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| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The 600 block of Williamson Street ("Machinery Row") with the old Fauerbach Brewery in the background. |
| 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 International trucks. Features a color illustration of a D-400 truck and includes the text: "Now a Full Line of cab-over-engine Inte... |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | 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: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for 1940 International Model D-40 and DS-40 trucks. Features a color illustration of lumber workers loading a truck. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1940 line of International delivery trucks featuring a color illustration of a "streamlined" Metro truck in ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for International Model D-15 delivery trucks. Features an image of a driver unloading linen from a delivery truck owned by Atlas Linen... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1940 line of International D-400 and DS-400 series cab-over-engine trucks. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for International D-30 trucks. Features an illustration of the front of a truck, a paperboy with papers, and the triple diamond logo o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of East Mifflin Street on the Capitol Square. The Strand Theater is on the right. Automobiles are parked at an angle on both sides of the str... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Looking East down middle of avenue. Numerous vehicles are on the road, with a few pedestrians visible. A sign identifies the Republican Hotel on the left, ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Looking east on Wisconsin Avenue in the 800 block between 8th and 9th Streets. Cars are parked and driving down the street. An apartment block called the B... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from the Wisconsin Avenue Bridge. A building on the left has a large sign for Gimbel's on its roof. Beyond the river in the background are two large s... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view north of Wells Street with a bridge on the right. Two large smokestacks, and a tall building with a clock break up the skyline. On the left is a bil... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View across street of storefronts, including a barbershop, and a sign reading "Alamo" above a marquee that says "Free Poultry and Country Store". The 1100 ... |
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