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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | International crawler tractors (TracTracTors) in front of an International Harvester dealership. One of the digging attachments has teeth painted on it. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View of Main Street, lined with the fire department, city clerk's office, and Pugh's Battery - Electric Shop. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the church (built in 1928), the rectory (built in 1876), the school (built in 1958), and the convent (built in 1941). Also includes a view ... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | An architect's model of Fort Dells. This is not an accurate historical reconstruction, but was built as a tourist attraction. There was never an actual for... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Fort Dells, an architect's model. This is not an accurate historic reconstuction but was built as a tourist attraction. There was never an actual fort at ... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | As part of a statewide boycott of Wilson products, delegates to the State Federation of Labor in Cedar Rapids participate in an automobile parade. One car-... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Woman's Building, one of the oldest buildings in the city. It is believed to have been built in 1842 by John Folsom, an early settler and farmer on the hei... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Purdy house, Portage, Wisconsin. A stone wall runs along the sidewalk, topped with an iron fence. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Numbers in circles identify buildings across campus with the building index. Black arrows point out important infor... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view over University Avenue of University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. Chadbourne Hall, built 1958-1959, is in the lower foreground, the Wisconsin H... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of the exterior of the Wisconsin Center for adult education at 702 Langdon Street. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Color postcard of an aerial view of town. There is a lake in the background in the upper left. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Parked limousine with open doors on a Havana street at the end of the Cuban Revolution. Two men in the foreground appear to be taking photographs of the ve... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking over a parking lot full of International Metro trucks. Factory buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Veranda in Santiago, Cuba at night with tables and chairs lit by a hanging lamp. The veranda looks down onto city lights and the bay at sunset. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of rows of Farmall tractors lined up in a lot outside International Harvester's Farmall Works. Original caption (with magazine article) reads... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Rows of Farmall tractors stand outside International Harvester's Farmall Works. The factory site includes Industrial buildings and a water tower. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Winter scene with Shirley Widmer, the photographer's wife, shoveling snow after a big snowstorm. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Westgate Shopping Center under construction. |
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