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| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face. |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A group of young men are shown mining underground. Caption rea... |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with three men and a dog on railroad tracks, also a man in the far background. Two of the men are up on the snowbanks with shovels. "The Grand... |
| 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: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a construction site, with men working by a railway track with sand haulers, and a brick viaduct. Location identified as the fill and reconstru... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a large group of people standing near the wreck of a train. Railroad cars have fallen over to the left of the tracks. Two... |
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| Description: | A group of men, some with shovels, are working near the front of a locomotive that has derailed. There is a pile of sacks in the background on the right. A... |
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| Description: | View towards men standing on railroad tracks and near the wreckage of a train. |
| Date: | 03 1881 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad right of way. Between F... |
| Date: | 03 1881 |
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| Description: | A winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm in Racine County. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad righ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, railroad workers, fixing the wooden railroad ties. In the background are railroad cars on another set of railroad tracks.m |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards two men working near the entrance to a tunnel. The man on the left is using a pick, the other man is using a shovel. Wate... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a railroad crew laying tracks. The ties are in place and the rails are being positioned on the first level. The bank behind the crew is terr... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men posing with ore carts on railroad tracks. One man is standing on the dirt in the cart to the right. They are possibly excavating more di... |
| Date: | 05 05 1917 |
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| Description: | View down set of railroad tracks that cross a street through an open gate and head into a railroad yard. There is a man standing near a brick building on t... |
| Date: | 04 25 1912 |
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| Description: | A man (blurred by movement) using a shovel is bending over a pile of coal near the open door of a furnace indoors on factory floor. More furnaces are in th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of railroad workers posing for a group portrait on the rails. Three men are standing on a handcar. They all are holding the implements they use in the... |
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