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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | International Titan 45 tractor pulling a 42,000 pound load on an attached wagon car in front of a warehouse owned by Merchants Transfer and Storage. The Ti... |
| Date: | 01 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Semi-trailer truck with lettering on the side: "Speed Queen Washers Ironers, Barlow & Seelig Mfg. Co., Ripon, Wis." There are storage tanks in the backgrou... |
| Date: | 01 09 1939 |
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| Description: | Fiore Coal and Oil Company building, 620 W. Mifflin Street. |
| Date: | 10 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Seven coal delivery trucks and six drivers parked in front of eight different coal silos (Kathleen, Enos, St. David, Orient, Waukeegan, United, Pocahontas ... |
| Date: | 05 20 1936 |
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| Description: | Five coal silos at C.E. and P.A. Roth Inc., sand and gravel company, at 1208 Roth Street. |
| Date: | 05 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Wide angle view of 5 coal silos at C.E. and P.A. Roth Inc., sand and gravel company, 1208 Roth Street. |
| Date: | 05 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Breese Stevens Athletic Field, with lights on tall poles, and a chain link fence along the sidewalk. View looking toward E. Washington Avenue with Simon Br... |
| Date: | 07 01 1927 |
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| Description: | View across street owards the Klean-Rite Auto Laundry Inc., Pennco Greasing Service at 739 East Mifflin Street. It was apparently not a car wash, but an au... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A Pawling & Harnischfeger type "AN" hoist with a grab bucket and an enclosed trolley over railroad tracks with a train car underneath it. The crane is stam... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | An oil tank burns in Tulsa, a city that had earned the title "Oil Capital of the World" and whose population grew to 72,000 by 1920. The Texas Company was ... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Deerfield Creamery Company. Two cars are parked in the lot in front of the factory. There are storage tanks in the background on the r... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Olsen's Mill (Wayne Feeds) on Hwy 49, just north of Hwy 21. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated-view illustration of the John Lauson Manufacturing Company factory. The company made Lauson tractors and Lauson Frost King gasoline engines. |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | View over railroad tracks towards the railroad water tank. |
| Date: | 05 15 1931 |
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| Description: | Composite of two negatives of Breese Stevens Athletic Field with lights on tall poles. On the left, view is of the Simon Brothers Wholesale Grocery Warehou... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Left side profile view of men with 12-25 Horse Power tractor parked in a cobblestone street. The tractor is pulling a trailer with a large tank that has a ... |
| Date: | 09 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Two oil delivery trucks and a tank on a trailer for Home Oil Co. parked in front of oil storage tanks. |
| Date: | 09 02 1925 |
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| Description: | Two oil delivery trucks and a tank on a trailer for Home Oil Co. parked in front of oil storage tanks. |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of three delivery trucks parked at oil tanks. A sign on the largest tank reads, in part: "Cities Servic_." A man is filling up one of the tan... |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| Description: | A man is filling an oil delivery truck from a storage tank. A sign on the largest tank reads, in part: "Cities Ser..." |
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