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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Methodist Episcopal Church, founded in 1851. It claims to be "the oldest Scandinavian Methodist Episcopal church in the world." |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A house at 114 West Gorham Street, built for Dr. Edward G. Bartlett. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, built in the 1840s, on Shake Rag Street undergoing restoration. The house was temporarily covered with s... |
| Date: | 05 1948 |
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| Description: | On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | William T. Evjue (seated on the desk), editor and publisher of the Madison Capital Times, with members of his staff. Evjue was well-known for his jo... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Dean Acheson, Secretary of State during the administration of Harry S. Truman, 1949-1952, who played a crucial role in defining U.S. foreign policy during ... |
| Date: | 01 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Sergeant Peter Merkel, a member of the 32nd Division from Milwaukee, firing a mortar somewhere in New Guinea. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Interior of an International D-15-M (Metro) truck sold to Czechoslovakian Relief for service with Czechoslovakian Army in England. Original caption continu... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cab of an International model D-15-M truck with 102 inch wheelbase and Metro body. The delivery man is standing inside the cab on the passenger side of the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man pulling logs with an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor) on a logging road in a forest. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker wearing saftey goggles and welding a shell casing at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker greasing artillery shells at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. Original caption reads: "37-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female worker inspecting a ball bearing for an aircraft torpedo at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "The precision instrument us... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Miss Olive White of the Home Economics Department at International Harvester's Evansville Works. She is sitting at a desk, with a phone to her left ear. A ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man stands near an opera house sign, smoking a pipe and looking at his theater ticket. A poster advertises a show by Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a suit and hat is checking in and signing a piece of paper at a hotel registry desk. A suitcase is sitting at his feet and a hotel employee i... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker James Matzke clamps the barrel of a 20mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Stella Ringstrand mills a 20mm gun part at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Factory worker Emil Borchert grinds the shell receiver end of the barrel of a 20 mm cannon at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A female worker applies paint to a piece of an Army air-borne invasion tank in a booth at International Harvester's Indianapolis branch house. |
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