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| Date: | 06 08 1963 |
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| Description: | Bride and groom wait in the open convertible that is their transportation to their reception while a mechanic works under the hood. |
| Date: | 02 17 1937 |
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| Description: | Benjamin Knotts and a representative of Schultz Tire and Battery Service, with a Schultz tow truck parked in front of the office of the Wisconsin Division ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Tire blowouts were a frequent hazard of early automobile travel. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Photograph taken through the broken windshield of a Wisconsin State highway patrol car. The patrolmen are at the scene of an automobile accident somewhere ... |
| Date: | 01 30 1929 |
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| Description: | A man stoops to change the tire of an International Special Delivery truck by the side of an African road. The truck was part of an expedition sponsored by... |
| Date: | 07 20 1948 |
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| Description: | Flooded South Park Street underpass, with car stalled in three feet of water. A train is on the railroad bridge above. A young boy and girl wearing bathing... |
| Date: | 12 08 1936 |
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| Description: | Men gather around an International D-40 truck stuck in soft sand on a road along a shoreline. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man is towing a damaged automobile with an International Six-Speed Special truck. Original caption reads: "'Six speed special, 124" wheelbase, mounted on... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Soldiers from the 14th Infantry work to move a stuck Jeep from deep mud. One man in uniform with a cigarette in his mouth is leaning down over the wheel ho... |
| Date: | 07 31 1962 |
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| Description: | Keystone Automobile Club's International Scout used for Roadside assistance. A man is fixing the tire, while another man looks on. Original caption reads: ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Left side view from roadside of a tow truck pulling a 1919 Ford coupe. The detached front axle of the coupe is in the bed of the tow truck. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Scouts at a winter camp push a car stuck in deep snow. Trees are in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A National brand automobile is stopped on the side of an unpaved road as a horse-drawn buggy approaches from the rear. The car is pulling a racing yacht on... |
| Date: | 12 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Soldiers looking at ambulance 4, 128th Ambulance Co. stuck on the worst hill on the road to the Rhine. 32nd Division between Buchel and Kaisersesck, German... |
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| Description: | Posed image of an automobile striking a camel. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored lantern slide showing a group of men on an archaeological expedition in Algeria pushing one of the expedition vehicles nicknamed "Hot Dog" in ... |
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| Description: | Both good and bad luck at the same time. While driving passed an artillery shell damaged section of a mountain road, a heavily loaded supply truck slid off... |
| Date: | 12 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is changing a tire on the truck that crossed the Sahara. |
| Date: | 09 03 1917 |
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| Description: | W.A. Holt is standing next to his broken down car in the woods. Three men on the left are examining the wheel of the car. One man is holding a crowbar. On ... |
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