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Hoisting Machine Loading Pilings on Barge at Prairie du Sac Dam Site

Date: 03 1911
Description: Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance.
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Erecting Gate Guides in Power House at Power Dam

Date: 11 02 1912
Description: Workmen using a crane to erect the gate guides for the power house.
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Crane Hoisting Gravel into Concrete Mixer

Date: 05 31 1912
Description: Workers maneuvering a load of gravel into a concrete mixer at the plant on the east bank of the river. The east abutment is in the foreground, left.
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International Model A-8 Truck

Date: 12 22 1937
Description: View from side of road of an International Model A-8 truck marked "C.P. Ward, Inc." hauling a trailer with a large crane. One man is driving the truck, ano...
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Truck with Logging Trailer

Date: 1947
Description: Men using a crane to load logs onto the trailer of an International W-6564-OH truck. A man is swinging from the crane's cable over the logs on the truck. A...
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Men at Pit Silo Construction Site

Date: 1915
Description: Men loading dirt into a wagon while digging for a new pit silo using a derrick. Two women are standing in the background.
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Transporting Cranberries

Date: 1978
Description: Barges of cranberries being lifted from the marsh and loaded into the back of a truck for transport. Two men stand in a bog near more barges filled with cr...
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Workers and Crane at a Limestone Quarry

Date: 1976
Description: Two workers and a large yellow crane at a limestone quarry. There are large blocks of roughly cut limestone, and numerous trees are in the background. The ...
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Workers in Stone Quarry

Date: 1976
Description: Color photo of workers cutting blocks of limestone in a quarry. There are what appear to be moveable platforms on tracks at the bottom of the face of the a...
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Florence Mine

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Description: Stereograph of an elevated view of a mining operation. Men are posing on the head frame/gallows frame over the pit. One man is perching on the top of the g...

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