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International Truck Billboard

Date: 1918
Description: Billboard for International motor trucks on Diversey Avenue outside of Deering Works. The billboard lettering reads: "Use International for Low-Cost Haulin...
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Street Scene

Date: 1921
Description: View from street of row of shops on along an unpaved street. A car drives on the street. A sign in the distances reads, "Brittingham and Hixon Lumber."
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Locomotive Engine No. 632

Date: 1886
Description: Right side view of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway locomotive engine no. 632.
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Brittingham and Hixon Lumber Company

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior of the Company's lumber yard. A fading sign reads, "order your coal now."
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Basley's Good Lumber Truck

Date: 1937
Description: An International D-2 truck owned by Basley's Good Lumber Company parked in front of the company storefront. The text on the truck reads, "Use Weyerhaeuser ...
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New York Lumber and Panel Company Truck

Date: 07 09 1937
Description: Two men load pieces of lumber onto the bed of an International D-40 truck owned by New York Lumber & Panel Company.
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Burton and Fenton Building Materials Truck

Date: 09 21 1937
Description: Men load what appears to be lumber onto the bed of an International truck owned by Burton & Fenton Building Materials. The truck is parked in front of the ...
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Section of Marquette Suspension Bridge

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Description: "Section of New Prairie du Chien Marquette $1,000,000 Suspension Bridge. Total length 3729 feet. Only suspension bridge on the Mississippi River. Open for ...
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Men Posing in the New Street

Date: 1889
Description: Elevated view of group gathered and posed on a new street. Behind the group is a large pile of lumber, wooden sidewalks, and what appear to be newly-constr...
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Winter View of the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view across street in winter of the McCormick Works Club House. In front of the club house is a man standing on a loaded horse-drawn wagon parked ...
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Winter View of the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Winter view of the McCormick Works Club House. There are building materials for the front walk way near the curb.
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Newly Built Homes?

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view of large, one-story brick building with tiled roof. Another building is in the background on the right. Lumber is piled in the yard in the ri...
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Yawkey-Crowley Lumber

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Description: View from street towards the storefront of the Yawkey-Crowley Lumber Store, at 117 Monona Avenue. The store was on 801 E. Washington Avenue for most of its...
Postcard

Street Scene

Date: 1908
Description: View of a street with a lumber office and a church on the left, and dwellings on the right. A man and a dog are on the sidewalk. A tree-covered hill is in ...
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Truck Driver in International Truck

Date: 08 31 1927
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck parked along a curb. Another man is in the bed of the truck, which has a ladder an...
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Office of Rice Lake Lumber Company

Date: 1890
Description: View across street towards a two-story building, with a sidewalk, low fence and a telephone or power pole in front. There is a widow's walk and a chimney o...
Postcard

Row of Wis. Timber & Land Cos., Lumber Piles

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Description: View of rows of stacked wooden palettes. A wood plank sidewalk is between them. Caption reads: "Row of Wis. Timber & Land Cos., Lumber Piles, Mattoon, Wis....

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