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| Date: | 08 1929 |
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| Description: | Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue. Men are pouring a cement floor. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers with hard hats at the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men work to level the ground for foundations to be poured for homes. Exposed brick walls of partially constructed homes are on the left and right, and a di... |
| Date: | 07 21 1942 |
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| Description: | Men pouring and smoothing cement on the construction site of the Ordnance Steel Foundry Company. The Foundry may have served as part of International Harve... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A man is standing at the back of an International truck holding a small chest or case. Behind him a group of construction workers are working near the scaf... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A man standing near the bed of an International Model M truck at a construction site. Behind him a group of construction workers are working near scaffoldi... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man spreading cement on the wall of a silo. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction site surrounded by buildings in what appears to be an industrial area. A sign on the building on the left side of reads: "W... |
| Date: | 03 17 1925 |
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| Description: | An International Model 43 truck owned by Whitmier & Ferris Company parked along the bank of a river where men are constructing the framework to a billboard... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers during construction of a paper mill. |
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| Description: | Construction workers on the job, with horse-drawn wagons in the background. |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of workers building the new Episcopal Church. Workers in hats and overalls, and holding shovels, are standing among scaffolding,... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Construction crew and observers standing on a scaffold. Trees, a wooden tripod with a block and tackle and the roof of a house are visible in the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Several men are standing around a construction site at International Harvester's Osborne Works. There are wheelbarrows filled with building materials and s... |
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| Description: | Four men in the foreground are posing standing with shovels in a large hole in the ground. In the background behind a wall, men are working near cars along... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Russians erecting new wireless radio poles near a town. In the background are a number of large buildings behind a wooden fence. On the ground are barrels ... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Construction workers are laying stone on the facade of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Grand Avenue. One man is standing on the first f... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Construction workers are lifting a piece into place using a wooden structure supporting a winch and pulley set up near the facade of the Eau Claire Public ... |
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