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M-62 Wrecker

Date: 1952
Description: View towards men using an M-62 wrecker to lift a piece of construction equipment. The specifications of the M-62 are as follows: 179" WB Truck, Medium Wrec...
Photograph

M-62 Wrecker Moving Truck

Date: 1952
Description: Color photograph of members of the 73rd Armored Field Artillery using an M-62 wrecker to remove a damaged truck from a field at Fort Hood. The specificatio...
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M-139 Transporting Bridge-Building Unit

Date: 1952
Description: Color photograph of an M-139 truck transporting members of a bridge-building unit and construction materials to the bank of a river in a wooded area. The s...
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San Antonio Branch House Building

Date: 1930
Description: Exterior view of the San Antonio branch building of the International Harvester Company. The front of the building appears to be a modern addition to the b...
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IH Amarillo Branch House

Date: 1925
Description: Exterior view of International Harvester's Amarillo branch building, as seen from across an intersection. Several automobiles are parked at the curbs along...
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IH Houston Branch House

Date: 1925
Description: A Farmall tractor and an automobile are parked alongside the curb running past International Harvester Company's Houston branch building. Signs on the buil...
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Two Men with Cattle

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: Two men wearing hats stand in a pasture while holding two dairy cows. Farm buildings and a water tower are in the background. The original caption reads "L...
Photograph

Mission Supply Company

Date: 1912
Description: View down a town street featuring Mission Supply Company. Children sit outside the store on the front step.
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Street Scene

Date: 1918
Description: View of storefronts lining a town street. A brick building housing City Drug Store and Tom W. Crutcher & Co. General Insurance bears a date of 1918.
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Delta Labor Agency Recruiting Trailer

Date: 1969
Description: Side view of Delta Labor Agency recruiting trailer in South Texas showing advertisement in Spanish seeking men, women and families to pick tomatoes in Cali...
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Migrant Laborer Hiring Stall

Date: 1969
Description: Migrant laborer hiring stall in a dirt parking lot next to a protruding pipe and litter on the ground. The stall is a metal frame structure with a thin ben...
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Harvesting Tomatoes in Rio Grande Valley

Date: 1970
Description: Migrant farm workers harvesting tomatoes in the Rio Grande Valley.

Obreros Unidos (United Workers) grew in Wisconsin during the 1960s and had deep roots ...

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Child Worker Bearing Grapefruit

Date: 1969
Description: A child worker wearing a short sleeve plaid shirt, dark pants and no shoes is carrying grapefruit from a Texas grove on his shoulder. He is looking into th...
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Mother and Siblings at Texas Wedding

Date: 1970
Description: From left to right, a sister, mother and brother attending a wedding celebration in Mercedes, Texas. The woman on the left is wearing an empire waist sleev...
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Tomato Harvester in South Texas

Date: 1970
Description: A woman holding a bucket and wearing a covering over her head, a checkered long sleeve shirt, pants, and gloves. She is standing behind crates of Roma toma...
Photograph

Transporting Migrant Workers

Date: 1970
Description: Chicano migrant farm workers being transported to a field on a cold Texas winter morning on the back of a truck.

This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-n...

Photograph

Harvesters Recruitment Billboard

Date: 1970
Description: A recruiter's billboard advertising work available for pickle harvesters.

This photograph is a part of Wisconsin-native David Giffey's series "Struggle ...

Book or Pamphlet

Wichita Motors Company Trademark

Date: 1920
Description: Back cover of a Spanish-language booklet advertising Wichita tractors. The back cover features an illustration of a Native American profile, the Wichita Mo...
Print

Wichita Tractor Company Advertisement

Date: 1919
Description: Advertisement for the Wichita tractor featuring a side view photograph of the machine and text reading: "The Wichita. Note carefully the accessibility of a...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Welcome Mr. Kennedy

Date: 12 22 1963
Description: An advertisement placed in "The Dallas Morning News" on the morning of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The ad attacked Kennedy's foreign an...

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