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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of Little Norway buildings near a hill. |
| Date: | 02 21 1947 |
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| Description: | After hooking a wing into a huge tree, an airplane piloted by Carl Anderson crashed onto a town road in Fitchburg near the Sam McGaw farm. The impact tore ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1947 |
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| Description: | Abandoned army shooting range at Truax Field, with Police Officer Lester Shore in the lower right foreground. |
| Date: | 11 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Neighbors of the Pomputis family and newspaper reporters wait on a highway near the farm where the confessed murderers were hiding. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A crew of men laying sewer pipe with a Hough payloader. Original caption states: "Hough Payloader laying sewer pipe sections weighing 200 lbs each. Equipme... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | View towards a man using an International Diesel TD-24 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) with a BE bullgrader to work in a field. The original caption reads: "... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men load logs from a clearing onto the bed of an International KB-5 Pulpwood Special truck owned by the Johnson-Manville Corporation. The truck had a 1... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man in a shed releases coal from a chute into the back of an International KB-11-F truck owned by the Coal Service Corporation. Another man is in the drive... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man uses an excavator to fill an International KBS-7 dump truck with coal. Behind the excavator is a steep hill with trees on top. The coal is being handle... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men use axes to fell a large tree in a wooded area. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Men using a crane to load logs onto the trailer of an International W-6564-OH truck. A man is swinging from the crane's cable over the logs on the truck. A... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Man operating a McCormick-Deering M-11-H cotton picker in field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine. The picker is mounted on a Farmall tractor. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Left side view of a man driving a McCormick-Deering cotton picker M-11-H in a field. Decals and/or stencils are on the machine. The picker is mounted on a ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A man loads a burlap bag into an International Auto Wagon parked beside a farmhouse. Other farm buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 09 25 1947 |
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| Description: | "Nick Koll and his son pick corn near Bancroft Road." |
| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | View across road and fields towards three wooded hill peaks. A roadside fence is in the foreground. Caption reads: "D.A. 36-268 — Three peaks on Hy.71 betw... |
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