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| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Ken Nelson, an employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids, monitors the performance of the #1 Treater. The machi... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the house at 1717 Fremont Avenue. Two small children are riding tricycles in front of the house. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children standing on barrels in front of Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue, run by Red Whitney. The children are Whitney's nieces ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue with a car at the pumps. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the house at 1705 Sheridan Drive and the garage behind it shortly after construction. The house was built by Willard Droster. There is a dog o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cy Young was widely regarded as the greatest baseball pitcher of all times. Cy Young, 80 years old, who resided in Newcomerstown, Ohio was invited to speak... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Fleet of International M-2-4 trucks manufactured at the Springfield Works for the U.S. Marine Corps. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | E.A. Hunger of the International Harvester Company adjusting a view camera on a tripod to take a photograph at the Port of Hueneme military base. P.P. Pasq... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Four cartoon characters drive a car towards Lawrence University. King made this cartoon for his niece Carole, who attended Lawrence College from 1941-1945. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | A pen and watercolor drawing of "Skeezix," a character from King's Gasoline Alley. The cartoon was drawn for King's niece, Carole, and reads, "Good ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Equipment on display in the Industrial Power Exhibit for Allied Equipment Manufacturers at International Harvester's Melrose Park Works. The foreground fea... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Poster design (14 x 36 inches) for "The Astonished Heart" (Gainsborough Pictures, 1949). |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Window card for "The Astonished Heart" (Gainsborough Pictures, 1949). |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Poster design (22 x 28 inches) for "The Astonished Heart" (Gainsborough Pictures, 1949). |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Celia Johnson reading to two small girls, probably her daughters Kate and Lucy. |
| Date: | 03 10 1949 |
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| Description: | Factory worker testing a Farmall Cub engine at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | U.S. Marines training at a rifle range, possibly at a Marine Corps firing range. A row of targets is on a hill in the background. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Bridget, Floyd, Katherine (Kate), Earl (Richard) and Ralph Quinney with visiting friends in front of their family's farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Front of a postcard from Dr. Rolland Anderson to Floyd Quinney and his family depicting mounted cowboys herding cattle on the range. The sky above the sc... |
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