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Industry - early (pre 1920) Chamberland, Tenn., Iron Mine, Boane Iron Co. Ore transported by railroad barge on Tennessee River near Rockwood, Tenn.
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Industry - early (pre 1920)* Eli Whitney's cotton gin, 1793. Cotton was the backbone of the lower Mississippi commerce, thanks to Whitney.
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Industry - early (pre 1920)* Saw Mill boat on the Muskingum River, 1885. Owned by same persons who later ran saw mill boat
Mary H.
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Industry - early (pre 1920)* Saw Mill boat, Green River, Ky., 1900. Logs are sawed to order.
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Industry - early (pre 1920)* Allegheny River, Oil City, Pa., 1864. Traffic jam in mouth of Oil Creek, where loaded oil flats jam against bridge pier.
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Industry - early (pre 1920)* Allegheny River, Oil Creek, 1864. Pioneer oil wells lining the banks of Oil Creek near Oil City, Pa.
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Industry - early (pre 1920)* Ohio River quarry, near Sistersville, W. Va., 1890. Notice the Ohio River Railroad flatcar, a rare view of such equipment. B&O now owns the line, put through in 1884.
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* From the Way Collection
