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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitche... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Harbor in Marinette at sunset. Boats are docked at the sides of a canal. Smoke pours from smokestacks of a facility in the distance. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | International DR-500 cement truck with 94-inch wheel base owned and operated by Ireland and Lester Ready Mixed Concrete. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Men working on combines (harvester-threshers) on an assembly line at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and w... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal fibre (fiber) at a factory or mill in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Comp... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing sisal at a factory in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Company as part of its twine producti... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Mechanic taking apart a tractor engine in the service department of the Snake River Equipment Company, an International Harvester dealership. An Internatio... |
| Date: | 10 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Mechanics repairing truck engines in the service department of an International Harvester dealership. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Beechcraft 18 in the former Air Force hangar at Truax Field. This photograph was taken shortly after Wisconsin Central Airlines moved its headquarters fr... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Worker unloading steel beams from the back of an International D-300 truck at night. The truck was owned by Beals-McCarthy & Rogers Co., a wholesale hardwa... |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three young girls, (L to R): Beverly Peterson, Virginia Gullickson, and Joane Aaby, with an old iron bed donated for a WW II scrap drive during MacArthur W... |
| Date: | 04 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Sprayguns and compressors for painting automobiles at Winnebago Auto Replacement Company, 103 North Park Street. |
| Date: | 02 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Madison Gas & Electric Company, showing metal floor and stairway, windows and beam arrangement, 115 South Blount Street. |
| Date: | 02 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Madison Gas & Electric Company. View from above of machinery to be removed, top floor of the generating plant, 115 South Blount Street. |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Interior of Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company with workmen and equipment, 754 East Washington Avenue. Large road grader in background. |
| Date: | 07 26 1945 |
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| Description: | Workshop of Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company, without workers, 754 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 01 1945 |
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| Description: | Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company workshop with four workmen and equipment, 724 East Washington Avenue. Tractors are in the background. |
| Date: | 01 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Hospital heating building at Truax Army Air Field, from the west side. |
| Date: | 01 22 1943 |
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| Description: | View of pumping units in the hospital heating building at Truax Army Air Field. |
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