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| Date: | 03 01 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 07 16 1912 |
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| Description: | Workers posing inside the coffer dam. The narrow gauge railroad is behind them. One of the pile drivers is in the background. A bare area on the bluff in t... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace. |
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| Description: | Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace. |
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| Description: | View from railroad tracks towards industrial activity on the edge of the river, possibly building a dam. |
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| Description: | Elevated view from bluff overlooking the railroad tracks and yard along the Mississippi River. A group of men are gathered on the track near stacks of lumb... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of quarrymen posing with their implements. There are carts on tracks that lead to the cliffs of the quarry behind the group. |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards a group of men posing standing and sitting near a rock face and a track. Identified as probably the quarry connected to... |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks towards a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face and a track, with a river on the left. Identified as probably the ... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of men posing standing near and on a rock face with two sets of small railroad tracks behind them. Identified as probably the quar... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a lumber mill. Piles of milled wood are in the foreground and on the right, with more stacks in the far background behind numerous small b... |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | View down set of two railroad tracks towards four coal miners posing in front of a mine entrance near a coal car. The caption in the book reads, "Strike-br... |
| 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... |
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