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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
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| Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Deering Works factory seen across the waterfront from Diversey Avenue. In the foreground is a street and sidewalk with the sign "horse vehicles keep to rig... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. After 1902, the factory became International Harvester's Mc... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers loading and unloading wood at the wood stock yard of the McCormick Reaper Works. Men are working on both sides of the Chicago River. Rail cars and ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue at Packers Avenue. Shows stock yards, railroad cars and automobile parking lot. Also shows C.E. & P.... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of an experimental, reversible, early Farmall (?) tractor with attached cultivator. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Man hauling barrels of water(?) in the back of an International motor truck. The truck may be a Model F or Model H. The truck appears to be pulling away fr... |
| Date: | 06 16 1963 |
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| Description: | View across parking lot towards the Kimberly-Clark Paper Company plant. |
| Date: | 09 29 1963 |
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| Description: | The Menasha Woodenware plant and water tower on Doty Island from across the Fox River canal, with a small railroad dolly in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the riverfront, railroad tracks, and river, "as viewed from Joseph McGuire's." |
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| Description: | Train station with several men, including one standing atop a large water tower. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Caption reads: "Birds Eye View, from cotton mill tower, Beaver Dam, Wis." Two churches are in the background, and there are smokestacks and a water tower n... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the plant and residential area, with smokestacks. Caption reads: "Birds-eye View of Fairbanks Morse Plant, Beloit, Wis." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of government locks and factory district on the Fox River. Caption reads: "Government Locks and Factory District, De Pere, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Northwestern Manufacturing Company plant. Caption reads: "Birds-eye View showing Northwestern Mfg. Co.'s Plant, Fort Atkinson, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hoberg Paper and Fibre Company buildings along the East River. Ice is on the river in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Northern Paper Mills' chimney, water towers, buildings, and lumber yard, seen from the Fox River. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Chimney and water towers at Northern Paper Mills, also a cargo ship called the Yorkton, which carries lumber to the paper mill. |
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