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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | In her journal from Japan and South Korea, Carrie describes the process of preparing cotton to be used for yarn or clothing. This image shows three women w... |
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| Description: | View towards a boy raking in a yard. There is a fence and a building on the right. |
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| Description: | Interior view of Gisholt Machine Company. A man is standing on metal parts and pouring, what is probably molten metal, from a vat into a mold or industrial... |
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| Description: | A Gisholt Machine Company factory worker, wearing protective glasses, is using a wheel to position a large cauldron for pouring molten metal into a mold to... |
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| Description: | Two employees of Gisholt Machine Company are pouring molten metal from large cauldrons into molds as another worker looks on. A company supervisor is stand... |
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| Description: | A window washer named Art holding a cigarette and posing with his squeegee. He was a familiar sight on State Street. |
| Date: | 08 1911 |
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| Description: | The Gang split wood for the cooking fire at their camp by Sturgeon Lake. |
| Date: | 1839 |
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| Description: | Cut-away lithography illustration of a mining operation, showing men lowering a miner into a mine where several other men are working. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Photographic print of an ink drawing of James "John" Adams Riley aka Snowball. He is pictured wearing a striped coverall and billed cap. Gloves and window ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The description on the reverse of the print reads: "Commercial fishermen hauling in their net and immediately packing the small silvery smelt into boxes fo... |
| Date: | 04 24 1936 |
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| Description: | Men are working on a project at the State Fish Hatchery. There is new concrete lining a raceway in the foreground, where a man is working on the floor. Woo... |
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| Description: | Construction site showing men excavating the foundation and basement of a building. Teams of horses are hitched to wagons. The men are using various implem... |
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| Description: | A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, and horse-drawn wagons. One ma... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh... |
| Date: | 10 30 1958 |
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| Description: | Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz... |
| Date: | 10 20 1951 |
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| Description: | A man at the forge in Albert Smith's blacksmith shop. On the right is an Aetna No. 25 stove. Tools are hanging on the edge of the forge. |
| 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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