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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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Construction Of Streetcar Tracks

Date: 1905
Description: Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square...
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Railroad Crew and Boy on Handcar

Date: 1872
Description: Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor...
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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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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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Man Using Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Elevated view looking down at a man using a Farmall Cub tractor to belt-drive a corn sheller. The man is inside the open doorway of a farm building bent ov...
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No.30 Corn Sheller with Farmall B Tractor and Power Take Off

Date: 1947
Description: Farmall B tractor parked just outside an open-sided farm building. The tractor is powering a corn sheller inside the barn, where a man is standing and shov...
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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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Man Driving Farmall Tractor Pulling a Lime Spreader

Date: 10 07 1927
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a Farmall tractor pulling a lime spreader in a field. A man is standing in the lime spreader holding a ...
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New Ranger Station

Date: 06 19 1936
Description: One man is working on a ladder near the side door of a one and one half story, masonry block building with five garage bays. There are two men on the right...
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Construction Site

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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...
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Repaving & Widening Preparations for Washington Street

Date: 1948
Description: View down sidewalk along Washington Street facing east. Excavation is going on between S. 8th and S. 9th Streets. A crew is mixing concrete and doing work ...
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Washington Street Repaving & Widening

Date: 1948
Description: Crews of the Vinton Construction Co. are laying a 20 foot wide concrete slab in front of the northeast corner of Washington and S. 9th Streets. A truck is ...

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