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| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Factory workers crate McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractors for shipment at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Original caption reads: "Annually, thousand... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | The Pennsylvania Railroad purchased this innovative steam engine that was built to pull up to 125 loaded cars at 50 miles per hour. |
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| Description: | Locomotive with barrels of cargo, sits on the tracks. The caption reads: "First Locomotive, 1831." |
| Date: | 11 03 1967 |
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| Description: | Workers sort mail into bins in a railroad mail car. |
| Date: | 07 20 1932 |
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| Description: | Group of men sitting on top of railroad flatbed car loaded with culverts. Sign above them reads: "Capital City Culvert Company," 1335 Gilson Street. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View down platform between two railroad trains of men unloading freight onto wagons from a Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway freight car at th... |
| Date: | 06 08 1928 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamship "Spokane" in port loaded with International Harvester tractors. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | International L-185 moving truck owned by United Van Lines parked in a residential driveway. |
| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | Man positioning an International C-110 truck under the wing of an airplane. The truck was owned by Maloney Freight. |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from hill of the freight steamer "Cornucopia" loading hides at the Hammond Brothers warehouse, with Lawrence University buildings on the hill... |
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| Description: | Design in shades of red for 3 cent Wisconsin Centennial postage stamp with farming and industry theme. |
| Date: | 03 21 1986 |
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| Description: | Office and metal warehouse of Potato World, Inc., located on County Highway E near Grand Marsh in Adams County. |
| Date: | 03 22 1922 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul freight station. |
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| Description: | View of the levee with bales of cotton on the wharf. Caption reads: "On The Levee." |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the T.P. Leathers Steamer at dock. Men can be seen loading cargo onto the ship. Caption reads: "A Mississippi Steamer." |
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| Description: | View of a ship in the spring on the edge of the ice five miles off Nome. On shore, sleds and sled dogs are in the foreground. Caption reads: "The first boa... |
| Date: | 04 15 1941 |
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| Description: | Impassible muddy conditions along State Highway 13 between Butternut and Glidden, with a truck of the Flambeau Freight Lines stuck up to its axles. |
| Date: | 09 15 1916 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of train loaded with Chevrolet automobiles. Caption at top reads, "The largest shipment of automobiles ever unloaded in Milwaukee, sold and ... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Two men loading a crate onto an International truck used by the Interstate Transportation Company. The truck's lettering reads: "Waterbury-Pittsfield-Alban... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | An International truck labeled "Kingston's Baggage Line" and piled with luggage trunks pulls out of the parking lot of a Northwestern Line Freight Station.... |
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