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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Mechanics working in a shop at the Bush-Ellis Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. At the time of the photo, workers were in the proce... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Factory workers on a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Factory workers on a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Behind the men are shelves filled with small m... |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Man, possibly William E. Bahn, boarding International Metro truck. |
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| Description: | Railroad workers pose near train engines lined up in a wooden roundhouse garage facility. The number on the train in the foreground is "1252." |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. Elevated view of a man working with a hand jig. Caption reads:... |
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| Description: | Soon after the turn of the century, Joplin was named the lead and zinc capital of the world. A group of young men are shown mining underground. Caption rea... |
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| Description: | Avery Island is home to the oldest salt mine in North America. A view of men working in the mines is shown. Caption reads: "Drilling Salt - Avery's Salt M... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A shoemaker in striped work jacket and a tie works on a machine in his shop. |
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| Description: | A man stands on a very large tree stump with his arms crossed over his chest. At his feet, crossed, are two axes. In the background, as a contrast, are thi... |
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| Description: | The marble company employees at work in a quarry. By 1885 the Rutland quarries employed about 3,000 workers. |
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| Description: | A quarry of Alaska Marble Company at Calder, with men at work. Photograph published by Winter and Pond Company. Caption reads: "Marble Quarry, Calder, Ala... |
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| Description: | Men work with the coke ovens at the coal mine. Caption reads: "Coke Manufacturing Scene, Near Bluefield, West Virginia." |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a man's arm using a wrench to make adjustments to a P&O tractor plow hitched to a tractor. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two men standing near the open doorway of a shed while using a hand-operated knife grinder to sharpen a sickle bar or blade. |
| Date: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a cap and overalls holding a burlap feed bag while standing near feed bins in the poultry house of Professor Holden. Tools are hanging from n... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a necktie and collared shirt using an axe to butcher a chicken on a block of wood at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. A ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of blind men learning carpentry skills at the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returni... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man holding a metal instrument approaching a tree stump to inspect why a dynamite blast did not go off. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the ground beside a mower hitched to two horses while performing repairs. An agricultural tool is lying on the ground beside him. |
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