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| Date: | 11 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Three men on scaffolding are installing Capitol Rock Wool insulation, from a R.H. and E.H. Carpenter Inc. truck into a house at 616 N. Carroll Street. |
| Date: | 05 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Durfee Brothers Roofing Co. truck in front of a home, Jos. P. Slightam residence) at 341 West Wilson Street, with a roofer installing shingles on the steep... |
| Date: | 01 17 1934 |
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| Description: | A Johns-Manville Contractors Asbestos Products Company Rock Wool home insulation truck and trailer is parked in front of a house, with workers on ladders a... |
| Date: | 1868 |
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| Description: | The first ladder wagon of Capitol Hook and Ladder Company #1 posed at the corner of Pinckney and Main streets to show off the length of the wagon and the 4... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A driver is leaning against an International G-61 truck operated by the Shaw Transfer Company. The truck is parked on a snow-covered street and appears to ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Truck at the construction site of the World Trade Center. |
| Date: | 10 12 1926 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering Kerosene engine to run a conveyor to load grain onto a train boxcar near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada(?). A building in t... |
| Date: | 02 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Service control tower in the service department of Kayser's Motors, 701 East Washington Avenue. A service manager is shown in the suspended tower and a tru... |
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| Description: | A group of men are gathered around a horse-drawn cart that is pulled up next to a railroad car. The cart has "Wisconsin Humane Society" written on its sid... |
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| Description: | A group of fire fighters standing in the street while two men are being raised on a moving ladder, which is attached to the back of a truck. Two other ladd... |
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| Description: | A group of four young children sitting in a circle on the grass. Several buildings are in the background, and a few bare trees are on the right. The buildi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Several men, some in Native American dress, stand on the roof of Parson's Indian Trading Post. The building is designed to look like a pueblo. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Horse-drawn fire wagon in front of several brick buildings, including the Capitol Publishing building, near the water tower. The man driving the wagon may... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A man hangs on to the side of a train from a ladder and waves his hand. Original caption reads: "Giving his engineer the 'highball' upon arrival of the 25-... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | The Shell filling station, 341 State Street, as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time judged the second most bea... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Spectators near the grandstand at the Road America sports car race. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from water of Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends ove... |
| Date: | 10 13 1938 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the wheel of an International Model D-30 1938 fire truck in front of the Tama fire station. There is a ladder attached to the side behind... |
| Date: | 07 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Jack Rickert is painting words "1946 Pop. 2800" on the side of a Fourth of July Garden Queen Float. Above the painted sign the float is decorated with a pi... |
| Date: | 09 18 1961 |
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| Description: | Two painters sit on an elevated, wooden plank suspended between two ladders. They are painting the side of the "County Power and Light Co" building. The bu... |
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