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| Description: | Elevated view of many horse-drawn vehicles on a main street in an unidentified rural village, perhaps at a farmer's fair. A crowd of men is standing outsid... |
| Date: | 10 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy waves to the crowd who had come to see him introduce Presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower. On the train with him is John By... |
| Date: | 10 03 1952 |
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| Description: | Presidential candidate Dwight Eisenhower and Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy together on the rear car of the "Eisenhower Special." The location of thi... |
| Date: | 10 17 1912 |
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| Description: | Concrete plant at east end of the dam, showing the mixers, crane, and a rail car at the abutment. |
| Date: | 11 21 1912 |
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| Description: | Two workmen standing in the outlet of a steel draft tube in the power house, while other men are working above it. Cars are moving along the elevated trest... |
| Date: | 04 07 1913 |
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| Description: | Five men, two well-dressed, posing on electric rail cars during construction of the dam. |
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| Description: | Two men standing on top of a snow-covered railroad car. The top of the steam locomotive is the only area visible of the train. Photograph reads, "On the Ma... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Cargill Elevators and Great Northern Yards. Caption reads: "Cargill Elevators and Great Northern Yards, Superior, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A cotton bale sits on a platform next to a train, possibly awaiting shipment. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of rows of finished tractors cover a yard outside Milwaukee Works. On the left is a water tower, and in the foreground are railroad tracks wi... |
| Date: | 04 10 1935 |
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| Description: | A man, probably John S. Taylor, shoveling gravel into an International Model H Truck. The truck is parked near a railroad box car. Photograph taken by Berg... |
| Date: | 02 28 1923 |
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| Description: | A man stands at a small, run-down station while another man sits in an International Model G or 61 truck that has been rigged with railway gears, wheels an... |
| Date: | 11 29 1947 |
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| Description: | Charles Thiede, 2218 Rusk Street, is shown with his crew members before his last round-trip to Chicago. He is retiring after 41 years with the Chicago Nort... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large sign... |
| Date: | 09 1918 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the U.S. Government War Exposition at Grant Park taken from a window the International Harvester building on Michigan Avenue. A large crow... |
| Date: | 10 12 1926 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering Kerosene engine to run a conveyor to load grain onto a train boxcar near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada(?). A building in t... |
| Date: | 04 22 1911 |
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| Description: | Two men and a boy are posing on rail cars carrying two 150 horse-power boilers for use in the temporary power plant at the dam construction site at Prairie... |
| Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Forms have been removed from the first concrete poured for the power house in the northeast corner of the coffer dam. Men are pouring concrete from rail ca... |
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