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| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Filling station sign reading: "smile," purposely put upside down. A young woman is bending over to read it. |
| 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: | 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: | Paul Spencer, a member of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 in Memphis, reminds citizens of his locals' strike against Wilson & Co. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 270 stand near the Swift & Co., plant in membership in an attempt to prevent Wilson products being lo... |
| 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 of Farmall tractors are loaded onto railroad cars as they prepare to leave International Harvester's Farmall Works factory. On the locomotive... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of International Metro trucks in a parking lot beside factory buildings. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Multiple International Metro truck bodies lined up along an assembly line at the factory of the Metropolitan Body Company, an International Harvester subsi... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | A group of soldiers, including Juan Almeida Bosque (center), operating chief of the Cuban Air Force, are standing outside of Camaguey Airport, Cuba. The so... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Parade in Havana to celebrate the success of the Cuban Revolution. A group of 26th of July Movement soldiers are sitting on top of a van as it is driving p... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Metro trucks and Metro-Mites parked bumper to bumper in an outdoor lot at the Metropolitan Body company, an International Harvester subsidiary. The truck a... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Four people board an International Metro school bus. A man wearing a hat sits in the driver's seat. A sign behind the bus reads: "State Fair." |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard view of cabins by a lake. In the foreground is a birch sign with antlers that reads: "Tonto." |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Grace Lutheran Church. Dedicated in 1959. Located at 1105 N. Bequette Street, near STH 23, on the north end of Dodgeville. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of State Street from the Wisconsin State Capitol building. Lake Mendota is on the far right. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Black and white photographic postcard of an Art Deco-style brick building with an neon sign in front. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Drawing of an abstract shape in red, yellow, black and blue. It reads: "To You, Safety First, In 1959, Is A Personal Problem." |
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