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Tracy Plays Doolittle

Date: 1944
Description: Spencer Tracy as Jimmy Doolittle in a B-25 during a scene from "Thirty-Seconds Over Tokyo" (MGM 1944).
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"Dive Bomber" Helmet

Date: 1941
Description: A publicity still of Fred MacMurray from "Dive Bomber" (WB, 1941) in which a crew member is adjusting the helmet of MacMurray's pressurized flight suit. Be...
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Forest Products Laboratory

Date: 1946
Description: The Forest Products Laboratory.
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Langdon Street House

Date: 1948
Description: 120 Langdon Street, built in 1874 for Madison book and stationery dealer James E. Mosely (1836-1913), and his wife, Flora. In 1920 his family sold the ho...
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House on Pinckney Street

Date: 1948
Description: Home located at 222 North Pinckney Street. This home was said to be built between 1860 and 1870.
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Special Machine Tool Shop

Date: 05 02 1942
Description: Factory workers rebuilding production machinery at International Harvester's "Special Machine Tool Shop." Original caption reads: "All old machine tools co...
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Peter Fox Son's Produce Co.

Date: 1940
Description: Two men looking at a pile of poultry in a bin at Peter Fox Son's Produce Company. The man on the left is holding a turkey near a McCormick-Deering cooler. ...
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Homes for Workers at Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: A long building containing workers quarters at an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. The homes all share a long, covered porch. The lawns ar...
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Men Loading Logs onto Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Two men load logs from a clearing onto the bed of an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special truck owned by the Johnson-Manville Corporation. The truck had a 1...
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International Pulpwood Special Truck

Date: 1947
Description: A man uses an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special to haul logs. The truck is parked in a dirt lot next to what appears to be an open railroad car. There ar...
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Hauling Lumber with an International Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Two men load bundles of plywood(?) onto the bed of an International KB-7 owned by Burnside Construction Company. The truck had a 157-inch wheelbase and a B...
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International Power Exhibit

Date: 1947
Description: Men examine International power units and other machinery on display in the Industrial Power Exhibit for Allied Equipment Manufacturers. The exhibit took ...
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International K-7 Truck

Date: 1947
Description: A man loads an International K-7 dump truck with an excavator in a pit. One man is in the driver's seat of the truck, and two men are on the excavator. The...
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Loading an International Coal Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Man in a shed releases coal from a chute into the back of an International KB-11-F truck owned by the Coal Service Corporation. Another man is in the drive...
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Military Tank Repair Facility

Date: 1942
Description: Men stand in a factory, possibly the Bettendorf Tank Arsenal, used during World War II to repair tanks for the United States military.
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President Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill at Quebec

Date: 09 1944
Description: Prime Minister Winston Churchill greets President Franklin Roosevelt as he is about to exit his vehicle for their meeting at Quebec. This was their second ...
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Repaving & Widening Preparations for Washington Street

Date: 1948
Description: View down sidewalk along Washington Street facing east. Excavation is going on between S. 8th and S. 9th Streets. A crew is mixing concrete and doing work ...
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Washington Street Repaving & Widening

Date: 1948
Description: Crews of the Vinton Construction Co. are laying a 20 foot wide concrete slab in front of the northeast corner of Washington and S. 9th Streets. A truck is ...

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