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| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | View of excavation for the Lathrop residence, home of William H. Lathrop. |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
| Date: | 08 18 1926 |
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| Description: | Construction workers and early construction machinery being driven by horses in a residential neighborhood. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of west side of N. Water Street between E. Buffalo and E. Chicago Streets, featuring the Joys Building, with a contruction area in foreground... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the street and construction site outside of the Plankinton House hotel and various storefronts. Along the street and sidewalks are horse-d... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A crew of men crushing rock for Senator James H. Stout's improved highway. |
| Date: | 07 1908 |
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| Description: | Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store. A woman is walking on the street nearby, and a boy or man w... |
| Date: | 07 1908 |
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| Description: | Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store. |
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| Description: | Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background. |
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| Description: | View down Prospect Street, a dirt road, featuring the construction of a brick corner building. Two men look on from the steps of their home across the str... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men use teams of horses to excavate a lot to be used as the site for the future McCormick Twine Mill. |
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| Description: | View from what appears to be a lumber yard of men posed standing on the newly constructed Harrison Street bridge that replaced one destroyed in the flood o... |
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| Description: | New land cut out by real imaginary lines based in older spirit courses lay and bedrock, flight of birds and pointed feet |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view across street in winter of the McCormick Works Club House. In front of the club house is a man standing on a loaded horse-drawn wagon parked ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View across unpaved road toward construction workers loading a stone slab onto a horse-drawn wagon during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View from the rear of the Eau Claire Public Library during its construction. A construction worker stands at the base of a wooden support structure with a ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | A worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure is chiseling details in the capital of a Corinthian column, at left, while behind him other men are work... |
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| Description: | Elevated group portrait of men posing in front of the J.H. Findorff, Contractor, Planing Mill & Lumber Yard building. A smaller brick building on the far r... |
| Date: | 08 23 1928 |
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| Description: | View towards a truck parked near a house, with a man sitting in the driver's seat. The side yard is a construction site. A man is working in the yard among... |
| Date: | 06 24 1882 |
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| Description: | Three depictions of men laying electrical tubes in the streets of New York and testing them for insulation. Caption reads: "The Electric Light in Houses— L... |
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