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Workmen Installing Telephone Poles

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Description: Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team.
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank. Men are probably preparing the lot for the hous...
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Elevated view of team of horses powering a winch for moving a house at the rear of the Jackson County Bank.
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Team of Horses with Winch

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Description: Team of horses powering a winch for moving a house. The winch was anchored to a post in the ground, logs were then placed under the house foundation and re...
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Men Working in Quarry

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Description: View down hill into quarry with men posed working the rock face behind a bobsled pulled by a team of two horses. A man is sitting in a cutter sleigh pulled...
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Logging Camp

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Description: Group of men posed holding logging tools. They are standing and sitting in front of wooden buildings. Two men display two teams of horses. Behind the group...
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Men Posed On Logs

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Description: Elevated view of a group of men posed standing and holding logs in a river with pike hooks. There appears to be a dog on the right of the group standing on...
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York Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace.
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York Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace.
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York Iron Works

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Description: York Iron Works, with a group of men posed standing in front of the construction of the blast furnace.
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Home Construction

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Description: Men posed demolishing one house and building another on the same property, possibly the R.P. Ravey property. Two boys and a girl are posed standing in the ...
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: A group of men are operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. Three men are posing in the foreground near the tractor, and anot...
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Men Operating Farm Machinery

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Description: Men operating a steam tractor and threshing machinery near farm buildings. The negative is double exposed and shows the outline of a photographer's wagon.
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Stump Pulling

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Description: View across field towards a group of four men standing with a stump-pulling rig. Three horses on the left are pulling the tree stump.

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