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Logs in Ashland Harbor

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view of logs tugged across Lake Superior to the harbor at Ashland.
Photograph

Woodchopping Contest

Date: 1936
Description: A crowd surrounds a man as he stands atop a tree trunk swinging his axe in a woodchopping contest.
Photograph

Long Beach Street Scene

Date: 1936
Description: Businesses and cars parked along a dusty city street with oil derricks in the background. At right is the Stephens & Company, distributors of power units i...
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Diamond Jo Warehouse

Date: 1936
Description: Elevated view over the long roof of the Diamond Jo warehouse. The Mississippi River is on the left, with hills in the background.
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Loading Big Log

Date: 1936
Description: Loading a large white pine log cut on the Menominee Indian Reservation onto a truck. The log was hauled to the Wisconsin State Fair for a display about the...
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Loading Platform at McCormick Works

Date: 1936
Description: Factory workers on the loading platform in the Repair Parts Department at McCormick Works.
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International Truck and I-30 with Loader

Date: 1936
Description: A man is using an International I-30 industrial tractor with front loader to scoop gravel into the bed of an International truck owned by People's Gas Comp...
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International C-60 Trucks with Logs

Date: 1936
Description: Men use two International C-60 trucks to haul logs down a dirt road in a wooded setting.
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Fishing Village

Date: 1936
Description: View from water of a fishing village at Gills Rock, at the tip of the Door County Peninsula. Two boats, many nets, and three men are visible, along with a ...
Photograph

Commercial Fishermen

Date: 1936
Description: Three commercial fishermen in a boat lifting a trap net. In the bottom right foreground are the hands of another man holding the opposite side of the net f...
Book or Pamphlet

International C-300 Truck Brochure

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the International C-300 cab-over-engine truck. Features a color illustration of men working around an Empire Cartage C...
Print

International Trucks Ad Proof

Date: 1936
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks. Includes a color illustration of a shovel loading an International dump truck, and text that reads: "Each year ...
Print

International C-50 Truck Catalog

Date: 1936
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the International C-50 truck. Features a photograph of a shovel loading a C-50 dump truck with loose soil.
Photograph

Grand Coulee Dam Construction

Date: 1936
Description: Men using International trucks during the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam.
Photograph

Quaker Corn Flakes Truck

Date: 1936
Description: An International C-35 truck owned by the Quaker Oats Company parked in front of the Quaker Oats factory in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. Sacks of flour ...
Photograph

Gas Powered Shovel Clearing Snow

Date: 1936
Description: Winter scene with a gas powered shovel being used to move snow from a snow-covered road. A man is standing in the road to the right, watching. The shovel i...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin and Upper Michigan Road Map

Date: 1936
Description: This map shows road surfaces, construction, flying fields, seaplane landings, populations of cities and towns, and ferry routes of Wisconsin and some of th...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin

Date: 1936
Description: This colored road map shows automobile roads in Wisconsin as well as portions of Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, and Illinois. U.S. numbered highways are shown ...
Photograph

Holt Lumber Company Truck

Date: 1936
Description: View of one of the Holt Lumber Company trucks. A tree is growing in the street next to the curb. In the foreground, from left to right: an unknown man is s...

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