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P&H Type "O" Bridge with a Type "G" Trolley

Date: 04 18 1913
Description: View near crane operator looking down on coal car near exterior of building. Pawling & Harnischfeger type "O" bridge crane with a type "G" trolley in a fou...
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Female Auto Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I.
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Arrival of the "Spirit of St. Louis"

Date: 1928
Description: The landing of the "Spirit of St. Louis," carrying Charles Lindbergh.
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Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
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Paving Block Cutters

Date: 1910
Description: Paving block cutters at work at the the Montello Granite Company. Two men holding large hammers are posing underneath a tarp which is shading large pieces ...
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Open Hearth Lead Furnace

Date: 1872
Description: Galena (lead sulfide) was melted at this open hearth furnace owned by Richard Straw and Company on the Roundtree Branch of the Little Platte River. The men...
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First to Fly — Almost Flying

Date: 1901
Description: Wilbur Wright (standing, second from the right) with Edward C. Huffaker, Octave Chanute, and George Spratt in the workshed. Chanute was a special visitor f...
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Penisular Power Company

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Description: Panoramic group portrait of workers, who are building the Penisular Power Company, located on the Brule River.
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Milwaukee Railroad Employees

Date: 07 21 1884
Description: Group portrait of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway employees taken outside the railroad's Milwaukee shop. Most of the men appear to be blue collar wor...
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Waukesha Scoot

Date: 1894
Description: View across railroad tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway engine #212, also known as the Waukesha Scoot, at Milwaukee's Union Depot.
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Railroad Repair Work

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Description: Group of men repairing railroad track near Racine.
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Montello Granite Company at Noon

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Description: View of workers from the Montello Granite Company heading down the street to lunch after the noon whistle.
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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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De Pere Lock on Fox River

Date: 1897
Description: De Pere lock on the Fox River with a construction crew at work. This is the only wooden lock on the Fox River.
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Loading Milk Cans

Date: 1937
Description: A man unloads milk cans from a Ford Model T pickup truck at a creamery receiving station.
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Vesper Wood Company

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Description: Vesper Wood Manufacturing Company. Caption reads: "Vesper, Wis."
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Sorting Onions

Date: 1972
Description: Slightly elevated view of two women, members of Amalgamated Meatcutters local P78, inspecting onions, probably at a warehouse in California.
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Loading Melons

Date: 1972
Description: An unidentified worker, probably in California, loading crates of melons onto a refrigerated railroad car.
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Allis Reliance Works

Date: 05 04 1886
Description: Lumber yard with boxcars and factory buildings in the back. Made while factory was under protection of the State Militia during the first general labor str...
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Interior of a Cider Mill

Date: 1879
Description: Drawing of a girl sitting on a barrel as a man dumps apples into a press to make cider. Two men manually operate the press at the left.

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