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| Description: | The exterior of a brick building, most likely a recently built school. Workers are near the building planting and working the soil around the base of the b... |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men load logs from a clearing onto the bed of an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special truck owned by the Johnson-Manville Corporation. The truck had a 1... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men carry fiber on their shoulders onto a wooden wharf. The fiber, probably from manila plants, is also piled near a building in the background. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Men and one woman gathered around machinery in a cutover area of northern Wisconsin preparing to undertake an unknown task. |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Gift cows at the U.S. Marine Helicopter base in Soc Trang, Vietnam. Military and civilian men stand posing in a group in a field. Two of the men hold the r... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | International D-2 truck used by the Home and Telegraph Company. A man on a telephone pole is dressed in a suit and tie. The D-2 truck had a 113-inch wheel ... |
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| Description: | A river navigation light on the Mississippi River. People were paid to keep them lit so the steam boats could operate at night. Bearded man sitting at bas... |
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| Description: | View from grassy field of a field of crops on a low slope. The crops are supported by wire or rope attached to posts at the end of each row. There are work... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | Soldiers working on slit trench in the rain on Kiriwina Island in the Solomon Sea, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). They all hail from Michigan. ... |
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| Description: | View of the steamboat Mendota under construction. A number of men, and one young child, are standing and posing with the boat. In the background is ... |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards a group of men standing near and on a rock face an a cliff above a river. Identified as probably the quarry connected t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | From Carrie's journal from Palestine: "There were many terraced hills, covered with olive orchards. Men, women and children were gathering the olives, clim... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across field towards men loading bundles of hemp onto railroad transport cars. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man and a young boy outdoors cutting manila plants. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, one in the driver's seat of the D-300 M.T. truck, and the other carrying a metal trash bin, on a residential street. The truck is used by the Refu... |
| Date: | 04 1938 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the state nursery showing fields, an above ground irrigation system, and blocks of plantings. There are men working in a field on the righ... |
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