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Tractor Transport

Date: 1937
Description: Men load I-12 tractors onto a train at International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany.
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Rocket Oil Company Fuel Storage Tanks

Date: 10 10 1946
Description: Rocket Oil Company fuel storage tanks at the bulk plant at 204 South Paterson Street. In the foreground is a man on a modern Rocket Oil company truck fill...
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Menomonee Valley

Date: 09 26 1906
Description: Menomonee Valley looking southeast from about N. 27th Street and W. St. Paul Avenue. A Milwaukee Gas Light Co. gas holder is on the left.
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Filling an Oil Truck

Date: 1930
Description: Two men filling an International oil truck used by the Canadian McColl Frontenac Oil Company. Storage tanks and a building are in the background.
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Farmall MV on Farm

Date: 1943
Description: The caption for this photograph states that this Farmall MV tractor is "shown at work on the 2800-acre Triangle Farm near McCall, Louisiana, some 1800 acre...
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Old Style Six Pack

Date: 1977
Description: Tanks at the Heileman Brewing Company decorated to look like a six-pack of beer cans.
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10-20 Industrial Tractor with Boxes

Date: 08 25 1927
Description: An employee of the R.D. Baker Company uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to load batch boxes with sand, cement, and gravel from large overhe...
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P&H Exterior Type "AN" Hoist with Grab Bucket

Date: 1914
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...
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International Truck with Fuel Oil Tank

Date: 1947
Description: Left side view of an International Model KB-10 truck owned by Consumers Company and outfitted with a fuel oil tank. The text on the truck reads: "Better Fu...
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Magnolia Petroleum Company Truck

Date: 1950
Description: A man is driving a truck marked "Mobilgas" which is owned by the Magnolia Petroleum Company. The truck is in front of several large petroleum storage tanks...
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Parked Tractor

Date: 05 20 1962
Description: A parked tractor on a street near industrial buildings.
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Oil Storage Tanks

Date: 04 19 1961
Description: View across a railroad bridge of a group of seven oil storage tanks in a wooded area.
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Railroad Yard

Date: 05 18 1963
Description: View across a railroad yard with several railroad cars and four storage tanks in the background.
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Striking Workers at Lookout Oil

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Description: Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers of America (UPWA) Local 186 listen to talk from union representative Grover Hathaway, who is not in the pic...
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Storage Tanks

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Description: Five large cylindrical tanks. Trees and an industrial metal building are in the background.
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Union Petroleum Company Oil Refinery

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Description: An oil refinery field of the Union Petroleum Company. Caption reads: "Union Petroleum Co's. Oil Refinery at Wellsville, N.Y."
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The Atlantic Refining Company Plant

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Description: A large circular structure stands in the foreground of the Atlantic Refining Company Plant, the first refinery in the United States, established by Charles...
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Okmulgee Oil Refinery

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Description: View of the Okmulgee Oil Refinery. Okmulgee county was known for its oil refineries, producing 45,000 barrels a day from October to December 1919. Caption ...
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Depot and Yards

Date: 1929
Description: View down railroad tracks looking towards the Bagley train station. On the right is a large storage tank. A man is driving a car near the railroad tracks n...
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Townsend Oil Company Truck

Date: 03 17 1925
Description: A man, standing in front of three large storage tanks, is filling the tank on the back of an International Model 63 truck owned by the Townsend Oil Company...

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