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Farmall M Leveling Gravel at Hinsdale Farm

Date: 1949
Description: Worker leveling gravel with a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor and a no. 7 angle dozer at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm and testing facility.
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Cultivating Vegetable Field with McCormick Farmall C Tractor

Date: 1949
Description: Slightly elevated view of a farmer cultivating a vegetable field with a McCormick Farmall C tractor with attached cultivator. Farm buildings are in the bac...
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University of Wisconsin Historical Decorative Map

Date: 1949
Description: Color bird's-eye map of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as it was midcentury, with two co-eds, several photographs of campus landmarks around edges, an...
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Mullan Farm Equipment Company Dealership

Date: 1949
Description: "Prototype" dealership building of the Mullan Farm Equipment Company. An OS-4, Farmall C and Farmall AV tractor are parked outside the building. This "prot...
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International L-162 Delivery Truck

Date: 1949
Description: Deliveryman unloading Sealtest ice cream from an International L-162 truck to a drugstore.
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Hanchett Block

Date: 1949
Description: View of street corner on Hanchett's block, on the northeast corner of State and Brood streets, with a newspaper stand, clothing store, and a labor temple. ...
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200 Block of King Street

Date: 1949
Description: The 200 block of King Street looking toward the Union Transfer building.
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King and Wilson Streets

Date: 1949
Description: View downhill towards the intersection of King and Wilson streets.
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Road Work with Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader

Date: 1949
Description: Men using an Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader to work on an urban street. The grader was owned by the State Paving and Construction Co. Original caption states: "G...
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Philadelphia Road Work with #3/2 Adams Motor Grader

Date: 1949
Description: Men using a Number 3/2 Adams Motor Grader for road construction on Pine Street in Philadelphia. A laundry store is on the corner.
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Motor Grader on Display

Date: 1949
Description: Motor grader on display in the Industrial Power Exhibit for Allied Equipment Manufacturers at International Harvester's Melrose Park Works. The sign in fro...
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Baker-Thomas Company Truck

Date: 1949
Description: An International Model KB-6-F truck used by Baker-Thomas Company parked near the front of a library building. Two men stand on the bed of the truck with st...
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Group of Shriners in Oriental Band at Chicago Parade

Date: 1949
Description: Shriners on parade in Chicago. The men are dressed in middle eastern costume for an "Oriental Band" from the "-ktash Shrine Temple" [name obscured].
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Farmall M Tractor Pulling Hay Wagon

Date: 1949
Description: Two men are standing inside an open-sided barn loading hay from a wagon pulled by a Farmall M tractor.
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Farmall MD Tractor and Corn Picker

Date: 1949
Description: View of farmyard and farm buildings, with Clarence Schoger on a Farmall MD tractor with IHC corn picker and a wagon filled with ears of corn. Carl Schoger ...
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Man Operating Farmall Cub in Tobacco Field

Date: 1949
Description: Three-quarter view from front right of Jules Rudie, IH dealer at Westby, Wisconsin operating a Farmall Cub in six acres of tobacco, which previous to this ...
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Ceska Slovanska Lipa Opera House Interior, Julius J. Wergin, Painting & Decorating

Date: 1949
Description: View of the Julius J. Wergin Company's decorating crew painting the ceiling while standing on scaffolding high above the New Opera House floor. Paint cans,...

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