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| 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: | 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: | 11 05 1930 |
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| Description: | A Valvoline Oil Company tank truck made by Diamond T is parked awaiting a job. |
| Date: | 07 11 1930 |
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| Description: | View of a Texaco bulk station and storage tanks from across the railroad tracks at 919 E. Main Street. |
| Date: | 10 09 1929 |
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| Description: | A Chicago & North Western Railroad Bucyrus crane installing a large tank at a Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Company Pyrofax plant, at 130 Fair Oaks Avenue. |
| Date: | 08 06 1929 |
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| Description: | Texas Company U.S.A. (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant, 919 E. Main Street. Text on print reads: "Texas Company, Capitol Oil Co." |
| Date: | 08 06 1929 |
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| Description: | The Texas Company USA (Texaco) office building and storage tanks bulk plant at 919 E. Main Street. The view is from the east, with Texaco railroad tank car... |
| Date: | 03 04 1960 |
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| Description: | Harold Greenlee (right) and B.J. McCarthy examining a recently-delivered International model R-185 truck. Mr. Greenlee was the transportation superintenden... |
| Date: | 12 29 1944 |
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| Description: | Man standing on bulk tanks at Cities Service Oil Company Plant, 815 East Main Street, where an explosion killed welder Harold Michelson. |
| Date: | 10 10 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A man stands in front of an International Model F (or 31) truck advertising Standard Oil Company's Polarine, "Burn Perfect Oil." American flags are mounted... |
| Date: | 05 11 1947 |
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| Description: | Firemen at the scene of the Doyon Lumber Company fire, 638 West Mifflin Street. The Fiore coal silos are visible in the background. |
| Date: | 09 26 1906 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Storage Tank #2. A large, rounded tank with a conical roof. Another tank is directly behind. A large brick building is on the right. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | West side of filter building. Pipes are stacked on the right side of the building, and part of a storage tank can be seen on the left. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 20 1962 |
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| Description: | A parked tractor on a street near industrial buildings. |
| Date: | 04 19 1961 |
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| Description: | View across a railroad bridge of a group of seven oil storage tanks in a wooded area. |
| Date: | 03 17 1925 |
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| 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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