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| Description: | Elevated view of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad stockyards, at about 25th Street. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of rows of finished tractors cover a yard outside Milwaukee Works. On the left is a water tower, and in the foreground are railroad tracks wi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men place a bale of cotton on top of a pile on the back of a mule-drawn wagon. They are near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr... |
| Date: | 04 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Workers from the Tunnicliff Construction Company build a temporary office building at International Harvester's Bettendorf Tank Arsenal. On the right a par... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the mills' sprawling building complex. Caption reads: "Middleburg Cotton Mills, Batesburg, S.C." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Thousands of bales of cotton with a water tower and a building with smokestacks in the background. Caption reads: "Ada Compress, 10,000 Bales Cotton In Sig... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Rows of Farmall tractors stand outside International Harvester's Farmall Works. The factory site includes Industrial buildings and a water tower. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | "The long lens captures the Baker Canning smokestacks, and water tower, on film." |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks, showing the switching station, water tank, and buildings. Two men stand on the railroad tracks. Ester Point is near Cassville, W... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View along railroad tracks towards the Rewey railroad station. A locomotive spewing smoke into the air is approaching the depot, and passengers are standin... |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of residential homes, farmland and streets. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View from hill looking down across fields at the property of Charles Grignon. Grignon Mansion in the background among trees, and beyond is the Fox River. O... |
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| Description: | View across field towards a cheese factory and a water tower. Caption reads: "Wisconsin Butter & Cheese Co., Elkhorn, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of the mill just beyond railroad tracks, with smokestacks and a water tower. Caption reads: "Fibre Mills, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Aspen logs are stacked in rows in front of the buildings of the American Excelsior Company. There are large frame buildings on the left, and a water tower ... |
| Date: | 06 05 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a Gillespie Grain Co. Ltd. truck, with an open truck bed loaded with sacks of oats. In the background is... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of man driving TD-9. Subject: "TD-9 — Road Building." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Mason Brod., Houston, T... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Subject: "UD-18A — Irrigation." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Delta Securities Co., Inc., Raceland, La. Used with Worthin... |
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