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| Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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| Description: | A group of men line up for their pay at an armored International Model 63 truck used by the City of New York Department of Finance. The truck is guarded by... |
| 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: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from water of Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends ove... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company single leg gantry crane handling steel at the Racor Pacific Frog and Switch Works. There are a couple of m... |
| Date: | 12 16 1936 |
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| Description: | A man places a bag onto the bed of an International C-1 truck owned by the Chicago Rock Island Railroad. The truck is marked with the text "No.9" and "Wate... |
| Date: | 02 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Striking workers near a railroad crossing march in a circle holding handmade signs. |
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| Description: | View across water of the dredge "Winneconne" on the Fox River canal. Although undated the photograph was probably taken during the 1940s. The "Winneconne"... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The Municipal Light and Power Plant and water tower seen from across a pond. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | View down middle of two railroad tracks towards the railroad depot. Freight cars are on another set of railroad tracks on the left, and in the far backgrou... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of a railroad roundhouse, with railroad tracks and piles of gravel in the foreground. A man is working near a woodpile at the corner of the ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from roof of railroad tracks and stacks of lumber in a yard near a factory. Two men are working in the yard in the background on the right. T... |
| Date: | 03 26 1925 |
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| Description: | View from across street of the IH Printing Plant. A man is standing near a truck parked at the loading dock on the left. |
| 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: "TD-18A — Land Clearing." Where Taken: "MidW" Information with photograph reads: "Owned by Michigan Consolidated Gas Co., Big Rapids, Mich. Used w... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View from the Oconto River of the Holt Lumber Company. A man is standing on a log boom and guiding logs to the sawmill. Writing on the postcard reads: "Hol... |
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