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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: | Three construction workers, two in the hole, and one above, digging at the World Trade Center construction site. |
| Date: | 11 06 1948 |
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| Description: | Blooming Grove neighbors of John Speranza digging a basement for a new Speranza shop which will replace the one lost to a fire that also destroyed the Sper... |
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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: | 1915 |
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| Description: | One man is using a hand crank to pull a bucket of earth from the bottom of a pit silo. Another man stands behind him. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hardhat stands on scaffolding at the stern of a ship under construction. Beams and other shipbuilding material can be seen scattered around... |
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| Description: | Two men stand on scaffolding as they work on the construction of the bow of a ship. Another man stands on the ground nearby. A crane is visible in the back... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers during construction of a paper mill. |
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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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Men drive an International truck up a dirt road along the Colorado River during the construction of the Hoover Dam in Black Canyon. There is a steam, or po... |
| 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: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for International trucks featuring a color illustration of men working with an excavator and an International dump truck on the Alcan Highway... |
| 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... |
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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 wagon is being raised or lowered at a construction site. The wagon has chains looped around the axle of each wheel as a man below signals directions. He ... |
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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... |
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