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Farmall Cub Engine Assembly Line

Date: 1948
Description: Factory worker tightening capscrews on a Farmall Cub engine with an electric high frequency wrench at International Harvester's Louisville Works.
Photograph

Keogh Portrait

Date: 
Description: Full-length studio portrait of a soldier named Keogh standing in military uniform.
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Rosa Parks Interviewed by Anne Braden

Date: 05 31 1960
Description: Rosa Parks being interviewed by Mrs. Anne Braden, editor of the "Southern Patriot," at Braden's home.
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Milk Cooler Display

Date: 11 13 1936
Description: John M. Schmitt (probably an International Harvester dealer), right, shows a customer a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler on display. The sign above the ...
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Pepsi-Cola Bottles Stored in Milk Cooler

Date: 11 16 1936
Description: A McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler used to store bottles of Pepsi-Cola at Springer Brothers.
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Milk Cooler

Date: 11 16 1936
Description: A man places a milk can into a McCormick-Deering 6-can milk cooler on the farm of Mrs. Joe Schmidt.
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Anne and Carl Braden in Newsroom

Date: 09 1948
Description: Newsroom of the Louisville Times, where Anne (typing, at the right), and Carl Braden (left), worked as journalists.
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Anne Braden

Date: 10 1962
Description: Anne Braden in the SCEF (Southern Conference Education Fund) office where she edited the organization's newsletter, The Southern Patriot.
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Stearns Company Strike

Date: 1975
Description: Informational meeting for the employees of the Stearns Coal and Lumber Co. at about the time the company was sold. During the 1920s and 1930s the company w...
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Anne Braden and Ben Chavis

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Description: Anne Braden and Rev. Ben Chavis at an SOC (Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Human Welfare) event. Braden and Chavis were founding members a...
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Milk Cooler at Walter & Thompson

Date: 1937
Description: Two men standing next to a McCormick-Deering cooler at Walter & Thompson, an International Harvester dealership. The man pointing to the cooler is P.H. Tho...
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Laying Wire for Radio Station with a T-20 Crawler

Date: 1937
Description: Three men laying wire in a forested area for W.H.A.S Radio. One of the men is operating an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor).
Poster

Pennsylvania Railroad Travel Poster: In Old Kentucky

Date: 1930
Description: An original lithograph promoting Kentucky and the Pennsylvania Railroad through an artist's depiction of two men dressed in buckskin, wearing raccoon hats ...
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Daniel Boone Monument

Date: 1906
Description: Low view of a bronze statue of Daniel Boone standing atop a pedestal of rough-hewn rocks. Leafy tree limbs form the backdrop.
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Cub Cadet Engines

Date: 06 1961
Description: Rows of Cub Cadet lawn tractor engines lined up inside International Harvester's Louisville Works factory.
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Woman and Daughter Drinking Milk

Date: 1976
Description: A woman and her three-year-old daughter are getting glasses of milk from a container in a refrigerator. The mother is dressed in a pant suit, while her dau...
Drawing

Louisville and Portland Railroad

Date: 02 15 1830
Description: Increase Lapham's drawing of a railroad tunnel and railroad tracks.
Photograph

Cub Scouts Exiting an IH School Bus

Date: 1990
Description: Color photo of a group of Cub Scouts and their scout leader exiting an International school bus and entering the Anchorage Public School. A woman is drivin...
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Sarah Harder

Date: 
Description: Sarah Harder speaking at Midway College for a daylong event titled "Report from Nairobi." Ms. Harder was an advocate for equal rights.
Map or Atlas

Plan of Fifty Thousand Acres of Land Situated in Lincoln County in the State of Virginia

Date: 1784
Description: Map showing fifty thousand acres of land in what will later become Kentucky, broken up into parcels labeled 1 through 50. No features are labeled, but the ...

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