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| 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: | A spinning wheel, chair, and other kitchen objects in the corner of a room. Caption reads: "Corner of Pioneer Kitchen, Douglas County Historical Museum, Su... |
| 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: | Several men, some in Native American dress, stand on the roof of Parson's Indian Trading Post. The building is designed to look like a pueblo. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works (Truck Engine Works). Original caption states: "One of the foundry maintenance operations, ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A shoemaker in striped work jacket and a tie works on a machine in his shop. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International D-60 and DR-60 trucks. Includes the International Triple Diamond logo, and a photographic illustration o... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men are loading logs onto the bed of an International D-Line truck. A forest and mountain are in the background. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Three men load a pile of logs onto a trailer attached to an International truck in Ontario, Canada. There appears to be a belt-driven saw attached to the s... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man lifts a block of ice, using tongs, from an International D-15 truck owned by the Salem Ice Company as he makes a delivery to what appears to be a res... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men load blocks of ice from a loading dock onto the backs of International D-2 and D-15 trucks owned by the Salem Ice Company. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A man uses tongs to load blocks of ice from a loading dock onto the back of an International D-15 truck owned by the Salem Ice Company. The text on the tru... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Alfred Hitchcock stands on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He has his left hand in his pants pocket and is pointing at something with his righ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An overhead photograph from behind of Alfred Hitchcock sitting and drawing a storyboard on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." He is surrounded by... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Laraine Day is helped by a man on the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." She is wearing a dress and is soaking wet. She is either smiling or gritting... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A behind the scenes photograph of the set of the film "Foreign Correspondent." Joel McCrea is on a platform high above a group standing below. Alfred Hitch... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Edgar Krueger and Emil Hertz are sitting on separate piles of logs while holding either end of a saw as they cut through a large log. Behind them Shirley K... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing near the back of a Model D-15 owned by the City of Pasadena parked on the municipal golf course. The truck is used by the Park Departm... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View looking down at Taliesin apprentices rebuilding the Call Tower model first created before 1920. Work is being done in the Hillside Assembly Hall. The ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, railroad workers, fixing the wooden railroad ties. In the background are railroad cars on another set of railroad tracks.m |
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