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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A crewman on a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier signals to the pilot of an incoming U.S. Marine Corps CH-34 Choctaw helicopter. The landing was photographed by M... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Farmers are unloading bags of seed from the back of an International L-series pickup truck in a field. A McCormick Farmall H tractor with attached grain dr... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | View towards a man in a field operating a McCormick Farmall C tractor with front-mounted cultivator against a bright blue sky strewn with fluffy white clou... |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | View of a man plowing a field with a McCormick Farmall 450 diesel tractor. Mountains are in the far background. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick 220 cotton picker. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | View down road towards the Fond du Lac lighthouse, built in 1933. There are cumulus clouds in the sky, and pine trees are lining the shore. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Trucks mounting a steep grade in the testing track at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Inte... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International Harvester through the 1970's to test... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Grist mill. Two people with bicycles on bridge near mill. |
| Date: | 1957 |
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| Description: | Lotus beds on Mississippi River in the foreground and middleground. Bluffs are in the background. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Armory tower with crenels and narrow arched windows. The building is on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus and is also known as the Red Gym or Old ... |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Babcock Hall on University of Wisconsin-Madison campus. A bicycle is parked near the entrance in the grass. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | View towards a man using a McCormick Farmall Super C tractor with a C-254 cultivator. The original caption reads: "C-254 two-row cultivator on Super C with... |
| Date: | 05 20 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Stanford University's Don Chandler, who won the shot put competition at the Big Ten-Pacific Coast intercollegiate track meet by setting a meet ... |
| Date: | 06 20 1950 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Dick Attlesey, of the University of Southern California, who captured the 120-yard high hurdles in 13.8 seconds, setting a meet and Camp Randal... |
| Date: | 07 26 1950 |
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| Description: | Ricky Pollock of Arlington, Virginia, steps off the plane at the Madison airport for a visit with his grandparents, Charles and Anna Pollock. |
| Date: | 08 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Class E fleet sailboats get underway in the first official test of the preliminary races of the 49th Annual Regatta of the Inland Lakes Yachting Associati... |
| Date: | 08 24 1950 |
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| Description: | "The Albatross IV," a sailboat owned by Terry Lentz of Pewaukee, is shown with its crew during one of the races of the 49th Annual Regatta of the Inland La... |
| Date: | 08 24 1950 |
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| Description: | Class A and Class E sailboats are shown maneuvering to round a buoy in strong wind during one of the races of the 49th Annual Regatta of the Inland Lakes Y... |
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