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| Date: | 12 1946 |
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| Description: | Members of the United Automobile Workers union, Local 75, line up outside the local's headquarters, 308 E. Center Street, to vote on delegates to the union... |
| Date: | 11 09 1941 |
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| Description: | R.F. Lease and Co., 209 East Main Street, company truck, with eleven men standing beside their floor sanders. Other business in view, Madison School Supply... |
| Date: | 05 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of employees in front of the McKay Nursery Co. building. |
| Date: | 08 11 1936 |
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| Description: | Outdoor group portrait of ten male employees of Philgas Co. |
| Date: | 05 29 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior of Klinke Hatchery, 1918 Winnebago Street, with employee pouring water into tray of chicken cages, and bags of Vig-o-ray starting mash in view. |
| Date: | 05 20 1928 |
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| Description: | A man is weighing a bucket on an old scale at the Evans Creamery. |
| Date: | 10 03 1946 |
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| Description: | Inland Lakes Boat Works basement workshop at the Stadium Garage, located at 1501 Monroe Street. The view includes three men and one woman constructing boat... |
| Date: | 07 19 1935 |
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| Description: | Farmers Mutual Auto Insurance Company, 312 Wisconsin Avenue. Original building was the former Joseph Boyd mansion. Contractor for the remodeling job was Fr... |
| Date: | 11 10 1944 |
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| Description: | Madison branch of the Filmite Oil Corporation building (a Trachte metal building), located at 828 East Main Street. Also pictured is W.K. Wilson, warehous... |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste... |
| Date: | 04 19 1921 |
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| Description: | Two men sit in an International Model G-61 truck on a dirt road. The truck was operated by L.P. Torensen's Standard Oil Company, located at 1305 Maple Stre... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Truck on the left is a Model H or Model F, the truck on the right is an International Model G (Later known as a Model G-61) truck. There is a truck driver ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man in a white smock stands near an International Harvester model G (or model 61) motor truck that is backed up to a loading dock at Swift & Company. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | International Model G-61 truck operated by Valentine Furniture and Piano Moving and Storage. The truck is loaded with crates, possibly containing pianos, a... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man leans out of the cab of an International Model G-61 truck parked on an unpaved street in front of a building identified as "garage." The truck has th... |
| Date: | 11 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting at the wheel of an International Model "63" truck owned by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. The slogan: "Most Miles Per Dollar" is p... |
| Date: | 08 10 1926 |
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| Description: | Men loading (or unloading) International Model 63 trucks for the Fountain and Heinzman Company. Slightly elevated view of three drivers sitting in the cabs... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Man with an International I-4 tractor with a Hough front-end broom (street cleaner). A building in the background bears a sign reading: "Checker Cab". |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane involved with the construction of the Long Island Railroad. There is a sign on the crane that... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company half ton single leg gantry crane in a steel operation. There is a driver in a truck beneath the crane, and... |
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