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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
Photograph

Photographer Setting Up Outdoor View of IHC McCormick Works

Date: 08 06 1914
Description: Rear view of company photographer setting up shot of IHC's McCormick Works docks from across the waterfront. Two men are in a long wooden boat, with the na...
Photograph

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.
Magazine or Periodical

Harper's Weekly Canal Drawing

Date: 08 02 1862
Description: Engraved view of several men in a long trench digging Grant's canal on the Mississippi River opposite Vicksburg.
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

Dredging Barge

Date: 
Description: View from shoreline of a dredging barge on a canal. Several large rocks are scattered in the foreground.
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works Factory

Date: 1900
Description: View across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works factory, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. Men in the foreground are stacking piles of lumber. After 19...
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 ...
Drawing

Process of Excavation, Lockport

Date: 1825
Description: Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 2

Date: 1892
Description: Second page of calendar for March and April, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one is of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting ...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 3

Date: 1892
Description: Third page of calendar for May and June, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvesting machine...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 5

Date: 1892
Description: Fifth page of calendar for September and October, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvestin...
Print

Mv. Saturnia Farewell Dinner Menu

Date: 03 24 1950
Description: Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with two Commedia dell' Arte characters: Pantalone, a black masked figure...
Photograph

Steam Dredge at the Hatfield Dam Construction Site

Date: 1907
Description: A steam dredge at the construction site of a dam on a river. Identified as the construction of a canal at the Hatfield dam construction in 1907.
Photograph

Hatfield Canal Construction

Date: 
Description: View of a horse hauling dirt on a wagon on tracks. There are five workmen adding dirt to the wagon from a large pile. Identified as part of the Hatfield Ca...
Map or Atlas

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...
Photograph

TD-24 — Pipe Lines

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "TD-24 — Pipe Lines." Where Taken: "SW." Information with photograph reads: "TD-24 superior pipe boom owned by H.C. Price Company, Bartlesville, O...
Photograph

Locomotive and Steam Shovel

Date: 03 1913
Description: An elevated view of a steam locomotive and rail mounted steam shovel, probably in the Culebra Cut, during construction of the Panama Canal. Men are seen on...

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