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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 men unloading lumber off a raft. A man at the left is loading lumber onto a horse-drawn wagon, while a man in an apron is holding the horses... |
| Date: | 06 03 1935 |
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| Description: | Three Klein-Dickert Co. painters with two ladders are painting a house located at 2315 Rugby Row. |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of two groundskeepers preparing to water a golf course green. The men are using a 1972 Scout 4x4 pickup for transportation and hauling equ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Several people next to a building in a wooded area. Four people are pushing a large wooden bar on a piece of equipment with a rope. Perhaps they are pullin... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man mows the front lawn of a manager's home on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The house belonged to "Mr. Heath." |
| Date: | 04 15 1916 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on a residential street with a operator in the cab. Men are working in the street, and trees and power lines are l... |
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| Description: | Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of construction workers placing rebar in the foundation of a house in preparation for concrete to be poured. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men preparing to butcher sheep at the Leighton-Wyoming mining camp. A cabin is visible behind them on a hill. |
| Date: | 09 1910 |
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| Description: | Men from the Leighton-Wyoming mining operation clearing the area directly around a log cabin that is either in the process of being built or being destroye... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Rear view of three men wearing hats, and pants with suspenders, using grain cradles to harvest a field crop. Multiple buildings, including a barn, are on a... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Boatman on a river in Kashmir. In the background are other boats along a tree-lined shore. |
| Date: | 03 13 1915 |
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| Description: | Several children clearing land for a new school playground. Three boys are using axes to chop a log, and other children are gathered near the fire. Three b... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of convict laborers are wearing striped jumpsuits as they work to construct a road. Railroad tracks run through the foreground and people are stand... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Group of men and women laboring in a garden among rows of leafy vegetables. There is a farmhouse in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program." |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Migrant laborer hiring stall in a dirt parking lot next to a protruding pipe and litter on the ground. The stall is a metal frame structure with a thin ben... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of M.H. Wheeler, a lumberman from Florence, Wisconsin, with a man standing on a load of logs, holding the reins for two horses harnessed to the ... |
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