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| Date: | 1961 |
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| Description: | International Scout truck with dump box loading refuse into a garbage truck in a suburban neighborhood. |
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| Description: | The Greendale Department of Public Works used this truck to collect trash. |
| Date: | 06 30 1975 |
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| Description: | Senator William Proxmire taking a lunch break during a workday spent collecting trash. These events kept Proxmire in touch with his Wisconsin constituents,... |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage on South Hamilton Street being viewed by two children during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for International "Severe Service Refuse" trucks. Features color illustrations of a garbage truck and a dump truck. |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage in bushel baskets on Capitol Square during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage in the 300 block of West Main Street during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across water toward several buildings on shoreline, two with large smokestacks. A man is standing on the shore, and two people are in a boat on the ri... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Two men are scattering barium carbonate rat poison in a city dump located at the end of Fern Drive off Highbury Road near University Avenue. The land was o... |
| Date: | 08 17 1926 |
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| Description: | A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor equipped with pneumatic tires and Hercules vacuum brake system to pull a specially designed semi-tr... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Men load boxes onto an International D-300 truck owned by the City of Santa Ana. The truck was used for garbage removal. One man stands in the bed of the t... |
| Date: | 05 17 1938 |
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| Description: | Three men load garbage onto the back of an International DS-35 truck owned by the City of Louisville, while two men sit in the truck's cab. The truck is on... |
| Date: | 01 03 1939 |
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| Description: | A man empties a garbage can into the back of an International D-300 truck parked in a residential neighborhood near houses. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | A man is emptying refuse into an International R-180 garbage truck parked in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of a vacant lot littered with garbage and weeds in a residential area. Across the street in the background are what appears to be a row of apartment b... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men emptying a metal garbage can into the bed of an International Model AW-2 truck. The lettering on the truck reads: "Garbage Dept. P... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Three men empty metal garbage cans into the bed of an International truck parked along the side of a residential road. |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | "Guelig Construction workers put in a disposal system for Widmer Cheese Factory. Workers are from left, Ray Guelig, Herb Sellnow, Bob Guelig, Edgar Guelig,... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | City street in Puerto Rico, seemingly at dusk. Shop windows are brightly lit, and a man leans against one while reading a newspaper. Other men are having t... |
| Date: | 04 27 1929 |
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| Description: | View across cobblestone street towards men loading what appears to be an International garbage truck on a city street. Two men are lifting a can up towards... |
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