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| Description: | A farmer standing near a tractor amidst turkeys at Reif Turkey Farm. The original caption reads: "Mr. Glenn Reif uses Farmall H for general farm work, belt... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor with a Number 8 bottom plow to work in a field. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man using a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor with a Number 8 bottom plow to do field work on a hillside. Farm buildings are in the backgr... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Ben Bergor and his wife Alvina performing their amazing escape act utilizing a straightjacket and a trunk. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Well-dressed relatives leave a house where they attended a family gathering. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A small crowd gathers for a Winnebago (Ho-Chunk) ceremony under an open air structure, probably in the Wisconsin Dells. Two men in ceremonial dress stand i... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Waist-up studio portrait of a Ho-Chunk man, Raymond Pettibone, posing sitting and wearing a hat and a shirt with rolled-up sleeves in front of a painted ba... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Full-length studio portrait in front of a painted backdrop of a Ho-Chunk woman, Mary Edith Wallace Vazquez, posing standing with her arm resting on a stuff... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Magda Moses Herzberger (third row, fourth from the left) with her piano class in Cluj, Romania. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Frank Hurn, driver for Davidson Transfer & Storage Company, wiping the windshield of an International D-40 truck. The truck appears to be parked near a har... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A worker at Davidson Transfer & Storage Company's loading dock moving a wooden crate marked "American Red Cross" onto the back of a waiting truck (possibly... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man changes the tire of a Davidson Transfer & Storage Company truck on the side of a road. The vehicles shown include an International Model D-15 servic... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two uniformed men unload a refrigerator from the back of an International D-30 truck used by the Sears, Roebuck, & Co. truck in front of a residence. A ma... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men handle bags near a barn. One of the men is standing on a wooden ramp leading up to the open barn door, the other is standing in the back of an Inte... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An International D-30 automobile with a special bulletproof body parked outside the Esquire Theater. Two police officers are standing near the vehicle, and... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Men in a washroom are cleaning an International truck used by Standard Freight Lines, Inc. The original caption reads: "Truck washroom. American Transporta... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in chairs at an American Transporation Company barber shop while barbers clip and comb their hair. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Workers for the American Transportation Company in a highway dispatcher's office. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man carrying milk bottles stands at the doorway to a walk-in cooler at the Eubanks Dairy. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Roger Thomas uses a McCormick-Deering milker on a Holstein cow at the Lee Thomas farm. |
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