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Akron Works Office Employees

Date: 1914
Description: Office workers at International Harvester's Akron Works. The works originally belonged to the Aultman & Miller Buckeye Company until it was bought out by I...
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Man Talking on Telephone

Date: 07 1927
Description: Man using a telephone mounted to an interior wall. The photograph was taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. It was used to...
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Manchester's Department Store at Christmas

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Description: Santa Claus talks on a telephone at a Christmas display at Manchester's Department Store.
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O.C. Harris

Date: 08 11 1944
Description: O.C. Harris talking on the telephone in the office of his business, which is the O.C. Harris Company, 1217 East Broadway, Dane County's only twenty-four ho...
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Man at Desk

Date: 1895
Description: A man, possibly John Forbes, working at a roll-top desk in his office over the old Fire Hall. A dog is sitting on a chair in the lower left. Books on the s...
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Men Install Pole with Modified 10-20 Industrial Tractor

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp...
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Construction Worker Talking on Telephone

Date: 1969
Description: Construction worker talking in a telephone booth.
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City Line Department

Date: 12 16 1926
Description: Workmen with the City Line Department use an International Model 63 truck to erect a power line or telephone pole near a bridge.
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Wisconsin State Journal Former Employee

Date: 02 25 1948
Description: Mrs. Joseph (Betty Pruett) Farrington, former police reporter, recalls work days with Russell B. Pyre, current reporter. She was a police reporter from 191...
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Two Salesmen in an Office

Date: 1936
Description: Two men, one talking on the telephone with his feet on the desk and another reading paperwork, work at a disorganized desk. Possibly a photograph from an i...
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Man at Hotel Registry Desk

Date: 1946
Description: A man wearing a suit and hat is checking in and signing a piece of paper at a hotel registry desk. A suitcase is sitting at his feet and a hotel employee i...
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New Police Telephone Switchboard

Date: 09 06 1949
Description: A Madison police officer at the new police telephone switchboard at the police station, 14 South Webster Street.
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First Official Dial Telephone Call in Madison

Date: 09 30 1949
Description: Shorewood Hills fire chief Chris Bertelsen receives the first official dial call on Madison's new 100 percent dial phone service. The sign on the wall abov...
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Highway Dispatcher's Office

Date: 1940
Description: Workers for the American Transportation Company in a highway dispatcher's office.
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Milt Polland on Phone

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Description: A record photograph of Polland when Gauer was working for him during the war.
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General Office at Manhattan Truck Branch

Date: 05 29 1937
Description: Elevated view of men sitting at desks near large windows in the general office of International Harvester's Manhattan truck branch. Additional men and wome...
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International Truck Booth at Indiana State Fair

Date: 1935
Description: A man stands behind a booth in a tent at the Indiana State Fair. The booth is outfitted with a microphone and telephone. A poster on the front of the booth...
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Woman Standing over Bound Man

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Description: A woman standing over a man who has been tied up and laid across boards resting on two sawhorses. In the background is a telephone on a half wall, and a ta...
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Manager and Man Reading in Office

Date: 1949
Description: T.R. Moudler, manager of IH San Antonio motor truck district sitting next to "Jess." The men are likely in the office of an International Harvester dealers...
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Covering the President

Date: 1956
Description: Rear view of a parade of reporters in open cars following President Eisenhower on a rural road in Iowa. The President is standing in an open car at the rig...

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