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| 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: | An International D-500 truck owned by the Wickwire Spencer Steel Company is parked in the foreground of an industrial area near railroad tracks. In the bac... |
| 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: | Workers for the American Transportation Company in a highway dispatcher's office. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Allis-Chalmers plant showing several trains on the tracks next to a large industrial building. The steam engine tender in front of the loc... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | The Armour Company's Chicago factory, showing the employment office doors. The caption indicates that the police were present because the Packinghouse Work... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An original colored poster celebrating the Milwaukee Road's 90 years of progress. The poster features three photographs of locomotive engines, ranging in t... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Charles Enge, seventh from left, and supporters pose in front of the Al. Ringling Theatre. A sign on top of a car advertises his campaign for the Wisconsin... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the home of William T. Marriott, 721 Ash Street. It is a two-story brick house with Prairie Style influence, with a large chimney in th... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of the home of George Snyder at 1219 Ash Street. It is a large wooden Queen Anne-style house with a columned front porch and a corner towe... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from street of a two-story, wood frame house with a front porch sittomg on a wooded lot. The house has a large chimney, dentil molding under the eaves... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from rear of the interior of an International D-15 truck. A uniformed man is standing inside among a pile of packages. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A uniformed delivery man is standing next to an International D-15 truck parked near the curb in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Hawkins Service Station, located at 309 Seventh Avenue. The station has a pagoda style roof typical of stations designed between 1917 and 1930 by Alexande... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A crowd has gathered at a well preserved large stone barn with a cupola. Two men with cameras watch the scene from a hatch in the roof; there is a van wit... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A fleet of four pickup trucks of various makes and a larger truck, all advertising L.C. Welch Plumbing and Heating on the door. They are parked on a reside... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View from road of large two-story house which has been converted to a funeral home. The two-story structure has a large porch and brick on the first story,... |
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