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- Trestle
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- Who's on Second?
- 2nd story story
- Did they get to eat it?
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- I Miss The Smell
- What is that?
- Sauced
- Whose?
- Mrs. Landis
- The location today
- Not the marrying kind
- No kisses in Lititz
- That plate at the near end of the table --
- Poor kid
- Freedom from Want
- Did Mrs. Landis
- Wait. a. minute. here --
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- The old man
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The Ore Docks: 1941
August 1941. "Ore docks at Allouez, Wisconsin." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Mostly still there
Vachon is photographing from Great Northern Dock 1. They all were originally timber but were rebuilt with concrete and steel. The exception is Dock 3, rebuilt in timber, which we can see behind the foreground dock and is now gone.
High Level Air Brakes
It is unusual to see Duluth Missabe & Iron Range ore cars, with their uniquely placed air brake connections above the couplers, being shoved onto the Great Northern docks. The DM&IR had their own docks across the bay in Duluth.
Bootstrapping
It's interesting to see all the iron that went into the dock, ships, railcars, rails and other equipment so that more iron could be produced.
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