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Workers Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1910
Description: Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation...
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La Follette and Railroad Group

Date: 12 22 1930
Description: Phil La Follette confers with rail chiefs. Front row (left-right): F.B. Seymour, Green Bay and Western, Philip F. La Follette, Governor-elect, Fred W. Sarg...
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Tunnel at Tunnel City

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Description: View down railroad tracks towards a group of construction workers posed near the east portal of the railroad tunnel near Tunnel City.
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The Railroad Section Gang

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Description: Five men known as the Railroad Section Gang pose together on a handcar on railroad tracks. They traveled on handcars and repaired tracks. Standing second f...
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C.B.Q. Concrete Bridge

Date: 1922
Description: View across field of workers constructing a Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad bridge.

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