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| Date: | 10 1978 |
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| Description: | Two men are kneeling on the ground. One man is holding a shovel while the other man is scooping dirt from the shovel into a glass jar. They are measuring P... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Two logging roads diverge in a stand of burned jack pine trees, dividing the scene into three parts. In the background, near the left branch of the road, t... |
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| Description: | View of workers and supervisors during construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant. The floor is covered in plastic. The renovat... |
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| Description: | Construction site showing men excavating the foundation and basement of a building. Teams of horses are hitched to wagons. The men are using various implem... |
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| Description: | A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, and horse-drawn wagons. One ma... |
| Date: | 11 26 1953 |
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| Description: | Douglas Artley trying out a new snow shovel while sister Alice is looking on. |
| Date: | 10 01 1928 |
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| Description: | A man is standing at the front of a truck parked on a ramp. Further back on the right a group of men are working laying asphalt with large machinery. A gro... |
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| Description: | Eleven men are standing during a groundbreaking ceremony in front of a Findorff crane. Two men are holding shovels. The sign painted on the crane reads: "F... |
| Date: | 01 18 1921 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a work apron is posing in a finishing room near a workbench. There is a shovel resting in dirt in a bin next to him, and cast parts are near ... |
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| Description: | "Oh Czar, could you ever imagine this." In the palace garden, Russian prisoners digging graves for our brave soldiers who have died heroes' deaths in Russi... |
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| Description: | Austrian sailors, who have completed their service and for whom no other military need was pressing, are being sent to dig trenches. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk along Washington Street facing east. Excavation is going on between S. 8th and S. 9th Streets. A crew is mixing concrete and doing work ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Crews of the Vinton Construction Co. are laying a 20 foot wide concrete slab in front of the northeast corner of Washington and S. 9th Streets. A truck is ... |
| Date: | 04 19 1954 |
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| Description: | Rickey Holmes, David Dopkins, and Dick Quinlan digging for worms before heading to the Tenney Park lagoon to fish. Dick is using a shovel to overturn wet d... |
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| Description: | Taking precautions against cholera and dysentery on Galicia. Barracks buildings are being surrounded with trenches filled with lime. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Transporting entrenching tools through the Taurus Mountains. |
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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... |
| Date: | 03 03 1881 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of men standing on a cleared sidewalk in front of storefronts. Three men are standing on snowbanks along the curb. Several men are holding snow... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of a group of men posing near a log cabin in the woods. In the foreground is a dirt mound and a man sitting on a box. Barrels and tools are sca... |
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