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| Description: | The Greendale Department of Public Works used this truck to collect trash. |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | James L. Clarke (left) city health inspector, and Lewis B. Kelly (right) president of the Solvit Chemical Corp., are shown as they prepare to scatter the b... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Two men are scattering barium carbonate rat poison in a city dump located at the end of Fern Drive off Highbury Road near University Avenue. The land was o... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Three men standing in a junkyard with piles of wheels, chairs, and other wooden items in the background near the side of a building. The ground is littered... |
| Date: | 08 17 1926 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor equipped with pneumatic tires and Hercules vacuum brake system to pull a specially designed semi-tr... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Men load boxes onto an International D-300 truck owned by the City of Santa Ana. The truck was used for garbage removal. One man stands in the bed of the t... |
| Date: | 05 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Three men load garbage onto the back of an International DS-35 truck owned by the City of Louisville, while two men sit in the truck's cab. The truck is on... |
| Date: | 01 03 1939 |
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| Description: | A man empties a garbage can into the back of an International D-300 truck parked in a residential neighborhood near houses. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Three young children standing in a backyard in very poor condition, including the lack of a lawn, exposed trash piles, and other litter. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A man is emptying refuse into an International R-180 garbage truck parked in a residential neighborhood. |
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| Description: | Barry, an avid recycler, searching through trash container. |
| Date: | 04 27 1929 |
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| Description: | View across cobblestone street towards men loading what appears to be an International garbage truck on a city street. Two men are lifting a can up towards... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Four men gathered outdoors. Two sit on stoops of houses while two stand in the dirt pathway. More homes are visible in the background. There is a garbage o... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Two workers are placing refuse in a garbage truck. One is an African-American man in a jacket, hat, and gloves and carrying a trash can. The other man is f... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A garbage truck is backed up and emptying refuse into what is likely an incinerator. A man is standing at the open driver's door, and another man is sittin... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing and talking in a plaza in front of a building which has a large sign with the words: "Memphis Tennessee Shelby County" around the seal... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View from lawn in a residential neighborhood of three men pushing trash cans on hand carts towards a garbage truck. Behind the garbage truck is an Internat... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | An African-American man is dumping a barrel of trash into an International Harvester Scout with a dump body driven by another African-American man. They ar... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a D-300-H truck used for garbage collection. Hercules body hydraulic hoist. Rounded sliding covers. Waterproof tailga... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of man carrying a metal trash bin towards a dump truck. A man sits in the driver's seat. Another man stands near metal trash bins behind a fence along... |
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