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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b... |
| Date: | 03 29 1919 |
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| Description: | Men building a dock along railroad tracks. The tracks run along a stream or small river. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
| 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: | 01 19 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men standing next to mining cars near the opening of the Beam & Merritt mine as an International PA-50 power unit is installed. |
| Date: | 08 29 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers pose at the entrance of the old bridge. There are railroad tracks in the foreground with signs that read, "free bridge," "men working," and "cautio... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across the bottom of a quarry toward a group of men posing around a horse who appears to be pulling an open railroad car on railroad tracks. Steep cli... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down two sets of railroad tracks. There is an empty cart on the left set of tracks, and one cart full of large pieces of stone on the right set of tra... |
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