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Cemetery for War Dead from Iwo Jima

Date: 03 1945
Description: The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart...
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Telephone Company Truck

Date: 05 20 1960
Description: Black Earth telephone company maintenance truck in front of the local office.
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John S. Taylor's Model H Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: A man, probably John S. Taylor, shoveling gravel into an International Model H Truck. The truck is parked near a railroad box car. Photograph taken by Berg...
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Model D-300 Truck

Date: 1938
Description: A man is sitting behind the wheel of an International Model D-300 truck used by the Montreal Tramways Company. A man in the back of the truck is holding a ...
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Ready-Mix Concrete Mixer

Date: 03 01 1927
Description: A man stands on a piece of equipment holding a shovel to move the contents of an International truck owned by the Ready-Mixed Concrete Corp. into a wheelba...
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Men Digging a Pit

Date: 1907
Description: Several men are standing and posing next to a large pit. The men, dressed in work clothes, are equipped with shovels. There is a truck backed up to the pit...
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International Model HS-104 Dump Truck

Date: 1929
Description: Group of men working with a Bucyrus-Erie power shovel and dump truck. Hall-Scott powered dump truck with chain drive. 4 Cylinder, Overhead Cam, Hall-Scott ...
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Curb Painting

Date: 06 06 1965
Description: A city worker painting a curb yellow in a no parking zone. The location is West Dayton Street, looking towards North Randall Avenue. Fire Station #4 is in ...
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Telephone Linemen

Date: 1928
Description: Group portrait of four telephone linemen standing together, three of them wearing pole climbing spikes (or spurs). The man leaning on the pole is Carl Pete...
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Men Working on Grounds for Baseball Stadium

Date: 07 03 1926
Description: Group of men working on the grounds of a baseball stadium. One man is sitting in a truck which has a painted sign on the side that reads: "D.S.C. City of N...
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Truck for Laying Asphalt

Date: 10 01 1928
Description: A man is standing at the front of a truck parked on a ramp. Further back on the right a group of men are working laying asphalt with large machinery. A gro...
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Truck Making Delivery to Construction Site

Date: 08 23 1928
Description: View towards a truck parked near a house, with a man sitting in the driver's seat. The side yard is a construction site. A man is working in the yard among...
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Pot Hole Repair

Date: 01 10 1984
Description: Two men are shoveling steaming asphalt from the rear of a truck. Caption reads: "Portage County Highway Department workers Victor Peters (left) and Arleigh...

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