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| Description: | A man wearing safety goggles and an apron while working in a machine shop. He may be part of a safety program. |
| Date: | 1995 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd of people wearing hard hats gathered on the National Mall. They are building a huge model of the planet Earth for the 25th A... |
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| Description: | Group portrait of workers posing outside a mine, probably in Hurley, Wisconsin. Three young boys stand behind the group among stacks of logs. |
| Date: | 2013 |
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| Description: | The driver of a Harter’s Refuse truck throws a bag of trash into his truck. He is holding one trash can, and two others sit near a garage. He is wearing a ... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | The furnace of a foundry at the Geelong Works, an International Harvester plant in Australia. Six men are posing around the foundry. Original caption reads... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man is running a machine tool at a International Harvester factory in Australia. Machine name, "NATCO," is on a plate attached to the machinery. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Four shirtless soldiers strain to push a large gun over sandy terrain in Panama. Each man also wears a helmet and carries a backpack, a rifle, and a cantee... |
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| Description: | A Gisholt Machine Company factory worker, wearing protective glasses, is using a wheel to position a large cauldron for pouring molten metal into a mold to... |
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| Description: | Two employees of Gisholt Machine Company are pouring molten metal from large cauldrons into molds as another worker looks on. A company supervisor is stand... |
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| Description: | A man is welding on a large machine inside the Gisholt factory. On the right a crane is holding another section of the machine. |
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| Description: | View outdoors across yard towards two workers standing near the upper level of an industrial tower. The men are guiding a structural part in place on the t... |
| Date: | 1971 |
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| Description: | A man is bending over and standing on a flat metal rail over a vat of water. The man is wearing a dust mask over his face, and is holding two screens dyed ... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | The description on the reverse of the print reads: "Commercial fishermen hauling in their net and immediately packing the small silvery smelt into boxes fo... |
| Date: | 06 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man, on the left, approaching three youths working on the Thunder River. One of the youths is holding a bucket while the others, standin... |
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| Description: | View of two workers pouring molten metal on the floor of the Gisholt plant. There are two massive chain hoists, suspended from a bridge crane, that are hol... |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in a blacksmith shop. One man is working at an anvil, the other stands with his hands on his hips. They are wearing leather aprons. Hu... |
| Date: | 10 20 1951 |
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| Description: | A man at the forge in Albert Smith's blacksmith shop. On the right is an Aetna No. 25 stove. Tools are hanging on the edge of the forge. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A woman and a man are working on a road construction crew, with a dump truck full of sand behind them. They are wearing work clothes and hard hats. In the ... |
| Date: | 1977 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of women who are working processing corn on a canning assembly line at the Fall River Canning Company. They are wearing aprons and g... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | A railroad worker cleans snow out of a railroad track switch with a broom. He is dressed warmly with a hard hat. |
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