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Sinclair Service Station

Date: 1938
Description: Three uniformed employees of the Sinclair Oil Company Service Station, located at 501 East Broadway, standing in front of the station's gas pumps. Two life...
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International Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of men loading lumber onto a truck with utility stake body. Includes the text: "...
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Delivery Man with International D-2 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: Employee of the Elmwood Food Shoppe making a home delivery with his International D-2 truck.
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Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy

Date: 1938
Description: Silverford's A.I.D. Pharmacy, with proprietor, assistant, customer and mailman standing among numerous retail displays and a McCormick-Deering "four in lin...
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Students Board International Bus on Snowy Afternoon

Date: 1938
Description: Students lining up to board an International D-40 school bus on a snowy afternoon. The bus featured a 235-inch wheelbase with a Rex-Watson, 49-passenger bo...
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Dealer Shows Farmall F-12 Tractor to "Customer"

Date: 1938
Description: Dealer P.W. Stonebrig(?) and his son posing as a dealer explaining a Farmall F-12 tractor to a customer. A Farmall F-20 tractor and several advertising pos...
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Serviceman Checks in F-20 Tractor

Date: 1938
Description: Serviceman Harold Finch filling out an "Inspector Form C-3219" for a Farmall F-20 tractor on the farm of H.B. Ayers as Mr. Ayers looks on. Mr. Finch's Inte...
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Ginseng Beds

Date: 1938
Description: Workers preparing ginseng beds in northern Wisconsin.
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Works Projects Administration at the Wisconsin State Fair

Date: 1938
Description: Fair-goers stand in line to enter the W.P.A. Exhibit tent at the Wisconsin State Fair.
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Factory Worker Using Hydraulic Riveter

Date: 1938
Description: Factory worker using a Hannifin hydraulic riveter on a frame assembly line at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works.
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Farmall F-22 Tractor

Date: 1938
Description: Man plowing a field with an experimental Farmall F-22 tractor.
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Commander Gatti Arrives in the Congo

Date: 1938
Description: Elevated view of men unloading trucks and equipment from a ship shortly after arrival in the African Congo. The equipment was used by Commander Atillio Gat...
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International Industrial Power Advertising Poster

Date: 1938
Description: Advertising poster for International "industrial power" equipment, including trucks and crawler tractors (TracTracTors). Includes color illustrations of In...
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Deep Rock Service Station

Date: 1938
Description: View across street towards Harry Rodin's service station at the intersection of North 7th and West Galena. People are standing at the corner near the bus s...
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CCC Youth Crew

Date: 1938
Description: A crew of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth starting for the field where they were working on ribes eradication as part of the effort to defeat the w...
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Making Grasshopper Bait

Date: 1938
Description: At the grasshopper bait mixing station at Fall Creek, two cement mixers were used to mix sawdust, a whey product, and sodium arsenite. So severe was the gr...
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Golf Course Maintenance

Date: 1938
Description: A man uses a rubber-tired Fairway 12 tractor with a Roseman mower attachment to care for golf course terrain. Two men are working in the background.
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Fairway 12 Tractor

Date: 1938
Description: Two men use a McCormick-Deering Fairway 12 with a grading attachment at Lincoln Park golf course.
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McCormick Twine Mill Workers

Date: 1938
Description: Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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Hay Chopper

Date: 1938
Description: Two men and a hay chopper on the McAllister farm.

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