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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Man standing on snow-covered ground with an International Model G truck and horse-drawn wagon at an oil depot. Handwritten captions on the photo mark "the ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original factory of the Highway Trailers Company in Edgerton. Beginning in 1909 the factory was the site of a wagon works, but in 1917 it made a rather ty... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men line up outside on the sidewalk in front of the International Harvester's Weber Works building. The factory produced wagons. Two men are looking down f... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The office staff of International Harvester's Weber Works are posing beneath an American flag in front of the exterior office door. Weber Works produced wa... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | International Harvester branch house. A bystander watches a man work on one of the railroad tracks outside the building. An man in a automobile is driving ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of International Harvester branch house. Signs on the building advertise farm machines, oil tractors, engines, wagons and motor trucks. A lon... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two men pose with their International Model F (or 31) oil truck. The truck was operated by the Marshall Oil Company truck. A can on the back of the truck a... |
| 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: | Original caption reads: "Model G, two-ton capacity, owned and operated by the International Harvester Corporation, Milwaukee, Wis, for cartage purposes, an... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man in an International model "G" truck with wooden boxes in the bed is parked outside of a vine-covered building. The building is most likely Internatio... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six men on the shore of a river, with piles of clam shells inside loose wooden fences near a pile of firewood and an axe. The firewood may... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Stationary engines of various sizes mounted on skids or planks of wood. The engines appear to be situated among scaffolding and an unfinished wall at what ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed man standing holding cigarette and newspaper. Original caption reads: "Mr. Gorbatenko secretary Chinese Eastern Ry. [Railway]." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of a woman tying a scarf around her head and knotting it under her chin. The photograph is one of a series demonstrating how to use... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A geological survey map that shows the sedimentary and igneous deposits in southeastern Wisconsin and south central Wisconsin, as well as the limits of gla... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two views of a man using the Elgin tractor. The image at left shows the farmer using the machine in a field; the image at right depicts the man using the t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Max Sennett Studios. There are many open-roofed studios with cloth diffusers. A huge sign reads: "Paramount-Comedies-Mack Sennett-Come... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | This map, which highlights the land for sale by the Rust-Owen Lumber Company in the towns of Drummond, Cable and Grandview, Bayfield County, Wisconsin, sho... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Caterpillar "75." The cover features an illustration of a crawler tractor, along with text reading: "The World's ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Back cover of a brochure advertising the Caterpillar 75 tractor, featuring two photographs of the machine at work. The top photograph's caption reads, "Cat... |
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