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| 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: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Martin W. Torkelson, regional director of the State Planning Board, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Ch... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Emerson Ela, attorney, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railro... |
| Date: | 11 25 1947 |
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| Description: | San W. Orr, attorney, speaking at a hearing on the possibility of putting West Washington Avenue under the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroa... |
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| Description: | Pedestrians on sidewalk. The street is full of rubble and appears to be under repair or construction. Construction workers are also working in the street. |
| Date: | 07 03 1926 |
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| Description: | International Model S truck parked at a "Socony Motor Gasoline" pump. The bed of the truck is piled with trunks, suitcases and furniture. |
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| Description: | Meeting in Tennessee during CIO period, on a street. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A man is driving a construction truck in the shadow cast by what appears to be an elevated highway. A sign for the "Brooklyn Battery Tunnel" is on one of t... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A construction worker wearing a red hard hat crouches next to an open manhole in the street. |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | A shadow of the photographer, Richard Quinney, is visible on the street near the construction site. On the curb are cement blocks and sawhorses. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of a man in a uniform sitting in an International Harvester R-195 semi-truck outfitted with a Space Saver cab. The truck is parked along a... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Dr. Butler, editor of the Progressive Farmer, and W.C. Mauley, manager of International Harvester's Memphis branch, stand together for a portrait on... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | View of the intersection of East Washington Avenue at Butler Street, towards the offices of the Capital Times newspaper. |
| Date: | 09 1954 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Wisconsin Avenue from the Wisconsin State Capitol balcony. At the lower left, the demolition of old City Hall is in progress, which began ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A man works on a tractor in the doorway of the Farmers Grain and Elevator Company, an International Harvester dealership and service station. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | A driver sits behind the wheel of an International truck loaded with boxes from the Marion Baking Company. The truck is on a cobblestone street with cable ... |
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| Description: | Two men wearing hats, one of whom is carrying a bucket and a tool, walking across the street from a large building. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men use mule-led wagons while working on a residential road. Bricks are piled high on either side of the street. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Men using mule-drawn wagons as they prepare to pave a street with bricks. A pile of shovels is lying in the dirt in the foreground. |
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