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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. |
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| Description: | Unloading barrels of goods from the "Ogdensburg" in the Milwaukee harbor. |
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| Description: | Milwaukee, south from Mitchell Block. View shows rooftops and building fronts. Ships and bridge are in the background on the right. |
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| Description: | A man unloads coal from a boat by walking a wheelbarrow across wooden platforms raised on scaffolds. In the background a man stands with an empty wheelbarr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Southeast panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works, rail yard and canal. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 1902. In 19... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Ore dock of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore, and Western Railroad, with a pile of logs in the foreground and docked ships in the background. |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Looking North. Harbor with boats, bridge, and buildings. |
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| Description: | View of a ship in the spring on the edge of the ice five miles off Nome. On shore, sleds and sled dogs are in the foreground. Caption reads: "The first boa... |
| Date: | 10 28 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of railroad yard and railroads cars on Jones Island. On the right is a large derrick or crane, and in the background are a number of freighte... |
| Date: | 05 17 1934 |
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| Description: | Men loading large "International Motor Truck" crates onto a ship with a crane. Men are working near the ship, and people are watching from the second-story... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Freighter from New Orleans in port at Habana [Havana?]. The ship is flying the Cuban flag. Another ship is in the background on the left. The ship transpor... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and dozer shovel loader to unload supplies on a beach. A ship is in the background. The ori... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines use an International TD-9 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a dozer shovel loader to fill a truck parked on a beach. A ship is in the water behind... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Marines use an International TD-18 Diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) to unload supplies and equipment from a ship. Many ships are in the water in the ba... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a boat owned by Julius Dettloff docked along the edge of a river. The boat was powered by an International PD-40 power unit; in the backgr... |
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| Description: | Women loading cargo onto a U.S. ship at St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands by way of baskets balanced on the tops of their heads. |
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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 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... |
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