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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Soldiers and civilians carrying supplies for repairing bad roads in enemy territory during World War I. |
| Date: | 04 24 1936 |
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| Description: | Men are working on a project at the State Fish Hatchery. There is new concrete lining a raceway in the foreground, where a man is working on the floor. Woo... |
| Date: | 06 19 1936 |
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| Description: | One man is working on a ladder near the side door of a one and one half story, masonry block building with five garage bays. There are two men on the right... |
| Date: | 06 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man, on the left, approaching three youths working on the Thunder River. One of the youths is holding a bucket while the others, standin... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | One man is sighting a transit level, and another man is holding a round metal post as a crew of six people "sets a corner" in a Jackson County forest. Ther... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A large crew of men are bending to their work of planting seedling trees into furrows. Each man is carrying a spade-like tool with a long handle, and a box... |
| 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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