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| Date: | 04 17 1921 |
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| Description: | Workers shoveling grain, possibly corn, onto a lake vessel. Probably on the lower Milwaukee River. |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste... |
| Date: | 07 17 1914 |
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| Description: | Menominee River coal yards, west from the 16th Street viaduct. There is a cargo ship called the "John B. Cowle" in the harbor between two coal yards. Worke... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Stereograph of photographer Henry Hamilton Bennett pulling an oar on a Wisconsin raft. |
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| Description: | A group of CIO students, who are attending Highlander Folk School, enjoying a picnic at the nearby Foster Falls picnic area. Dad Horton standing on the lef... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Building from across the river, with construction workers working nearby. Signs for the Boston Store and Diamond tires are on the roof, as well as lettered... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Milwaukee River near the Milwaukee settlement. People are depicted doing work in boats along the shore. Original is a pen and ink drawing, presumably made ... |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Partial removal of railroad bridge over Rock River. A train is on a section not being removed in order to transport men and materials. |
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| Description: | River, with fence in foreground, reflecting trees and sunlight. On the right is a field with cows, a man near a fence, and a small dog. |
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| Description: | A photographer is setting up for a shot of a man by a river. Across the river are buildings with advertisements and signs. A large log transport is on the ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor, his niece Fern Stauff Peters, and a dog are sitting on rocks near a river. Taylor is holding what appears to be a camera. |
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| Description: | Winter view with men logging on the Little Wolf River during the winter of the "blue snow". Logs are being decked on the ice and along the shore. Horse te... |
| Date: | 05 27 1894 |
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| Description: | Farm boys watering horses. Two of the young men are seated on horseback while a third stands near them. |
| Date: | 06 04 1894 |
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| Description: | A fleet of dredges moored to the Kentucky shore. |
| Date: | 06 1939 |
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| Description: | Bridge on the Manitowoc River raised to allow the Pere Marquette car ferry through. River dredging equipment can be seen in the foreground. |
| Date: | 12 01 1937 |
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| Description: | A man parking an International D-30 dump truck used by the Bureau of Sewers near a river or harbor. On the opposite shore in the background are buildings, ... |
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| Description: | Uniroyal workers cross a suspension bridge over water at the end of a work shift. In the background are factory buildings and a smokestack. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six men on the shore of a river, with piles of clam shells inside loose wooden fences near a pile of firewood and an axe. The firewood may... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien (vicinity) about 1895-1900. Shell buyers with their launches and barges docked at shoreline. Freshwater clam shells were used in the pearl... |
| Date: | 08 05 1962 |
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| Description: | Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ... |
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