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| Date: | 04 13 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen operating a steam shovel loading gravel into electric rail cars during construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 08 16 1926 |
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| Description: | Men loading an International Model 63 truck with a steam shovel, or crane. The truck is operated by the Plack Transfer Company. The truck has been rigged w... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a steam shovel filling the back of an International truck with dirt at an airport construction site. |
| Date: | 07 11 1926 |
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| Description: | A shovel, or excavator loads dirt into an International Model S truck. The text on the wooden cab of the shovel appears to read: "Marion Shovel - Model 21"... |
| Date: | 11 23 1948 |
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| Description: | This ceremony at Truax Field signaled the start of construction of the 120-unit apartment project for war veterans by the Madison Housing Authority. Henry ... |
| Date: | 02 16 1931 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Co. conveyor belt loading gravel into hopper which is filling a C.E. & P.A. Roth truck at their gravel pit, 1910 Roth Street ne... |
| Date: | 04 05 1927 |
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| Description: | Men stand near an excavator or steam shovel as it loads an International dump truck at a construction site. The site is surrounded with multi-storied build... |
| Date: | 10 19 1925 |
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| Description: | A workman smokes a cigarette in the foreground as a steam shovel loads iron ore at the Cahoon Mine. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of several teams of work horses pulling Old Dominion wagons loaded with dirt at a rural construction site. There is a steam shovel working at... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men drive an International truck up a dirt road along the Colorado River during the construction of the Hoover Dam in Black Canyon. There is a steam, or po... |
| Date: | 04 24 1957 |
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| Description: | Bulldozers and steam shovels prepare the site for the future University of Wisconsin Observatory site near Pine Bluff. |
| Date: | 01 08 1959 |
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| Description: | Work on the new Tenney Park lock and dam is progressing on schedule. A temporary spillway (not shown) has been built to divert the Yahara River from the co... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View towards a steam shovel working on a hill by a railway and water tank. Location identified as the cutting down of German Hill for fill to reconstruct t... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View looking down at men standing with trucks near a steam shovel working near a rock face. |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View along street towards pedestrians on the left. On the right, below street level, are construction workers standing below street level near trucks and a... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down at men driving dump trucks and operating a steam shovel and a crane below ground level at a construction site. On the opposite s... |
| Date: | 08 19 1925 |
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| Description: | View of rubble along an exposed rock face. Construction equipment is in the far distance. |
| Date: | 07 25 1927 |
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| Description: | Men driving tractors pulling trailers, which are being loaded from a hopper at a granite quarry or mine. On the far right is a steam shovel. |
| Date: | 06 02 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working outdoors in a rocky area, perhaps a quarry. One man is operating a steam shovel. |
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