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McCormick Reaper Works Factory and Rail Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood.
Photograph

Fox River Lock Tender

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ...
Photograph

North Vietnamese Irrigation

Date: 1967
Description: Canal in a hamlet near Phat Diem, described by photographer David Schoenbrun as part of an extensive system of irrigation. On a path along the canal a man ...
Photograph

Dorothy Schoenbrun

Date: 1967
Description: Villagers near Phat Diem gathered to watch American Dorothy Schoenbrun sketching near an irrigation canal. Mrs. Schoenbrun was accompanying her husband, jo...
Photograph

Widening Irrigation Canal

Date: 1962
Description: Three farmers remove large chunks of earth from the side of an irrigation canal in Vietnam to widen it. One man stands with a tool on the bank to dislodge ...
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Map Exhibiting Routes by Which the Navigation of the Mississippi River May be Connected with the Navigation of the Lakes

Date: 1839
Description: This map, one of a series made by Thomas Jefferson Cram of the U.S. Topographical Engineers from personal surveys, covers the area from Green Bay to the ju...

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