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| Description: | The Greendale Department of Public Works used this truck to collect trash. |
| Date: | 06 05 1971 |
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| Description: | A young Cub Scout member of Pack 86 from Trinity Presbyterian Church hands newspapers he saved to an employee of Shapiro Paper and Metal Co. The task was p... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A boy is standing behind a box of tin cans waiting to be carted to the dump. The boy is holding tin cans hanging from string in his hand. |
| 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: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man pouring ashes from a bucket into a larger metal container. |
| Date: | 04 23 1926 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a dress and bonnet empties a pail of ashes into a refuse pile in the front yard of a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 03 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is looking through a scrap heap full of metal and wooden parts piled beside a shed or barn. |
| 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: | 1956 |
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| Description: | "Guelig Construction workers put in a disposal system for Widmer Cheese Factory. Workers are from left, Ray Guelig, Herb Sellnow, Bob Guelig, Edgar Guelig,... |
| 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... |
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