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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Caption on negative sleeve: "Aldo Leopold and son Luna (standing); Mrs. Leopold and two daughters Nina and Estella (kneeling). 'Shack' in background." The ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of a D-line truck hauling a large section of aqueduct with a reservoir in the ba... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the International delivery trucks. Features a color illustration of a De Luxe delivery trucks "with All-Steel . . . Streamlined Metr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | People descending a rustic stairway leading down to the trail along the Bad River. |
| 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: | 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: | Farmer Leo Sucharski on his new WD-6 diesel tractor. Mr. Sucharski is talking to C.A. Reef, an International Harvester farm equipment dealer from Gasport. ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for International school buses. Cover features a photographic illustration of school children boarding a bus for the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of Gays Mills from a bluff overlooking the town. A man is sitting on a fence in the left foreground. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View towards swimming pool towards people relaxing and sitting around the pool near the lake at the Baptist Assembly Grounds. Caption reads: "The Pool Nort... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a Menominee Ceremony, possibly the beginning of a dance. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A woman demonstrating how Shake Rag Street got its name, with the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, behind her. The house was temporarily co... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, built in the 1840s, on Shake Rag Street undergoing restoration. The house was temporarily covered with s... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior view towards a high school, with students walking on the sidewalks and several parked automobiles. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Customers standing outside the small bar are probably waiting to take the ferry across the river. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Spring Bank monastery. Man kneeling in from of one of the Stations of the Cross. This is probably part of the Cistercian monastery. Caption reads: "Station... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the porch of the house at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. A group of women are gathered on the fron porch. Snow covers the ground. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Men work on a new road with an International TD-18 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) and an Austin-Western grader. Original caption reads: "TD-18 T.T.T. and Au... |
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