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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Lake Michigan freighter with smoke billowing from smokestack. View from from bow looking back toward stern. |
| Date: | 04 17 1918 |
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| Description: | Workers loading wooden crates containing components for wagons or possibly "machine gun carts" onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Wo... |
| Date: | 05 17 1918 |
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| Description: | Boxed 240 mm mortar cart ready for shipment to the U.S. military from International Harvester's McCormick Works. Includes a trench mortar barrel. A man is ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of docks with ships tied up for the winter. The Reiss coal yard is in the background. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the Fox River, with a bridge and ship in the river. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | An unidentified East Coast warehouse full of food and supplies ready for shipment to the U.S. soldiers in France during World War I. |
| Date: | 07 09 1918 |
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| Description: | A group of factory workers lift and move a large wooden crate at International Harvester's McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of freighters lined up along the river. Caption reads: "Freighters, Menomonee River, Milwaukee, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of downtown. Part of the Milwaukee River is on the left side. Sign for the Germania building is in the lower right, and city hall is in the b... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a group of men and women sitting on the shore of Doller's Harbor. Nearby, a steamship can be seen at Doller's Wharf. Caption reads: "Doller's Wharf... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | View of ships moored in the harbor. Sign painted on the ship reads: "Brookline" and the barge next to the ship is loaded with railroad cars. "Atlantic Tran... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a dock, as naval stores are being loaded on a ship. Workers are on board the ship and on the dock, surrounded by cargo. Caption reads: "Loading Nav... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an iron ore ship unloading. Several workers are on board the ship. Caption reads: "Unloading Iron Ore At Sparrows Point, MD." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several ships at the ore docks of Maryland Steel Company. Text on the ship on the left may read "Craigeab" (text is difficult to make out). The nam... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Burlap bags marked with their weight sit on a shelf awaiting shipment. The text on the bag reads: "International Harvester Co. of N.J. Agricultural Extensi... |
| Date: | 02 29 1912 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in a suit and hat is standing next to a crane lifting machine crated for delivery. The wood building has tall ceilings and is filled with sta... |
| Date: | 10 28 1911 |
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| Description: | Tractors being crated for shipment are sitting outdoors at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 01 20 1912 |
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| Description: | A crate on the floor indoors at McCormick Works. Other crates are stacked upright on the left. Printed on the crate: "McCormick, Open End, Left Hand." |
| Date: | 01 20 1912 |
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| Description: | Male employee transporting machines crated for shipment on a cart. More crates are behind him. |
| Date: | 03 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Reaper parts along a wall on a factory floor. There is a backdrop hanging from the ceiling on the left. A long piece of wood is hanging from a pipe near th... |
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