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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Customer standing at the service counter of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters for the U.S. Truck Conservation Corps and WWII scrap... |
| Date: | 05 16 1945 |
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| Description: | United States Rubber Company group seated at a table with a display of rubber products in the background, "Rubber Goes to War," in the Pompeii Room at the ... |
| Date: | 03 04 1932 |
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| Description: | Handicrafts, including wicker furniture and rugs on display at the sales display room in Wisconsin Memorial Hospital, on Farwell Point, adjoining Mendota M... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | Two well-dressed women in aprons and two smartly dressed men pose in front of the open entrance of J. Buntman's fruit and confectionery store at 1005 North... |
| Date: | 03 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Alvan Rothermel, Glen Oak Hills, purchasing seed, labels and tools, for his Victory garden from Louis Schuster, manager of the L.L. Olds Seed Company, 720 ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A blind(?) man operates a piece of machinery behind a table in a display booth at the "blind veterans show." The booth is labeled "International Harvester'... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two men assemble a patriotic display consisting of International machinery, a T-9 Tractractor (crawler tractor), a cannon, coils of barbed wire, signs, and... |
| Date: | 08 15 1942 |
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| Description: | Adults and children stand around a vegetable stand under a covered booth at a Civilian Defense Rally. Behind the booth is a tent, and in the far background... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman and two men are standing by the counter of Post Motor Transport Department's parts room. Boxes are stacked on the counter; shelves of more boxed su... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer Chester E. Seif signs a pledge of cooperation with Governor Heil's "MacArthur Week" scrap drive. H.J. Brosnahan (left), mana... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | International Harvester dealer H.J. Nigles of Madison and Verona, Wisconsin, hands a signed pledge of cooperation in a scrap drive campaign to W.R. Ploetz ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Five women look at a window display at the Schweke Brothers Store, 129 Third Street, which occupied the 1910 Risley Brothers Building. A man sits in the dr... |
| Date: | 05 1961 |
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| Description: | Airstrip at Luang Prabang airport, Laos. A young food vendor stands with a large circular tray on his head which casts shade for him. A silver plane sits o... |
| Date: | 05 1961 |
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| Description: | A young vendor stands with a large plate of food on his head and a satchel around his neck at the runway of the Luang Prabang Airport, Laos. There is a sil... |
| Date: | 08 27 1956 |
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| Description: | Richard Bosold, a member of the Boy Scout Troop 16 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic school, delivers one of the civil defense posters to Robert Schmitz, gener... |
| Date: | 11 29 1957 |
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| Description: | Empty Stocking Club's gift wrapping committee posing amidst dolls on display at Sear's toy department. Left to right: E.L. Diener, manager of the Sears sto... |
| Date: | 02 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Indigenous traders on the sidewalk in front of the Burns Philip Ltd. Store display window at Apia, British Samoa (today the independent country of Samoa). ... |
| Date: | 1898 |
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| Description: | View of a horse-drawn float decorated with banners and flags and rows of pharmaceuticals on shelves. Two costumed children are posing in the back. A large ... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a sidewalk in front of a storefront and donating a cigar to a collection box. A sign on the collection box reads: "Cigarren für unsere... |
| Date: | 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Jeff and Gregg Anderson playing cowboys with plastic tommy guns at Toyland, the Wolff-Kubly-Hirsig store. |
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