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| Description: | A group portrait of workers in the American Plumbing & Heating Company. |
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| Description: | Two African American men working in a shoeshine shop. The younger man is shining the shoes of a white customer who is sitting in one of the chairs on the e... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
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| Description: | View down street towards men at work on a boarded-up building on a street corner. A city bus enters the street on the left. In the background is the Cathed... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a D-300-H truck used for garbage collection. Hercules body hydraulic hoist. Rounded sliding covers. Waterproof tailga... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of men working on a Works Progress Administration project. A group of men are standing and holding a beam upright in a trench, with a chai... |
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| Description: | A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, and horse-drawn wagons. One ma... |
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| Description: | A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, a crane, construction shacks, ... |
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| Description: | A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, a crane, construction shacks, ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View of the construction site of the Glander Building on the northeast corner of S. 9th and Washington Streets. A masonry crew is constructing the foundati... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a group of children standing in front of the Glander Building under construction on the northeast corner of S. 9th and Washingto... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk along Washington Street facing east. Excavation is going on between S. 8th and S. 9th Streets. A crew is mixing concrete and doing work ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Crews of the Vinton Construction Co. are laying a 20 foot wide concrete slab in front of the northeast corner of Washington and S. 9th Streets. A truck is ... |
| Date: | 07 19 1928 |
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| Description: | View down street towards a man using a McCormick Deering hoist. A group of men are manually setting a lamppost or other object onto a sidewalk. |
| Date: | 07 29 1983 |
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| Description: | A man is using a hose to wash a street. Behind him, a man is driving by in a car. A sign for Doc's Coin Mart is on the building behind the car. Caption rea... |
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