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Presenting Trophy to Richard H. Puelicher

Date: 09 16 1932
Description: Westinghouse representive, Charles Doctal, presenting trophy to Richard H. Puelicher, D S Stophlet salesman for winning a 60 day refrigerator sales contest...
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Railroad Car of Refrigerators

Date: 08 12 1928
Description: Men unloading Frigidaire refrigerators from New York Central/Cincinnati Northern railroad box car to truck. The delivery is for the Gay Brothers Apartments...
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Evansville Works Employees

Date: 1946
Description: Group portrait of International Harvester's Evansville Works employees wearing suits assembled in front of the factory. The Evansville Works produced refri...
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Couple Shopping at Grocery Store Dairy Case

Date: 10 03 1947
Description: Elevated view of man and woman with a grocery cart shopping at the dairy case in a grocery store. Sign over case reads: "There's a Heap of Good Livin' Down...
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McCormick-Deering Dealers with Milk Cooler

Date: 12 02 1936
Description: Day and Perkins, McCormick-Deering dealers, stand by a milk cooler and milking machines in their dealership showroom.
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Milk Cooler Display

Date: 11 13 1936
Description: John M. Schmitt (probably an International Harvester dealer), right, shows a customer a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler on display. The sign above the ...
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Reeds Cafe

Date: 10 28 1936
Description: Interior of Reeds Cafe in Elsberry, Missouri. There is a man at the cafe reaching into a 6-can milk cooler. Also shown is the work space behind the counte...
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McCormick-Deering Wet and Dry Compartment Milk Cooler

Date: 10 20 1936
Description: A woman wearing a striped smock puts apples from a tin into a 4-can combination wet and dry compartment milk cooler. Also seen in the cooler are items suc...
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McCormick-Deering 10-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 13 1936
Description: Mr. and Mrs. John Kalbrach stand in front of their McCormick-Deering 10-Can Milk Cooler. Mr. Kalbrach is wearing overalls and Mrs. Kalbrach is wearing a fl...
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McCormick-Deering 10 Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 09 1936
Description: Elevated view of H.C. Wuesthoof putting a milk canister into what a 10 can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler.
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McCormick-Deering 10 Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 09 1936
Description: H.C. Wuesthoof places a milk canister into a 10 can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler.
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McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 09 23 1936
Description: Tony Gildig takes milk bottles from a crate and places them into a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler. Some of the writing on the cooler is readable but ...
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McCormick-Deering 10-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 07 13 1936
Description: A two or three-year old girl (identified as Donnie May Childs) sits atop a McCormick-Deering 10-can milk cooler. The cooler sits under a roof outside a bui...
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McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 11 21 1935
Description: Five men are examining a 16-can McCormick-Deering Milk Cooler at an International Harvester dealership or branch house showroom. A man uses his pen to desc...
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McCormick-Deering 6-Can Milk Cooler

Date: 10 02 1934
Description: A man places a milk canister into a McCormick-Deering milk cooler.
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Color Swatches of Refrigerator Colors

Date: 1951
Description: A female mannequin kneels behind ten color swatches for refrigerator door handles. Text on the display reads, "Pick a Color from the Rainbow!" and "Refrige...
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Kitchenware on Display

Date: 1951
Description: Two female mannequins are standing with an International Harvester freezer and refrigerator. This display may have been at the International Harvester head...
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M.P. Stevens & Sons Grocery Store

Date: 07 1937
Description: Two men, one in a tie, the other in overalls, stand next to a McCormick-Deering cooling unit on display in a grocery market. A sign on the back wall reads:...
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Brauer Bakery

Date: 1937
Description: A man stands in front of a 4 can milk cooler with two milk jars in his hands at the Brauer Bakery. Loaves of bread are on a table with a scale, a cake, an...
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Man Putting Milk Can in Cooler

Date: 1937
Description: Fred Esser puting a milk can into an McCormick-Deering 6 can milk cooler.

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