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| Description: | The Greendale Department of Public Works used this truck to collect trash. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley. |
| Date: | 06 30 1975 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire taking a lunch break during a workday spent collecting trash. These events kept Proxmire in touch with his Wisconsin constituents,... |
| Date: | 03 14 1949 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Edith Trowbridge, 4202 Mandan Cresent, pulls a ring on a string which opens a trap door to a metal-lined slide to a basement trash box under her sink ... |
| Date: | 08 17 1926 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor equipped with pneumatic tires and Hercules vacuum brake system to pull a specially designed semi-tr... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Men load boxes onto an International D-300 truck owned by the City of Santa Ana. The truck was used for garbage removal. One man stands in the bed of the t... |
| Date: | 05 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Three men load garbage onto the back of an International DS-35 truck owned by the City of Louisville, while two men sit in the truck's cab. The truck is on... |
| Date: | 01 03 1939 |
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| Description: | A man empties a garbage can into the back of an International D-300 truck parked in a residential neighborhood near houses. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and bonnet empties a pail of ashes into a refuse pile in the front yard of a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A man is emptying refuse into an International R-180 garbage truck parked in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Rags, discarded shoes, empty bottles and food cans littering the space surrounding a rear entrance to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men emptying a metal garbage can into the bed of an International Model AW-2 truck. The lettering on the truck reads: "Garbage Dept. P... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Four men gathered outdoors. Two sit on stoops of houses while two stand in the dirt pathway. More homes are visible in the background. There is a garbage o... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Two workers are placing refuse in a garbage truck. One is an African-American man in a jacket, hat, and gloves and carrying a trash can. The other man is f... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View from lawn in a residential neighborhood of three men pushing trash cans on hand carts towards a garbage truck. Behind the garbage truck is an Internat... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | An African-American man is dumping a barrel of trash into an International Harvester Scout with a dump body driven by another African-American man. They ar... |
| Date: | 2013 |
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| Description: | The driver of a Harter’s Refuse truck throws a bag of trash into his truck. He is holding one trash can, and two others sit near a garage. He is wearing a ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of man carrying a metal trash bin towards a dump truck. A man sits in the driver's seat. Another man stands near metal trash bins behind a fence along... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, one in the driver's seat of the D-300 M.T. truck, and the other carrying a metal trash bin, on a residential street. The truck is used by the Refu... |
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