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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Panorama view, elevated, of the Wisconsin State Capitol at night from the roof of a building on Monona Avenue. The First National Bank and the Belmont Hote... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Chicago & Northwestern railroad station, 219 S. Blair St., along with the Lake View Hotel, 524 E. Wilson St, in Madison. A man holding... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man delivering a block of ice to a residential home (150 Lakewood Blvd.) using an International D-300 Oscar Mayer truck with special streamlined body. The ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An industrial area of Milwaukee known as Menominee Valley. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Interior of Wisconsin State Capitol rotunda at entrances of the South and West galleries. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | International DR-500 cement truck with 94-inch wheel base owned and operated by Ireland and Lester Ready Mixed Concrete. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Female students and a horse next to, and inside of, an International D-15-M station wagon ("woody") used for transportation at the Clearbrook Riding Academ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three sportsmen with shotguns and hunting dogs around an International D-15-M station wagon ("woody"). The photograph may have been staged for advertising ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering #42 combine connected to a testing apparatus at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and was ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering #42 combine connected to a testing apparatus at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and was ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A small dog stands beside a large statue (appears to be carved out of wood) advertising Pompy Cigars, outside of a drugstore. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Assembly line packing by the Supreme Model Supply Co., a model airplane company started by Waukesha teenagers in 1940. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of a variety of storefronts in bustling downtown. On the left side of the street is Berman's, Cremer's Jewelers, Liggett's Drugs, and Kinney's Shoes. ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Farm manager R.M. Hawse standing in a Weber Wagon loaded with bags. The wagon is hitched to a Farmall A tractor. The bags are labeled "concrete cement" but... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | "She's Ready to Defend America," a portrait of Georgette Louise Meyer (aka Dickey Chapelle), as a member of the Women Flyers of America, an organization fo... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Keenan House at 28 East Gilman Street, which was the residence of Dr. George Keenan, Chauncey Williams, and Col. J.H. Knight, and today a Madison landm... |
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