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| Date: | 05 20 1960 |
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| Description: | Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office. |
| Date: | 07 1938 |
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| Description: | Grasshopper bait mixing station at Ellsworth. |
| Date: | 07 21 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers toiling in the sun on the roadside, as a part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). As a program of the New Deal, it was provided to create j... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Future District Court Judge William Sachtjen, wearing an apron and holding a broom. He is standing behind a 7-Up sign. Sachtjen worked at Droster's Grocery... |
| Date: | 07 1908 |
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| Description: | Workmen with teams of horses excavate for the new Mercantile Store, later the M.M. Smart Store. |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car. |
| Date: | 12 16 1936 |
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| Description: | A man places a bag onto the bed of an International C-1 truck owned by the Chicago Rock Island Railroad. The truck is marked with the text "No.9" and "Wate... |
| Date: | 10 22 1927 |
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| Description: | Men stand on and beside the porch or loading dock of an International Harvester (Deering) dealership in South Africa. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | Two men chop wood beside a wooden shed at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. One man raises an axe while steadying a piece of wood with ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction site surrounded by buildings in what appears to be an industrial area. A sign on the building on the left side of reads: "W... |
| Date: | 12 18 1922 |
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| Description: | A man is using a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to assist in clearing land in a residential area. Several other men are standing in the background hold... |
| Date: | 03 17 1925 |
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| Description: | An International Model 43 truck owned by Whitmier & Ferris Company parked along the bank of a river where men are constructing the framework to a billboard... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program." |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men load large pieces of coal onto the bed of an International D-30 truck from the open door of a railroad boxcar. There is a storage building in the b... |
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| Description: | Men at a railroad station awaiting the arrival of a train in Fremont (later Pray). There is snow on the ground. Two men are standing on a hand-powered rail... |
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| Description: | Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Lumber camp group, W.H. Rogers Lumber Co., near Nashville. |
| Date: | 1906 |
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| Description: | Albert Worel, Frank Zeman and Jacob Stangel are standing in front of the brick and wood-frame buildings of their York St. hardware store. The company's del... |
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| Description: | A construction site with a view of the excavated foundation and the street level. At the street level are buildings, people, and horse-drawn wagons. One ma... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A woman and a man are working on a road construction crew, with a dump truck full of sand behind them. They are wearing work clothes and hard hats. In the ... |
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