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| Date: | 05 05 1932 |
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| Description: | The U.S. airmail radio operator at Royal Airport in Madison. During the 1920s Madison had two airports: the Madison Airport (aka the North Street Airport) ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1944 |
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| Description: | Harry G. Marsh, passenger agent for the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, seated at his desk. Mr. Marsh was responsible for troop movements to and from Trua... |
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| Description: | Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Exterior of International Harvester's General Office for Great Britain. The building included a showroom, service station, and parts and machine warehouse.... |
| Date: | 08 09 1927 |
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| Description: | Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp... |
| Date: | 12 16 1926 |
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| Description: | Workmen with the City Line Department use an International Model 63 truck to erect a power line or telephone pole near a bridge. |
| Date: | 04 09 1935 |
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| Description: | J.H. De Fee, shop foreman, and W.R. Thomas, superintendent, sitting behind a desk at the City of Jacksonville Garage. |
| Date: | 10 03 1935 |
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| Description: | Two men sit at a desk near an International station wagon (possibly in an International truck dealership). Original caption reads: "City Sales, Dan Strong ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Workers for the American Transportation Company in a highway dispatcher's office. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Showroom of the Long Beach branch house featuring International trucks and parts on the showroom floor. There is an enlarged photograph or mural displayed ... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a parade of reporters in open cars following President Eisenhower on a rural road in Iowa. The President is standing in an open car at the rig... |
| Date: | 06 1967 |
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| Description: | Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 700 block of State Street. Lake Street parking ramp and University of Wisconsin Extension building are vi... |
| Date: | 02 1978 |
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| Description: | "Beck Motor Sales. This fine 1917 Dodge Roadster is on display in the showroom. Reuben Beck (with phone) and his brother, Gerald, (center) are the propriet... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Traffic control room of Aero Mayflower Transit Company of Indianapolis. Men and women are seated at desks in an office setting. A few of the employees are ... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | A woman working on a Goldwater campaign airplane. She is wearing a Goldwater hat, and a stuffed elephant is sitting on the desk with a Goldwater pin attach... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A man sits behind the counter of the Mt. Victory truck stop general store. Shoes and boots are arranged on the counter in front of him, and various items a... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | A trucker uses a pay phone in a phone booth inside the Mt. Victory service plaza while taking a break from the road. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Interior, with four men, of a small office, very likely a railroad station office. |
| Date: | 2012 |
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| Description: | Trixie, a young woman texting while standing on the sidewalk on 7th Street. She is wearing eyeglasses, a houndstooth patterned coat with jeans, and sheepsk... |
| Date: | 11 10 2015 |
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| Description: | Veronica Macias, a reporter for TMJ4, standing across the street from the Milwaukee Theater. She is holding a microphone in one hand and a smart phone in t... |
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