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| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon depicts a giant bolt of lightning striking the shadow of a man whose body appears li... |
| Date: | 08 19 1949 |
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| Description: | The intersection of South Hamilton Street and Law Parkway (now John Nolen Drive) streets, site of a "blind" railroad crossing. Includes small sign on a tre... |
| Date: | 02 22 1950 |
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| Description: | Three rows of beds on the third floor of the Dane County Home For The Aged. The room had only one exit leading to a wooden porch and a wooden fire escape. ... |
| Date: | 02 05 1951 |
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| Description: | Dane County Traffic Lieutenant Arden C. Pope teaches grade school students the rules of riding bicycles and walking safely on highways. |
| Date: | 02 05 1951 |
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| Description: | As Paoli grade school children watch, Lieutenant Arden C. Pope, head of the Dane County traffic safety division, presents badges and belts for school patro... |
| Date: | 04 1926 |
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| Description: | View of a manure pile near a barn. Used to demonstrate the dangers of placing waste too near to a house. A rooster is standing atop the pile, and a bicycle... |
| Date: | 09 04 1923 |
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| Description: | View of two wall-mounted fire extinguishers inside a building on the farm of Professor Holden. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of a woman tying a scarf around her head and knotting it under her chin. The photograph is one of a series demonstrating how to use... |
| Date: | 01 1928 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a man wearing a wide-brimmed hat stopping an automobile at a stop sign on a dirt road as a truck approaches from the opposite direction. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A farmer is standing on the edge of a wooden wagon pitching hay into a running thresher, demonstrating an unsafe operating position. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | John Esch, sitting behind the wheel of an automobile, adjusting his eyeglasses while smoking a tobacco pipe. Photograph taken for International Harvester's... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man driving a team of four horses while standing on the front standard of a wagon loaded with what appears to be hay. Photograph taken for International ... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | Interior view of a farmhouse, taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department and used to illustrate the dangers of a cluttered room.... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman stooping to remove an electrical cord from in front of a vacuum cleaner. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man holding a metal instrument approaching a tree stump to inspect why a dynamite blast did not go off. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man unhitches horses from a wagon. Photograph taken for International Harvester's Agricultural Department to illustrate the dangers of leaving one tug un... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a hat and smoking a tobacco pipe using a rag to wipe the windshield of an automobile. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of a wagon yoke repaired by wire. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is reaching into the moving packer arms of a grain binder, while another man is driving a team of horses pulling the machinery across a field at the ... |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is reaching in between reels on a grain binder hitched to several horses on the farm of Peter Ricker. |
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