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| Date: | 05 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men pressing garments at Savidusky's Cleaners plant, 827 E. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Men working around an International pickup truck parked at a construction site. The truck, possibly a B-120 or B-130, was owned by Carson Contractors. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga... |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | A gasoline-powered launch tows a barge loaded with log pilings on the Wisconsin River to the Prairie du Sac dam site. Workmen drive the launch and guide th... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | An International Harvester Model G-61 truck owned by the One Minute Manufacturing Co. carrying a shipment of One Minute Washers. The truck is parked in an ... |
| Date: | 07 18 1913 |
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| Description: | Workers and a boy, Edgar Walch, posing on and around a steam shovel in the quarry at Eagle View Bluff. Edgar's father, Engelbert Walch, owned the steam sho... |
| Date: | 09 01 1913 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the power house from the southwest showing progress of the brickwork. Two railroad cars are standing on the railroad extension. Workers ar... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A crew of men laying sewer pipe with a Hough payloader. Original caption states: "Hough Payloader laying sewer pipe sections weighing 200 lbs each. Equipme... |
| 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: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A uniformed man in an indoor garage or warehouse is using a power washer to clean a truck trailer emblazoned with the Smucker's logo. |
| Date: | 02 15 1951 |
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| Description: | Milton Kneebone, a member of the city street-marking crew, spray-paints street name signs. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of men posing standing near and on a rock face with shovels and pickaxes. Behind them are shrubs and trees on a hill, with a power line at t... |
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| Description: | A large group of ice cutters posing for a portrait. They are holding a variety of implements and are sitting and standing on blocks of ice. Fence and build... |
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| Description: | Exterior portrait of men chopping wood on a snow covered-ground with several town structures in the background. The small building in the center was the po... |
| Date: | 08 24 1928 |
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| Description: | Four men are loading bricks onto the back of a truck. A man is sitting in the passenger seat of the cab. The sign on the passenger door reads: "Acme Brick ... |
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