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International Model A-4 Truck with Trailer in front of Iowa State Capitol Building

Date: 06 28 1933
Description: International Model A-4 semi-tractor with sleeper cab and trailer parked in foreground, with the Iowa State Capitol Building in the background. The truck w...
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International Coca-Cola Delivery Truck

Date: 06 12 1928
Description: Driver delivering cases of bottled Coca-Cola (soda) to a residential neighborhood in an International delivery truck.
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Driver in International Dairy Truck

Date: 09 04 1925
Description: View across street towards a man in the driver's seat of an International Special Delivery dairy truck parked in front of billboards. The International Spe...
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Woman Nursing Lambs with Bottles

Date: 1946
Description: Mrs. Floyd French of Newton, Iowa feeds two orphaned lambs using beer or soda bottles. A Farmall tractor is in the background. According to the original ca...
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International Model D-1 Truck

Date: 05 11 1933
Description: Workers loading barrels of petroleum on an International D-1 truck at an American Petroleum Co. service station.
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Cream Separator Display at Dairy Cattle Congress

Date: 1946
Description: Cream separators stand on display against a backdrop at the Dairy Cattle Congress. The display text reads: "Newest Star in the Milky Way; McCormick-Deering...
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Cream Separator Demonstration

Date: 1930
Description: A group of men and women are gathered to watch two men demonstrate a McCormick-Deering cream separator at A&P Creamery. The cream separator was sold by the...
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Dairying Display at Dairy Cattle Congress

Date: 1931
Description: A mechanical(?) cow standing on a platform demonstrates the use of a McCormick-Deering milker at the Dairy Cattle Congress. There are paintings of agricult...
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Dairy Equipment on Hazen Pettit Farm

Date: 1937
Description: Rooms with bottles, table, canisters and other dairying equipment on the Hazen Pettit farm. Original caption states: "The vat in the foreground is used fo...
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Man Entering Walk-In Cooler

Date: 1940
Description: A man carrying milk bottles stands at the doorway to a walk-in cooler at the Eubanks Dairy.
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Men with Cream Separators

Date: 1925
Description: Two men are posing outdoors wearing three-piece suits. They are standing on either side of a McCormick cream separator. An additional cream separator is ly...
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McCormick-Deering Engine

Date: 08 22 1921
Description: McCormick-Deering 1 1/2 h.p. engine powering a Primrose cream separator, a churn, and a washing machine on the farm of A.L. Bishop.
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Men with Cream Separator

Date: 1925
Description: A man is emptying a pail into a Number 4 electric cream separator in a shed on the farm of John Doanan. Mr. Doanan is standing with a pail in the foregroun...
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Khrushchev's First Hot Dog

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Interviewed outside a meat packing plant near Des Moines, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev pronounced his first American hot dog to be "wonderful, but not...
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IBP Labor Strife

Date: 1965
Description: Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations including the hiring of low paid worker...
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IBP Labor Strife

Date: 1965
Description: Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con...
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International C-Line Truck at Penn Dairy

Date: 1937
Description: A man and woman are loading crates of milk into an International C-Line truck at Penn Dairy Farm. According to the original caption, "Mr. and Mrs. Johhnson...
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Parkers Mill

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Description: View across water with rocky shoreline toward the Parkers Mill. There is a rocky cliff in the background on the left. Caption reads: "Parker's Mill, Mason ...
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Jacob E. Decker & Sons Packing Plant

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Description: A copy of a promotional postcard showing the Jacob E. Decker & Sons packing plant, factories, railroad, and grazing animals. All contribute to the producti...
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Street Scene in the Business District

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Description: View down South Dubuque Street featuring Hotel Jefferson in the distance at left, built in 1913 with a Classical Revival influence. Automobiles, cable cars...

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