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| Date: | 04 1893 |
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| Description: | Launching Captain Abe McDougall's whaleback boat, "Christopher Columbus", from the American Steel Barge Company dock. |
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| Description: | The Peter Grignon Shipyard next to the Marine Iron Company. |
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| Description: | The American Shipbuilding Company yard in winter with ships and a derrick in the center of the image. |
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| Description: | Colorized image of the frame of a large boat being built at the shipyards in Superior. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Self-unloader, the Detroit Edison, Hull 418, is under construction and surrounded by scaffolding at Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corporation. |
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| Description: | Workman working on the main reduction gears for a Victory Ship at the Falk Corporation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | The USS Illinois in the largest floating dry dock in the world at the time, surrounded by rowboats in the foreground. The battleship was built at Ne... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the shipyards with the Badger State cement plant in background. |
| Date: | 09 14 1967 |
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| Description: | Double reduction reverse gear that was later purchased by Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. Falk caption reads: "Photos taken for possible use as glam... |
| Date: | 06 16 1969 |
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| Description: | Paper mill debarker drum that was purchased and used by the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Company. Man in photograph is unidentified. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Four Pawling & Harnischfeger lattice girder bridges trolley hoists used in shipbuilding. There are men on the bridge of the nearest crane and the banner on... |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger double-runway lattice girder cranes used in shipbuilding. There are men on the bridge of the nearest crane and the banner on the cr... |
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| Description: | Four Pawling & Harnischfeger lattice girder cranes used in shipbuilding. There are men on the bridge of the nearest crane, and the banner on the crane read... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of four Pawling & Harnischfeger lattice girder bridges trolley hoists used in shipbuilding. There are men on the bridge of the nearest crane ... |
| Date: | 01 10 1942 |
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| Description: | S.S. Robert M. La Follette splashing into the Industrial Canal at its launch. |
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| Description: | View of a steamer ship in a dry dock location. Painted sign on the side of the dry dock reads: "L.A. Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. Dry Dock Lifting Capacit... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View over pier made of pilings towards a floating drydock, now embedded in the ice, near Solombola, Russia. There are tall buildings behind it on the oppos... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Aerial view showing shipyards, rivers and roads. |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over icy water towards ships in the shipyard on the left, and the cement company in the background. Cranes and industrial buildings are in th... |
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