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| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | This was the first boat & sled-type windsled built on Madeline Island. Built by Elmer Nelson for Howard Russell between 1950-1951. Had a 9-cylinder R-680-E... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Jesse Brabazon, pioneer aviator from Delavan, displaying fabric from the Vin Fiz, the airplane in which Calbraith P. Rodgers made the first transcon... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A cashier checking out a customer's purchases while another customer is filling her grocery cart with items at the D. Kurman company market. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of young Native-American men dressed in traditional clothing standing around an International R-Line truck. The young men are with a small... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Harness racers are shown in action at the Wisconsin State Fair Park, with an audience watching from the grandstand. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of an International Roadliner diesel truck delivering oil to the Thrifty Service station. The delivery crew is hooking up a hose to the tr... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a man loading cargo into the 12-foot Freuhauf van body of a R-150 International truck. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of an International R-110 Station Wagon parked on a lawn. In the background is a group of people enjoying a picnic. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an International R-205 Sleeper Cab Truck with closed top van semi-trailer outside a Farmall dealership. The truck is parked next to a man operating... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Two children are exiting an International R-183 School Bus. The children are greeted by a woman, possibly their mother. A man, possibly the father of the c... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of International R-195 And R-120 trucks and truck drivers at a loading dock. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of a milkman using an International RBA-140 Milk Delivery Truck to complete his route. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | International R-172 ice cream truck with mechanically refrigerated body. The truck is backing up to a loading dock. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Man and a boy loading (or unloading) pumpkins into an International R-160 truck. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of the Butternut House in the Kohler Foundation restoration project. The service building at the right in the background is operated by the Conservati... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Nemadji River at the foot of 2nd Avenue and Robertson Avenue. A man is standing near the grassy shoreline in the center. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the Sturgeon Bay Canal Lighthouse, with a group of people in a motorboat in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Trucks mounting a steep grade in the testing track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Inte... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | International pickup kicking up dust on a dirt test track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used ... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Cacti frame three International semis and a pickup on a test track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground ... |
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