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Armour and Company Packard Truck

Date: 1915
Description: A 1915 Packard Truck owned by Armour and Company. Its body was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company.
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Side View of a Ford Truck

Date: 1914
Description: A 1914 Ford truck, the truck body was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company.
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Simmon's Company Packard Truck

Date: 1915
Description: A 1915 Packard Truck owned by the Simmons Manufacturing Company. The body was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company.
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Packard 2-Ton Truck

Date: 1915
Description: A Packard 2-ton truck owned by the Chain Belt Company. Its body was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company.
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A Small Ford Truck

Date: 1914
Description: A 1914 Ford truck, the body of which was produced by the W.S. Seaman Company.
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Highway Commission Truck

Date: 1921
Description: Highway Commission dump truck photographed outside the Heil Company factory in Milwaukee. The truck was a Nash four-wheel drive model with the body built ...
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Welding a Milk Truck

Date: 1949
Description: Welding a milk truck at the Heil Corporation in Milwaukee. The Heil company was founded by German-born Julius P. Heil in 1901. As the Heil Rail Joint Wel...
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Enola the Welder

Date: 02 1943
Description: Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o...
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Deep Rock Service Station

Date: 1938
Description: View across street towards Harry Rodin's service station at the intersection of North 7th and West Galena. People are standing at the corner near the bus s...
Postcard

Milwaukee Mail Truck

Date: 1909
Description: Milwaukee's first mail truck, here referred to as an "auto car." The date comes from a similar postcard that is postmarked. Caption reads: "Auto Car in Ma...
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Milwaukee Farmers Market

Date: 1941
Description: Milwaukee Farmer's Market during the late 1930s. A customer carries produce purchased at the market.
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Carnival Scene at the Fair

Date: 1936
Description: Midway area of the Wisconsin State Fair, showing a truck advertising peanuts at 5 cents in the center background.
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Lumberyard

Date: 
Description: A lumberyard at about E. Lincoln Avenue and S. Burrell Street in Bay View, looking west to St. Josaphat's Basilica.
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Kearns Equipment Inc.

Date: 1930
Description: E.H. Barnes truck parked in front of the Kearns Equipment Inc., building, 3539 W. State Street.
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Truck on Country Road

Date: 1930
Description: E.H. Barnes truck parked on road.
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Schlei-Nelson Co. Tow Truck

Date: 01 20 1926
Description: A parked tow truck of the Schlei-Nelson Company of 3026 North Avenue.
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Service Station on Corner

Date: 10 10 1939
Description: View across intersection towards a man standing next to automobile at a service station at the corner of W. Libson Avenue and W. Sherman Boulevard. The Cla...
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Cream Separator

Date: 09 20 1923
Description: Two men ready a cream separator from Milwaukee Works to be transported to Hinsdale by airplane. One man is standing in the bed of a truck.
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Boring Mill Table

Date: 02 14 1961
Description: Two men crouch atop of the large gear, while another stands at the side overseeing the lift. This gear was purchased and used by the Ladish Company of Cuda...
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S.S. Santa Cruz Propeller

Date: 07 18 1966
Description: Propeller of the S.S. Santa Cruz. Falk caption reads, "Photos taken for reference in study of propeller reversing characteristics for SUN Marine red...

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