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| Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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| Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
| Date: | 05 23 1925 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering all-steel threshers loaded on railroad cars outside International Harvester's West Pullman Works (factory). The factory originally belong... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Three men loading wooden crates from the back of an International Model F or 31 truck into a refrigerated railroad car. |
| Date: | 04 12 1923 |
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| Description: | Workers lowering McCormick-Deering 10-20 HP tractors onto railroad cars for shipment using an overhead crane at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 03 21 1927 |
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| Description: | Workers loading new folding stubble pulverizers onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Har... |
| Date: | 04 16 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of steam engine pulling railroad cars in the railroad yard at International Harvester's McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 06 11 1925 |
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| Description: | African American worker standing and loading cargo from a crane into a railroad boxcar from an International truck. Another worker is sitting behind the dr... |
| Date: | 04 21 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Commercial Club Band posing at a rail yard with a newly arrived shipment of McCormick-Deering ball-bearing cream separators. The cream... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory. |
| Date: | 08 06 1929 |
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| Description: | Texas Company U.S.A. (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant, 919 E. Main Street. Text on print reads: "Texas Company, Capitol Oil Co." |
| Date: | 08 06 1929 |
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| Description: | The Texas Company USA (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant at 919 E. Main Street. The view is from the east, with Texaco railroad tank car... |
| Date: | 07 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch. |
| Date: | 07 05 1929 |
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| Description: | Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch. |
| Date: | 05 16 1929 |
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| Description: | View of the Ellefson Lumber Company warehouse on Sutherland Court behind 2016 Winnebago Street. |
| Date: | 04 03 1929 |
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| Description: | A railroad tanker car is sitting on tracks next to fuel storage tanks at the Capitol Oil Company, 919 East Main Street. |
| Date: | 04 03 1929 |
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| Description: | View towards the Capitol Oil Company building, located at 919 East Main Street. |
| 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: | 06 14 1927 |
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| Description: | Loading barrels into a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad car behind the Hess Barrel Company (cooperage) at about 1950 Atwood Avenue. Stacks of oak barrel h... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View down platform towards the Wisconsin and Michigan Railroad. A box car of the Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Railroad is sitting on a rail s... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Atlas Mill. The paper making mill on the Fox River was built in 1878 and proved that paper could be made efficiently from gro... |
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