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Worksheds at Walden

Date: 1941
Description: Worksheds filled with stacked logs and wagons at "Walden", the estate of Cyrus McCormick, Jr.
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Ellefson Lumber Company

Date: 05 16 1929
Description: Ellefson Lumber Co. store and supply building, located at 2016 Winnebago Street.
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Texaco Bulk Station

Date: 07 11 1930
Description: View of a Texaco bulk station and storage tanks from across the railroad tracks at 919 E. Main Street.
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Construction of Pyrofax Plant

Date: 10 09 1929
Description: A Chicago & North Western Railroad Bucyrus crane installing a large tank at a Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Company Pyrofax plant, at 130 Fair Oaks Avenue.
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Capitol Oil Company

Date: 04 03 1929
Description: A railroad tanker car is sitting on tracks next to fuel storage tanks at the Capitol Oil Company, 919 East Main Street.
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F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Plant Yard

Date: 1903
Description: Several buildings in the complex of the F.G. and C.A. Stanley Manufacturing Plant. The largest building is labeled "F.G. and C.A. Stanley." A smaller build...
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Rocket Oil Company Fuel Storage Tanks

Date: 10 10 1946
Description: Rocket Oil Company fuel storage tanks at the bulk plant at 204 South Paterson Street. In the foreground is a man on a modern Rocket Oil company truck fill...
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Lumberyard at Chatham Works

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of the lumberyard at International Harvester's Chatham Works in Canada. Railroad tracks are leading to the storage facilities are in the fore...
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St. Paul Flax Twine Mill

Date: 1906
Description: Men unloading flax straw from railroad cars in front of Storage Building No. 3 at International Harvester's St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill.
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Lumber Storage Yard

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view from three monorail hoist crane tracks at the Pacific Lumber Co. lumber storage yard. Three smokestacks are in the background.
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P&H 3-Ton Monorail Hoist in Lumber Storage Racks

Date: 1911
Description: A Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist in lumber storage racks. There's a man in the cab, and another man standing at the bottom of one of the stac...
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P&H 3-Ton Monorail Hoist Lowering Lumber

Date: 1912
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist crane with lumber unit lowering its load at American Lumberman. There is an operator in the cab, and men on th...
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P&H 3-Ton Monorail Hoist

Date: 1912
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist with lumber handling unit operated by a man. There is a small shed in the background. The I-beam is stamped "P...
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P&H Exterior Type "AN" Hoist with Grab Bucket

Date: 1914
Description: A Pawling & Harnischfeger type "AN" hoist with a grab bucket and an enclosed trolley over railroad tracks with a train car underneath it. The crane is stam...
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P&H Monorail Hoist with Lumber Handling Unit

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Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist with lumber unit. The sign on the cab reads "Pawling & Harnischfeger Co., Milwaukee, Wis." and there is a man in the...
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MEC&MC Gantry Crane with Dual Hooks

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Description: A Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane with dual hooks, one standard, and the other a magnetic unit, used for unloading train cars...
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Railroad Yard

Date: 05 18 1963
Description: View across a railroad yard with several railroad cars and four storage tanks in the background.
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Storage Tanks

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Description: Five large cylindrical tanks. Trees and an industrial metal building are in the background.
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Nutrena Feeds Factory

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Description: Elevated view over a freight train of the Nutrena Feeds factory.
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Packaging Onions

Date: 1965
Description: Farmers package onions for shipping. Two women and a man pack and sew closed mesh bags of onions. Another man hoists full bags onto a conveyor belt, while ...

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