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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man is posing with his left hand resting on the trunk of the General Grant Giant Elm, S.E. of intersection of Green Bay and Good Hope Roads. At site of P... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk along West Washington Avenue, looking toward the Capitol. A man is crossing the street and there is a car at the corner that has the wor... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Studio photograph of an Allis-Chalmers model B tractor. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Man loading a floral arrangement into an International model D-2 panel delivery truck for Lou's Flower shop. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A line of three International delivery trucks at a receiving dock: (from left) D-2, D-40 and A-line trucks. The trucks were owned by Home Ice and Cold Stor... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1939 line of International Model D-2 trucks. Includes an image of a bakery delivery man returning to a truck... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for International D-15 delivery trucks. Cover features an image of man delivering goods from a delivery truck owned ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Hazy eastern view of the Capitol Heating Plant on East Main Street. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the "Old Spring Hotel" located at 3706 Nakoma Road, built in 1854. Also called "Gorham's Hotel" and "Old Spring Tavern." |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View down Main Street towards the Park Hotel at the corner of Carroll and Main Streets. Located on the first floor of the hotel is The Park Hotel Barber Sh... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers take samples from the 8-ton Brackelsberg Furnace at McCormick Works. The original caption reads: "Furnace has three tap spouts. Large insul... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View of the Wisconsin State Capitol as seen from the Loraine Hotel on West Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of the water purification plant. A group of men are working on the front lawn of the plant. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Borgrud, in his work clothes, standing at the pumps at Droster's Grocery and Filling Station, 1438 Sherman Avenue. A child stands near a car beneat... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Man operating an International TD-35 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and an Isaacson snowplow to clear a road in Kootenai County. According to the original c... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man operating an International I-14 tractor and Hough street cleaner. The tractor was owned by the city of Santa Barbara. According to the original capti... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man plows snow with an International I-30(?) tractor on a New York City street. Men with shovels are standing on the sidewalk. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An International I-30(?) tractor plows snow from New York City streets. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view pf W.T. Hening, dressed in an apron, leaning over a McCormick-Deering No. 4 beverage cooler at the Seventh Street Buffet. A bar or lunch coun... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Gesu Church, with automobiles and pedestrians on West Wisconsin Avenue. There is a sign on the left for the Abbot Crest Hotel located at 1226 West Wiscons... |
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