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| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 04 05 1919 |
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| Description: | Men working on a hillside retaining wall to "P tipple" of no. 2 mine. Railroad tracks and houses are below in the distance. Benham was a "company town" cre... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A workman grinds a cylinder head at Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company, 754 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 13 1931 |
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| Description: | Greg Kabat, University of Wisconsin football player, shovels dirt from the back of a truck at Camp Randall. |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Poling ice blocks to the hoist on the Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A worker operates a large machine at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Three men cutting points on logs for fence posts. |
| Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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| Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pack an International M-5-6 truck into a crate, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption reads: "The trucks ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers packing International M-5-6 trucks into crates, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption reads: "The trucks ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. A set sc... |
| Date: | 04 1966 |
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| Description: | Driver Roman (Bud) J. Engels tightens the cable holding logs together on International 8066 Heavy Equipment Transporter (HET) used for logging. |
| Date: | 01 13 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men loading pole supports into the back of an International truck owned by the Puget Sound Power and Light Company. In the foreground are railroad tr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working in the metal finishing room of the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Metal parts are stacked on the floor and the room is suppor... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the machine shop at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Woodcut illustration of four men working with pick-axes and sledge hammers. |
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