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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Man unloading a side of beef from a "Maple Leaf Hams and Bacon" truck outside a butcher shop in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The truck is an Intern... |
| Date: | 05 12 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of employees in front of the McKay Nursery Co. building. |
| Date: | 10 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Gardner Bakery truck and driver parked in front of Madison Machine and Engine Company, 844 E. Washington Avenue. Taken for Diamond T Truck Sales. |
| Date: | 10 27 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction crew working on Chicago & Northwestern Railroad crossing, showing the W.R. Baker Tavern at 601 E. Wilson Street, and the Pa... |
| Date: | 05 29 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior of Klinke Hatchery, 1918 Winnebago Street, with employee pouring water into tray of chicken cages, and bags of Vig-o-ray starting mash in view. |
| Date: | 09 19 1930 |
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| Description: | RKO movie advertisement on an Ed Klief Transfer Line truck. The U.W. Meat Market at 728 University Avenue is in the background. |
| Date: | 08 19 1929 |
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| Description: | Workers lay pipe and repave University Avenue, looking east along the 2400 block. |
| Date: | 07 11 1929 |
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| Description: | Fleet of 19 3-F Steam Laundry trucks and one automobile with drivers standing beside the vehicles in front of office and plant at 731-747 E. Dayton Street. |
| Date: | 1903 |
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| Description: | Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad locomotive #1100, a class I engine, built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works in 1873 and originally numbered #199. Th... |
| Date: | 1873 |
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| Description: | John Parman's Blacksmith, Wagon & Carriage Shop. A large group of men, including workers in leather aprons, are standing with carriages and wagon wheels ou... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of west side of N. Water Street between E. Buffalo and E. Chicago Streets, featuring the Joys Building, with a contruction area in foreground... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | A man in a white smock stands near an International Harvester model G (or model 61) motor truck that is backed up to a loading dock at Swift & Company. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | International Model G-61 truck operated by Valentine Furniture and Piano Moving and Storage. The truck is loaded with crates, possibly containing pianos, a... |
| Date: | 11 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting at the wheel of an International Model "63" truck owned by the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company. The slogan: "Most Miles Per Dollar" is p... |
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| Description: | Nine men in aprons lined up in front of a brick horseshoe shop. One of the men is sitting on a horse. The sign above the door reads: "C. Deising, Horseshoe... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Man with an International I-4 tractor with a Hough front-end broom (street cleaner). A building in the background bears a sign reading: "Checker Cab". |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | The Shell filling station, 341 State Street, as workers are starting to tear it down. The station, built in 1924 and at one time judged the second most bea... |
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