for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket

Date: 1958
Description: Dispatcher Bud Hufford loading groceries onto one of seven International Metro trucks owned by Hazan's Telphone Supermarket.
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Northeast View of Power House Coffer Dam at Power Dam

Date: 08 07 1912
Description: Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou...
Photograph

Coal Handling Tower

Date: 11 11 1985
Description: Original Falk caption reads, "Coal handling tower resources. All product taken by Jim Nowicki, local photographer."
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Conveyor at Roth Gravel Pit

Date: 02 16 1931
Description: Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. conveyor belt loading gravel into hopper which is filling a C.E. & P.A. Roth truck at their gravel pit, 1910 Roth Street ne...
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Loading Truck Crates onto Ship

Date: 05 17 1934
Description: Men loading large "International Motor Truck" crates onto a ship with a crane. Men are working near the ship, and people are watching from the second-story...
Photograph

I-4 Tractor with Crane in Waterworks Yard

Date: 1946
Description: International I-4 industrial tractor with crane owned by the Milwaukee Waterworks. Original caption reads: "The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purchased thi...
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Men Moving Cargo at St. Paul Works

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers unloading a rail car on a loading dock at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun M...
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Preparing St. Paul Works for Gun Manufacture

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Factory workers use a crane mounted on a truck to unload a transformer on the loading dock of International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption re...
Photograph

Tractors on Rail Cars for "Food and Defense"

Date: 05 01 1941
Description: Factory workers loading Farmall tractors onto rail cars outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. Original caption reads: "Machines for use in the p...
Photograph

Wheel Tractors for National Defense

Date: 04 24 1941
Description: International military tractor on a rail car, most likely at Internaitonal Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). Original caption reads: "A wheel-type Diese...
Photograph

Loading Rail Car

Date: 1937
Description: Men load a rail car with crushed gravel or other material using rock crusher(?) on a trailer. The trailer has the text "sold by Dakota Equipment Company, S...
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Husker and Shredder Near Barn

Date: 1912
Description: A man operating a Husker-Shredder near a barn and silo. The husker-shredder is powered with a belt connected to an engine.

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