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| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Loggers posing on narrow-gauge railroad tracks with a railroad velocipede and cant hook near Saddle Mound, a large hill that dominates the local area in Ja... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of three raftsmen standing in the river, probably on a sandbar, using wooden poles to hold or push against the rafts. |
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| Description: | Woman pumping water from a well near the porch of her farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine. |
| Date: | 06 1923 |
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| Description: | Woman chopping wood on the farm of E.A. Bancroft. |
| Date: | 04 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging an intermediate bin for mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel C... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of five men standing on a log and a plank of wood while another man is chopping at the log with an axe. |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | A group of loggers at work in the woods with horses and a team of oxen. The men are cutting down fir trees to eventually be sold at market. |
| Date: | 04 1966 |
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| Description: | Roman (Bud) J. Engels strips off last wrapper chain from International 8066 Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET). |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a walkway on top of a mechanical conveyor belt machine in a quarry, loading a truck with sand and gravel. A man with a shovel is stand... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men working at tables in the metal finishing room of the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Stacks of parts are piled on the floor, and a hat and coat are han... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across foundry floor of factory workers in a large room with high ceilings, vent hoods and skylights at McCormick Works. Two men in the middle ground ... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the machine shop at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | Mill workers in the yard at Ramsay & Jones Mill. |
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| Description: | A boy (teenager?) works in a sheet metal factory. |
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| Description: | Several men dip pitchers and pails to apply metal at Vollrath Company. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of miners posing by #1 shaft just north of "G" Pabst. The man on the far left is Joe Iafolla. |
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