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| Date: | 04 1911 |
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| Description: | Group of men standing on and beside a rail car in front of the main construction office at the site of the Wisconsin River dam. |
| 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: | 04 13 1912 |
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| Description: | Workmen operating a steam shovel loading gravel into electric rail cars during construction of the power dam. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards a group of five women in white aprons standing at the side of a factory building, possibly Deering Twine Mill. Other wo... |
| Date: | 09 30 1912 |
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| Description: | Pile drivers working within the confines of the coffer dam. Men are on the high trestle constructing chutes for pouring concrete. |
| 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: | 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: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Truck on the left is a Model H or Model F, the truck on the right is an International Model G (Later known as a Model G-61) truck. There is a truck driver ... |
| 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: | 10 29 1968 |
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| Description: | Mill drive purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by Duval. Original Falk caption reads, "260 inch x 34 inch single helical split ring gear... part of a phot... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Factory workers on the loading platform in the Repair Parts Department at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 05 04 1886 |
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| Description: | Lumber yard with boxcars and factory buildings in the back. Made while factory was under protection of the State Militia during the first general labor str... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers unloading a rail car on a loading dock at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun M... |
| Date: | 09 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers use a crane mounted on a truck to unload a transformer on the loading dock of International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption re... |
| Date: | 04 18 1926 |
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| Description: | A worker uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to pull a platform along tracks in a railroad yard outside a factory or other type of industrial building. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | An early Pawling and Harnischfeger cab-operated crane with dial operated controllers and a 5-ton type "O" bridge with a type "A" trolley. The operator is i... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A Pawling & Harnischfeger type "AN" hoist with a grab bucket and an enclosed trolley over railroad tracks with a train car underneath it. The crane is stam... |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger crane with a grab bucket used for unloading train cars at the Sullivan Mack Co. There are men on the tracks under the crane. Houses... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane over a railroad track and piles of lumber, with a building on the right. There is a sign that... |
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