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Snow Scene
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Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the crowd. Power, telephone and telegraph poles line both sides of the road. Deep snow covers the ground.
March 9, 1936
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Gas Powered Shovel Clearing Snow
1936
Winter scene with a gas powered shovel being used to move snow from a snow-covered road. A man is standing in the road to the right, watching. The shovel is on a Koehring crawler type excavator. In...
Digging Out Train Tracks
February 15, 1936
Slightly elevated winter scene with men shoveling out a Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul train about 3.5 miles north of Ripon. The locomotive is in the background.
Digging Out Train Tracks
March 1881
Winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad right of way. Between February 27th and March 4th, 1881, 2 to 4 f...
Snow Plow
1936
Winter scene with man driving a Model RD-8 La Plant-Choate V-Plow Snow Plow with side extension blades from the front. In the background are power poles.
Digging Out Train Tracks
March 1881
A winter scene with men digging out the train tracks by hand after a big snow storm in Racine County. Trees and a fence line the sides of the railroad right of way. Hand written on reverse: "The gr...
Men Shoveling Around Train
February 6, 1923
Winter scene with a group of men holding shovels pausing and looking toward the camera. Behind them is a railroad train in deep snow.
