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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Girl selling vegetables to a customer at vegetable stand along Milwaukee pike. Original caption reads: "The little girl in charge sold over $800 worth of v... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Small vegetable store known as the North Shore (Home Grown) Vegetable House, along the north shore of Lake Michigan. To the right of the store two men are ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Gardener Edward Schuetz and four sons posing with his delivery truck loaded with vegetables for market. The truck is not an International model. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Man sitting in an International Model G delivery truck along street curb. The truck was owned by G. Dattilo & Sons, wholesalers of fruits, and featured a c... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | License from the City of Milwaukee granting Arthur Gerth permission to sell alcohol at 1222 12th Street. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of an International truck owned by P.C. Kern. The truck is filled with barrels and bottles of wines and liquors and i... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A driver sits in an International truck owned by the Gordon-Pagel Bread Company, possibly in Detroit. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man sits in an International truck owned by F.C. Siekmann. The truck is loaded with bags of Gold Medal Flour. Behind him is a parked truck carrying a lar... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | International truck parked outside of the Brown and Reynold General Merchandise store. The truck is loaded with boxes of Post Toasties, Toasted Corn and ba... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three men unload an International truck owned by J.E. Vann and Company Wholesale Grocers. The truck is carrying bags and crates of merchandise and is parke... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Four men pose around an International truck, probably a Model H, owned and operated by the Mount Zircon Spring Water Co. The truck is loaded with cases and... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two men stand near Riegel's Traveling Market truck, an International Model F (or 31) modified to hold baskets of bananas, pineapples, corn, lettuce, aspara... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Contents of an International Harvester "Christmas Box", including Fig Newtons, a Hershey's Chocolate Bar, Medicinal Carbolic Soap, Colgate's Handy Grip Sha... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | General line catalog color illustration of a Meadows mill. The text beneath the illustration reads, "Clean, Grind, Sift and Sack the Finest Quality of Corn... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man driving an International truck for Pepin Pickling Company. The truck is loaded with boxes of sliced dill and mixed sweet pickles, and traveling down ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two men are sitting in an International model "G" truck, parked next to a curb. Three men are standing against a storefront on the left. At the back of the... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Group of women in U.S. Food Administration uniforms demonstrate food conservation methods to a group of men, women and children. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Display in an unknown storefront urging food conservation. The display features small figures made out of vegetables. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Leaflet urging citizens to consume fewer sweetened beverages. The drawing shows a man and a woman seated at a soda shop. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A four-tiered drying rack used to dry fruits and vegetables hangs from the ceiling above a heater in what appears to be a basement or root cellar. |
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