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| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Bert Williams (right) and Leon Errol (left) are a cabbie and his fare from the 1912 Ziegfield Follies. The cab is drawn by a rumpled pantomime horse. Behin... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Eighteen man crew for the Union Pacific Silo Special Trip posing for a group portrait in front of railroad cars. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | African American worker assembling a wagon axle running gear while a co-worker is looking on at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. The factory wa... |
| Date: | 10 01 1912 |
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| Description: | African American wagon driver standing with a horse-drawn wagon parked on a city street. The man is likely an employee of International Harvester, possibly... |
| Date: | 03 08 1915 |
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| Description: | View of a prisoner, who has a wooden leg, hauling "lighter" wood from the pine woods and Turpentine Orchard to camp with an ox-drawn wagon. Original captio... |
| Date: | 01 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory workers standing between rows of parts bins at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick H... |
| Date: | 08 30 1913 |
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| Description: | John Kaminski and mechanic Jack Knight making mechanical repairs to Kaminski's plane during an emergency landing at High Point. Such events were guaranteed... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | African American driver delivering a load of lumber with an International Model H semi-truck. The truck was owned by Farrar Lumber Company. The company was... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an African American prisoner hauling goods with a horse-drawn wagon. Original caption reads: "Baled alfalfa, bacon, flour and grain which... |
| Date: | 09 1917 |
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| Description: | South Carolina convicts building a road at Camp Wadsworth near Spartenberg in preparation for the camp's use as a National Guard training camp. The prisone... |
| Date: | 10 02 1912 |
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| Description: | African American heavyweight boxing champion, Jack Johnson, drove up to Milwaukee from his home in Chicago to watch the Vanderbilt Cup race on October 2, 1... |
| Date: | 08 1912 |
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| Description: | Two African American men unloading the cement chute during paving of Janesville Plank Road. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three men unload an International truck owned by J.E. Vann and Company Wholesale Grocers. The truck is carrying bags and crates of merchandise and is parke... |
| Date: | 06 1918 |
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| Description: | Gravel screening and separating plant of the 310th Engineers in operation on a road near Camp Custer. All of the soldiers at work on this road construction... |
| Date: | 02 10 1919 |
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| Description: | Members of the 15th Regiment (Colored) of the New York National Guard arrive home as heroes. They earned the distinction of being the only regiment to neve... |
| Date: | 11 14 1918 |
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| Description: | Members of the 134th Infantry quartette and band entertain the stevedores on the dock at Marseille, France, three days after the end of the war. Men standi... |
| Date: | 09 04 1919 |
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| Description: | A man in a hat drives an International model "G" truck carrying logs with a wagon past a building. On the image is written: "Weight of load, "16.000.LB", a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Two men sitting in an International model "G" truck pulling a wagon with logs tied together on top of it. Several logs are stacked on top of wood beams to ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A group of men and a boy pose near the rapid transit car labeled, "Aileen" and "Hotel." Caption reads: "Rapid Transit Car, Washington, GA." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a dock, as naval stores are being loaded on a ship. Workers are on board the ship and on the dock, surrounded by cargo. Caption reads: "Loading Nav... |
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