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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Publicity photograph of Irma Harding pointing out features of a new model refrigerator. Ms. Harding was a fictional character who acted as a spokesperson ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Actor Jack Carson congratulating the winner of the Wisconsin Dairy Queen at the Wisconsin State Fair, while another competitor is looking on. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Pela Rosen Alpert in Kristianstad, Sweden. She is sitting on the steps outside of a house looking at a photograph. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Weinschenker family poses for a portrait in a train car. From left to right are an unidentified man, an unidentified woman, Frieda Weinschenker (sittin... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A group of unidentified refugees are standing near baby carriages at a Displaced Persons camp in Germany. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A blind(?) man operates a piece of machinery behind a table in a display booth at the "blind veterans show." The booth is labeled "International Harvester'... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | From left to right, J.L. McCaffrey, President of International Harvester; Anita McCormick Blaine; Fowler McCormick, Chairman of the Board for International... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A stewards' training class conducted by local 108 of the United Packinghouse Workers of America. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | An original colored lithograph advertising the London Midland and Scottish Railway Company, and promoting Haddon Hall and the Wye Valley as "The Peak Distr... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Marie McCaddin, New York branch telephone operator." Overhead view of woman sitting at a switchboard. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Members of the Arms family (and a friend?) pose on Bernard Arms's farm. From left to right are Nellie Arms, Bernard Arms, unidentified man with eyes rolled... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a woman viewing stalactites in the Chapel, North Cave, in the Cave of the Mounds. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of a girl throwing a penny into the Brownie's Wishing Well in the Cave of the Mounds. Caption reads: "Brownie's Wishing Well." |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Colorized postcard of Stalagmite Statuary, South Cave, in the Cave of the Mounds. A girl is gazing upwards at the formation. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The Weinschenker family posing in the doorway of a train car. Standing in front of the group is Chaim Weinschenker. Behind him, from left to right, are an ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View across street towards factory buildings of a sugar refinery. Two women sit on the grass under a palm tree on the left. Factory buildings are behind a ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a an International KB-5 truck parked along a curb. Behind the truck is man talking to a woman at the open front door of a house.... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Lili Palmer is resting her head on John Garfield's shoulder in a scene from the 1947 film "Body and Soul." A piece of equipment, possibly a microphone, is ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Typewritten text with photograph reads: "Fowler McCormick, Chairman of the Board of International Harvester Company, welcomes Mayor Martin Kennelly immedia... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of nine children sitting around a table working on craft projects. A woman is sitting with them at the top of the table. |
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