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Young Children Play in Squalid Alley

Date: 1925
Description: Three young children playing with a wagon in a squalid alley between rows of impoverished houses. Trash and rubble litter the alley.
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Men Greasing Cars

Date: 07 01 1927
Description: Men greasing cars in the Klean Rite Auto Laundry, located at 739 East Mifflin Street.
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Loading Onions into International L-160 Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Vie across drive towards two men loading bags of onions into an International L-160 truck parked outside a garage or storage shed. Pumpkins are stacked on ...
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Man Washes Smucker's Truck Trailer

Date: 1970
Description: A uniformed man in an indoor garage or warehouse is using a power washer to clean a truck trailer emblazoned with the Smucker's logo.
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Federal Yeast Corporation Truck

Date: 10 28 1936
Description: Men loading boxes of yeast into the back of an International truck owned by the Federal Yeast Company. The truck is parked on a sidewalk in front of the ga...
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George William Piernot

Date: 1961
Description: George William Piernot (1922-2000) standing outdoors wearing his Madison Fire Department uniform near the garage and home of his parents George Francis and...
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International Garbage Truck

Date: 1931
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...
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Chalmette Laundry Truck

Date: 09 22 1938
Description: A man loads boxes and packages into the back of an International D-2 truck owned by the Chalmette Laundry division of the Crescent City Laundries, Incorpor...
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International D-300 Truck

Date: 1937
Description: A man unloads a rolling cart filled with wrapped packages from an International D-300 truck onto a loading dock. The truck was used by United Parcel Servic...
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Department Store Delivery Trucks

Date: 09 08 1938
Description: Four employees of Sibley, Lindsay, and Curr Company department store load wrapped packages into the backs of a fleet of eight International Model D-15 truc...
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Texaco Truck at Service Station

Date: 01 14 1938
Description: Two men stand beside an International D-346-F truck owned by Texaco. The truck is parked outside Lapham Brown Texaco service station.
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Car Wash

Date: 1930
Description: View of a man wearing an apron washing an automobile up on a lift.
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Theresa Fire Company

Date: 03 1983
Description: "Theresa Fire Company."
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Mother and Child Standing on Front Steps

Date: 1973
Description: View from inside front door of a mother and her three-year-old daughter standing on steps while a delivery man comes down the walkway. The mother is dress...
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Child Playing on Trike with Mother and Delivery Man

Date: 1973
Description: A child (Mary Clayton) is playing on a plastic trike with a large front wheel in a yard. She is wearing a red dress and is standing over the seat of the tr...
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Main Street Looking South

Date: 1912
Description: View looking down unpaved Main Street, with wagons and carts parked near the curb on the left near a building with a sign for a "Garage." Pedestrians are a...
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Saving Energy

Date: 1979
Description: During a tour of his district Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey visited various sites where energy-saving projects were underway. Here a workman on a lad...
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Springhill Cottages "At the Dells"

Date: 1927
Description: Group portrait of family sitting on a bench in the foreground in front of a guest cottage. One boy sits on a porch railing behind the group. There is an au...
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Jonathan Bowman Home for Women

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Description: Exterior view from street of a house in a residential neighborhood. A carport or porte-cochere is on the left of the front porch. Two women stand in the ya...
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International Harvester Scout 80 1962 Fire Truck

Date: 10 15 1964
Description: International Harvester Scout 80 1962 fire truck. Original caption reads: "Photograph MW-441-- A fire-fighting adaptation of the Scout by International has...

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