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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Factory workers on a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Behind the men are shelves filled with small m... |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Man, possibly William E. Bahn, boarding International Metro truck. |
| Date: | 05 28 1943 |
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| Description: | Man and two women receiving tools at tool crib. A woman is sitting inside the window of the tool crib. Also pictured are timecards, and a "Canteen" vending... |
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| Description: | Railroad workers pose near train engines lined up in a wooden roundhouse garage facility. The number on the train in the foreground is "1252." |
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| Description: | View of old man making baskets and an old woman sewing outside of a log cabin. Other handmade wooden items appear throughout the image and tools hang on th... |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. Elevated view of a man working with a hand jig. Caption reads:... |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A group of young men are shown mining underground. Caption rea... |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A jig room is shown with a miner. Caption reads: "Typical Jig-... |
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| Description: | Webb City was known as the world's largest and most productive lead and zinc mining field in the late 1800s and early 1900s and was part of the "Tri-State ... |
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| Description: | Avery Island is home to the oldest salt mine in North America. A view of men working in the mines is shown. Caption reads: "Drilling Salt - Avery's Salt M... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A shoemaker in striped work jacket and a tie works on a machine in his shop. |
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| Description: | A man stands on a very large tree stump with his arms crossed over his chest. At his feet, crossed, are two axes. In the background, as a contrast, are thi... |
| Date: | 11 27 1951 |
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| Description: | Constructive Workshops for Older Adults, created by the Vocational School, offers many leisure time activities for newly retired men and women. Arlene Find... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Group of men on and near a horse-drawn wagon on the side of a road. The wagon is loaded with tools and hardware. Four of the men wear tool belts. |
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| Description: | A quarry of Alaska Marble Company at Calder, with men at work. Photograph published by Winter and Pond Company. Caption reads: "Marble Quarry, Calder, Ala... |
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| Description: | Men work with the coke ovens at the coal mine. Caption reads: "Coke Manufacturing Scene, Near Bluefield, West Virginia." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a man's arm using a wrench to make adjustments to a P&O tractor plow hitched to a tractor. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two men standing near the open doorway of a shed while using a hand-operated knife grinder to sharpen a sickle bar or blade. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Three men working at a site for a new pit silo on an International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a cap and overalls holding a burlap feed bag while standing near feed bins in the poultry house of Professor Holden. Tools are hanging from n... |
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