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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: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Man in work clothes holding a shovel loaded with dirt while another man watches in the background. The men were Civilian Conservation Corps workers at Devi... |
| 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: | Five boys stand on the sidewalk holding their shoe shining tools and supplies. They are wearing work clothes; shirts, knickers, stockings, shoes and caps. ... |
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| Description: | Men at a railroad station awaiting the arrival of a train in Fremont (later Pray). There is snow on the ground. Two men are standing on a hand-powered rail... |
| Date: | 03 1979 |
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| Description: | "Mason, Reuben Schuster, lays brick on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney." |
| Date: | 1979 |
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| Description: | During an energy tour of his district Congressman Obey visited various sites to observe projects to increase energy efficiency. Here a workman is preparing... |
| 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: | 10 19 1898 |
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| Description: | Front cover, first illustration, and menu page for the "National Peace Jubilee Banquet tendered to The President of the United States and distinguished gue... |
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| Description: | Group of men posing in two rows in a field. The men sitting and crouching in the front row are wearing folded down rubber boots. The men standing behind th... |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Traffic to the J. Ohlenforst Bakery at 529 S. Sixth Street, in the Walker's Point neighborhood, is impeded by street construction. There are piles of grave... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Lithograph of the Empire Mower and Reaper; several other reaper manufacturers and models are identified in the illustration which appears above the text: “... |
| 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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| Description: | A State Office Building construction site, downtown, with a view of the Wisconsin State Capitol. Two men on the right are working with boards on sawhorses.... |
| Date: | 05 15 1914 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men in and around a trench at a construction site. There is a retaining wall above the trench on the hill on the right. Another f... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A woman and a man are working on a road construction crew, with a dump truck full of sand behind them. They are wearing work clothes and hard hats. In the ... |
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