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Marker detail: Steam Shovel
Photographer: Courtesy Jacksonville Public Library Special Collections
Caption: Marker detail: Steam Shovel
Additional Description: In the distance, you can see an early excavator called a steam shovel. Equipment like this helped a force of 8,000 people build the ship canal.
Submitted: February 13, 2021, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p568936
File Size: 3.114 Megabytes

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