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| Description: | A cross with the inscription "Morts Pour La Patrie." Captioned "Dead for the Country," a familiar sign in the valley of the Marne. |
| Date: | 04 23 1906 |
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| Description: | Grain binder on the floor of an IH factory, probably the McCormick Works. At the top is a directional sign for employees in three different languages; Czec... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Page describing in German the International 624 tractor, lifting an elephant. The tractor is owned by the Bouglione Circus. |
| Date: | 02 16 1928 |
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| Description: | Two men are sitting in the driver's seats of two trucks with sacks piled in the trucks beds. The signs painted on the trucks are in Russian. |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| Description: | Tidy materials storage area, with fire escape sign in English, Czech and German. There is a brick arch in the foreground, and across the room is another ar... |
| Date: | 10 1906 |
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| Description: | Tidy materials storage area, with fire escape sign in English, Czech and German. Lumber is stacked along the left and right, and an arched doorway leading ... |
| Date: | 10 15 1906 |
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| Description: | Manufacturing area, with fire escape sign in English, Czech and German. |
| Date: | 08 1907 |
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| Description: | Work area, with metal machines, and a fire escape sign in three languages at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 09 03 1912 |
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| Description: | View towards a Reaper outdoors in the yard, set up on a saw-horse. There is a Russian name on the Reaper. In the background is a brick factory building. |
| Date: | 04 27 1916 |
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| Description: | Harvester Thresher packaged for shipping outdoors in factory yard. The crates are labeled in Russian. A backdrop is behind the crates. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | UW-Madison sociology professor Edward Alsworth Ross poses between two men. Behind them is a building with a sign that reads: "[?]: ten thousand-year law/[?... |
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