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| Date: | 01 1953 |
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| Description: | R-110 delivery truck owned by Simpson Trucking Company, Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Date: | 03 02 1956 |
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| Description: | A seamless pipe fitting sits atop a railroad car, ready to be shipped. Later purchased and used by Elmes & Kings. Original Falk caption reads: "14' high-78... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman and two men work with wooden crates at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women load wooden crates onto a boxcar at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An International L-195 truck owned by the Field Fruit Company parked at an open-air roofed building at a wharf alongside another vehicle. The original capt... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Farmall tractors ready for delivery by rail and truck leave International Harvester's Farmall Works factory. In the foreground are stacks ... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Farmall tractors are loaded onto railroad cars as they prepare to leave International Harvester's Farmall Works factory. On the locomotive... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Map of the barley-growing regions of North America, published by the Rahr Malting Company, Manitowoc, Wisconsin, 1952. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | This map of Superior shows labeled streets, waterways, railroads, and company ownership of docks. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of a shipyard scene with International trucks being loaded onto a ship at Station Pier in Melbourne, Victoria. Men are loading trucks an... |
| Date: | 01 06 1958 |
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| Description: | Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge construction. View is from Highway Bridge. There are ships on the right side beyond the bridge. The forested shoreline cur... |
| Date: | 01 06 1958 |
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| Description: | Ahnapee & Western Railway Bridge from north side of frozen Sturgeon Bay. The bridge is made of wood (and steel supports???). There is a dock in the foregro... |
| Date: | 01 08 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from 8th Street Bridge over the Manitowoc River towards Lake Michigan. There is a lighthouse in the distance. Ice is floating on the water. A... |
| Date: | 01 07 1958 |
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| Description: | View across water to ship moored at a dock. Smoke is coming out of the smokestack. Industrial buildings are across the water on the right. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the harbor and port facilities. |
| Date: | 02 18 1958 |
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| Description: | The SS Meteor, a Great Lakes cargo steamship of whaleback design, coming into harbor. The ship is covered with snow and ice and the surface of the l... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Harbor Scene, Racine Wisconsin." A large ship is docked in Racine's harbor, with another ship and harbor facilities. |
| Date: | 07 30 1952 |
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| Description: | Text on reverse reads: "G-1–Ore Boat Leaving Duluth-Superior Harbor, Lift Bridge Raised. Giant lake freighters leave Duluth-Superior Harbor, the world's la... |
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