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Conklin Ice House

Date: 1912
Description: Men harvesting ice at the Conklin Ice House on Lake Mendota. The men are using pike poles to slide the blocks to the conveyor and U-shaped tools to split p...
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Metro Dispatcher for Hazan's Telephone Supermarket

Date: 1958
Description: Dispatcher Bud Hufford loading groceries onto one of seven International Metro trucks owned by Hazan's Telphone Supermarket.
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Northeast View of Power House Coffer Dam at Power Dam

Date: 08 07 1912
Description: Men excavating within the coffer dam. One man is standing on a high piling. Several steam engines at work fill the air with smoke. The high trestle and fou...
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Brewery Tour

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Description: Tour of the Potosi Brewery.
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Loading Truck Crates onto Ship

Date: 05 17 1934
Description: Men loading large "International Motor Truck" crates onto a ship with a crane. Men are working near the ship, and people are watching from the second-story...
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I-4 Tractor with Crane in Waterworks Yard

Date: 1946
Description: International I-4 industrial tractor with crane owned by the Milwaukee Waterworks. Original caption reads: "The city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, purchased thi...
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Railway Express Terminal

Date: 1941
Description: Men unloading trucks at the Railway Express Agency terminal at 11th Avenue and 42nd Street. The original caption reads: "Railway Express Agency terminal at...
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Credit Clerks at Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Co.

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Men sorting packages in the shipping department of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company as women credit clerks work in the background.
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Evanston Coal Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Front three-quarter view of an International KB-7 truck used to deliver coal by Evanston Fuel and Material Company. The truck is parked in front of railroa...
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Rock Crusher at Stone Quarry

Date: 01 11 1938
Description: Simmons stone crusher powered by an International power unit at a State Highway Commission stone quarry.
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Cub Cadets Ready for Shipment

Date: 06 1961
Description: Cub Cadet lawn tractors ready for shipping lined up on a conveyor belt at International Harvester's Louisville Works factory. The machines were boxed with ...
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Bulk Truck

Date: 1958
Description: "This was an early bulk truck for picking up milk. The box had room for a whey tank, to return whey to the farm."
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Milwaukee Western Fuel Company Trucks

Date: 1937
Description: Elevated view of two International D-60 trucks owned by the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company parked near a yard with piles of coal. A large structure towerin...
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Cutting Ice

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Description: View from ice of men from the CCC group at Camp Petenwell cutting ice. Three men stand on the ice on the right. A steep bank surrounds the icy water. Men a...
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Shera Coal & Oil Co.

Date: 06 13 1925
Description: A delivery truck with a pickup bed piled with material is sitting in the open doorway of the Shera Coal & Oil Co. building. A man is sitting in the open do...
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Shera Coal & Oil Co.

Date: 06 13 1925
Description: A man is sitting in the open doorway of the driver's seat of a truck at the Shera Coal & Oil Co. Near the truck is a pile of material, and above and behind...
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Shera Coal & Oil Co.

Date: 06 13 1925
Description: View looking down at a man standing under a hopper near the side of a truck for the Shera Coal & Oil Co. A man is sitting in the driver's seat of the truck...
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Norris Dam

Date: 1934
Description: Elevated, panoramic view of the Norris Dam.
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Pickwick Dam

Date: 08 01 1936
Description: Elevated, panoramic view of the Pickwick Dam under construction.
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Hiwassee Dam

Date: 11 03 1938
Description: Elevated, panoramic view of the Hiwassee Dam.

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