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KR-11 Truck on the Rim Rock Highway

Date: 1944
Description: International KR-11 truck with semi-trailer (semi-truck) operated by Northwest Freight Lines. The truck is on a mountain road next to a large rock formatio...
Photograph

KR-11 Truck at Billings Municipal Airport

Date: 1944
Description: Man driving an International KR-11 truck with semi-trailer at the Billings Municipal Airport. The truck was operated by Northwest Freight Lines. Original c...
Photograph

International KR-11 Truck with Semi-Trailer

Date: 1944
Description: International KR-11 truck with semi-trailer backed up to a loading dock at a Dakota Transfer & Storage warehouse.
Photograph

International KS-11 Truck

Date: 1944
Description: International KS-11 truck and semi-trailer shown traveling the highway leading out of Altoona. Original caption reads: "In traveling these mountainous road...
Photograph

International Truck on the Ohio River Boulevard

Date: 1944
Description: Continental Transportation Lines, Inc. operating an International truck tractor on an urban highway. A bridge, houses and industrial buildings are in the b...
Document

International Harvester Company Annual Report

Date: 1944
Description: Cover of International Harvester Company's annual report, featuring a photograph of Marines using International Harvester equipment during the invasion of ...
Photograph

"Murder, My Sweet" Film Still

Date: 1944
Description: Film still from the RKO movie "Murder, My Sweet," featuring Dick Powell (playing Philip Marlowe).
Print

Louis Schoen's Old Lager, Label

Date: 1944
Description: Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Louis Schoen's Old Beer Lager, Quality has No Substitute, Brewed and Bottled by the ...
Photograph

Young Girl with Purse and Hat

Date: 1944
Description: Jo-Claren Maurin (b. 1942) sitting on the stoop of her house in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin wearing a red straw hat and holding a matching red straw purse. She is...
Map or Atlas

Wisconsin Transportation Map : Highways, Railroads, Canals, Air Lanes, and Dredged Channels

Date: 1944
Description: This nine-part map from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads identifies federal and state highways in Wisconsin by pavement type. County, forest, park, and publ...
Photograph

Motorcycle Police in Front of Badger Ordnance Sign

Date: 1944
Description: Motorcycle police at the Badger Ordnance plant in Baraboo, Wisconsin, between 1942 and 1945. These men patrolled the fence line of the plant. One of the gu...
Photograph

Lyle Lilly in Badger Ordnance Motorcyle Police Uniform

Date: 1944
Description: Lyle Lilly (1916-2011) stands in front of his home at 838 Woodrow Street in Madison, Wisconsin. He is wearing his motorcyle police uniform that he wore whi...
Print

"Double Indemnity" Lobby Card

Date: 1944
Description: Lobby card for the Paramount film "Double Indemnity," featuring head shots of the three leads: Fred MacMurray (as Walter Neff), Barbara Stanwyck (as Phylli...
Print

"Double Indemnity" Lobby Card

Date: 1944
Description: Lobby card for the Paramount film "Double Indemnity," featuring a tinted scene from the movie, with leads Barbara Stanwyck (as Phyllis Dietrichson), Fred M...
Poster

Register

Date: 1944
Description: Poster of a man's arm with his shirt sleeve pushed up. He is holding a yellow card in his fingers with the text, "The Ballot is a power in your hands. Use ...
Poster

All Working for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers," featuring an illustration of military planes flying over a man working with a Farma...
Poster

All Working for Victory

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of Naval officers loading a cannon above an ill...
Poster

Food for Fighters Everywhere

Date: 1944
Description: Wartime poster advocating people to "Join the Victory Farm Volunteers." The poster features an illustration of a cargo ship and Army truck set against that...
Print

The Solar Home

Date: 1944
Description: The cover of a 12 page advertising booklet called "The Solar Home," featuring the illustration of a window superimposed over a burst design. The text reads...
Poster

Our Friend

Date: 1944
Description: A poster featuring the face of President Franklin Roosevelt on the right, and several people on the left. A soldier is holding a child in his arms, and oth...

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