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Garbage Truck

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Description: The Greendale Department of Public Works used this truck to collect trash.
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Taylor's Super Service Gas Station

Date: 01 06 1939
Description: View from street towards two men filling the gas tanks of a car and truck at Jack D. Taylor's Super Service Station, 751-753 Williamson Street. This Art De...
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Eastside Storefronts

Date: 06 14 1927
Description: Storefronts of the Wisconsin School of Music, East Side Variety Store and Hess Grocery Market. Owned by the Hess family, this property was located at 154 A...
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Licari Tire Co. Office

Date: 10 26 1934
Description: A driver is sitting in Licari's panel truck, next to the small art deco office of Licari Tire Company, where another man is posing at the door, 767 West Wa...
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Milkman Exiting International Model M-2 Milk Truck

Date: 1933
Description: Milkman delivering bottles of milk and other dairy products to a residential home from an International Model M-2 milk truck. The truck was owned by Pevely...
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International Model S-26 Truck Delivering Coal to Residential Home

Date: 1930
Description: Worker unloading coal from a truck onto a chute on Seneca Parkway in Rochester. The chute appears to be leading to a residential home. However, there is c...
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International Coca-Cola Delivery Truck

Date: 06 12 1928
Description: Driver delivering cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) to a residential neighborhood in an International delivery truck.
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Decorated International Heavy-Duty Coal Truck

Date: 1929
Description: International heavy-duty coal truck owned by Pocahontas Coal Company decorated. Placard on truck reads: "International motor truck. All steel shapes, plate...
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Unitarian Church's Work Day

Date: 1950
Description: People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc...
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Man Delivering Ice with International Truck

Date: 1930
Description: Man removing a block of ice from an International truck for delivery in a residential neighborhood. The house in the background is at 462 Seneca Parkway. T...
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Madison Consumers Co-Operative Dairy

Date: 05 05 1937
Description: Seven milkmen standing beside dairy delivery trucks — all Internationals — parked in front of Madison Consumers Co-operative Dairy, 102 S. Dickinson Street...
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Installing Rock Wool Insulation

Date: 11 21 1936
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.
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Manor Dairy Truck

Date: 12 27 1934
Description: Manor Dairy truck and uniformed driver with milk in front of the dairy office in Kennedy Manor apartment building, 1 Langdon Street.
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Installing Rock-Wool Insulation

Date: 12 10 1934
Description: Two men and Home Insulation of Madison, Inc. truck in front of W.J. Sheppard, 2524 Chamberlain Avenue, house, shown installing Johns Manville rock-wool ins...
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Keating Garage Exterior

Date: 08 18 1934
Description: Keating Garage and Ford Sales and Service, 14-16 N. Fairchild Street with the Keating tow truck and employees in front of the garage doors.
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletes Digging at Camp Randall

Date: 08 06 1931
Description: Five University of Wisconsin-Madison athletes (L. to R. Walter Gnabah, Russel Rebholz, George Wright, McClure Thompson, and William Eller) shoveling dirt a...
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Athletes Digging

Date: 08 06 1931
Description: Five University of Wisconsin-Madison athletes (L. to R. Walter Gnabah, Russel Rebholz, George Wright, McClure Thompson, and William Eller) shoveling dirt a...
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Policeman at Fair Oaks Avenue Accident

Date: 06 30 1931
Description: Policeman and another man (possibly Aldro Wasley) on Fair Oaks Avenue at scene of automobile accident. There is a University Floral Co. truck in background...
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Farm Utilities Co.

Date: 02 16 1931
Description: Farm Utilities Company, located at 124 S. Butler Street. (A Trachte building.)
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Dixiana Parade

Date: 08 21 1930
Description: Automobiles, and the Esther Beach Band on back of a truck, in a parade on the 300 block of East Johnson Street promoting the movie "Dixiana."

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