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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: | Man unloading cases of 7-Up soda outside a delicatessen at the corner of Michigan and Northampton streets. Truck operated by Henry Guggenheimer. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Jars of canned food are stored in the cellar of the restored Cornish miner's house, called Polperro, on Shake Rag Street. The house was temporarily covered... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Hadley Mill on the Little Platte River, seven miles southwest of Platteville in the Town of Paris. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | There is a sign painted on a building at right that reads "Schlitz". In the bottom right are railroad cars. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Children standing on barrels in front of Droster Grocery and Filling Station at 1438 Sherman Avenue, run by Red Whitney. The children are Whitney's nieces ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Advertisement produced for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer featuring a man wearing a suit and hat, supposedly at a sports event, excitedly holding a cup of beer. Th... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Iva Kearney of Ithaca, Wisconsin, holding a glass of milk in her hand. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Outdoor advertising billboard rendered from a photograph of Iva Kearney of Ithaca, Wisconsin, holding a glass of milk in her hand. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | International model D-2-M truck with 115-inch wheelbase and Metro body. A man in a hat on the left is walking away from the van with some boxes towards Go... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cab of an International model D-15-M truck with 102 inch wheelbase and Metro body. The delivery man is standing inside the cab on the passenger side of the... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Man standing with a pie container next to an International model D-15-M truck with Metro body. According to the original caption, "Chef Wright" is the driv... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man standing holding a basket near an International D-2-M truck with a 113-inch wheelbase and a Metro body. This truck was one of twenty owned by the Fri... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man holding a package standing next to an International model D-15-M truck with a 113-inch wheelbase and a Metro body. This truck was one of four Interna... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man standing at the back of an International Metro truck with a basket of bread. The truck includes the text: "Jaeger's / Butter-Nut is fresh bread". "Ha... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Workers stand behind a food service counter at the Tractor Works (factory) cafeteria. The counter is loaded with dishes, cups and saucers. One woman is mov... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A woman in uniform standing by the open door of a walk-in-cooler in the cafeteria at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). A man is standing ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men looking at a pile of poultry in a bin at Peter Fox Son's Produce Company. The man on the left is holding a turkey near a McCormick-Deering cooler. ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Workers standing near bottling equipment at the Royal Crown Cola Company. Advertising signs for Royal Crown and Nehi soda are in the background. |
| 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. |
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