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Tunnel at Tunnel City

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Description: View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City.
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Men on Horseback

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Description: Men or cowboys on horseback at the Indian Warm Springs Agency.
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Big Horn Ditch Head Gate

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Description: The head gate at the Big Horn Ditch on the Crow Reservation in northeast Wyoming. Men are working with cranes near a tent with a chimney spewing out smoke.
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Portrait of Photographer Matthew Witt

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Description: Casual portrait of photographer Matthew Witt seated at the foot of a ridge. It's likely that the image is a self-portrait produced by Witt himself.
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Clam Camp

Date: 1888
Description: Elevated view of clam camp with tents, clam shell debris, and wooden buildings. A bluff rises up behind the buildings.
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Clamming Boats

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Description: View from water of clamming boats near shoreline.
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CCC Workers at Devil's Lake Rock Formation

Date: 1935
Description: Devil's Lake State Park Civilian Conservation Corps workers posed at rock formation, possibly Devil's Doorway.
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Railroad Employees Posed on Donkeys

Date: 1906
Description: Employees of the Milwaukee Road at Happy Hollow. Left to right: engineers Fred Brown, John J. Rigney, William Wall, William H. Fetherston, and conductors J...
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Lumbermen Descending Rapids

Date: 1900
Description: Lumbermen in a bateau descending rapids in an unidentified northern or north-central Wisconsin river.
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Steam Drill

Date: 1910
Description: Steam drill at work in quarry at Montello Granite Co. A man is standing on the right operating the drill. There are ladders against the stone cliff in the ...

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