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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline over canal towards McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of McCormick Works. In the foreground are powerlines, and beyond are railroad tracks and a locomotive pulling railroad cars. Near the factory... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of McCormick Works. Advertisement are painted on the sides of a building on the left, and on the bottom left are billboards. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of McCormick Works, with construction of wheel shop. Streetcars are along the street in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over canal of docks and ships at the dock. In the background are railroad cars on a railroad track, factory buildings, and smokestacks. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Panoramic elevated view of railroad shipping area near factory buildings, a water tower, and a smokestack. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Detailed drawing of an elevated view of the building layout at Whitman & Barnes Mfg. Co. in West Pullman, Chicago, Illinois. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from the Wisconsin State Capitol of the old water tower, and an expansive view of the city with church steeples, houses, commercial buildings... |
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| Description: | View of a man standing in a field holding a sheaf of grain. In the background is a water tower near a building and a smokestack. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across empty field towards railroad tracks. In the far background is a water tower next to a power plant. |
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| Description: | View over chain link fence towards a train on the railroad tracks near a power plant and water tower. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a paper factory beside a railroad track. Caption reads: "Hoberg Paper and Fibre Division, Green Bay, Wis." |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | View of the Northern Paper Mill on the banks of the Fox River. Caption reads: "Northern Paper Mills, Green Bay, 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: | 1930 |
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| Description: | An elevated view of downtown Milwaukee, with Lake Michigan in the background. The eight story 1920 addition to the Boston Store is in the foreground, ident... |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of Kaukauna. There is a water tower in the center, a church on the left, and a smokestack on the right, and the F... |
| 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: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | View across field towards a bus sitting in the driveway in front of a large factory complex, which has a water tower and three smokestacks. "Airport 2 Mi."... |
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