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| Date: | 06 18 1927 |
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| Description: | View of a fleet of delivery trucks lined up in a row. There is a bridge and buildings in the background. Signs painted on the trucks read: "Davidsons, Iowa... |
| Date: | 06 18 1927 |
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| Description: | View of right side of the "Des Moines Dairy Products Co." delivery truck. In the background is the Iowa State Capitol building. |
| Date: | 06 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front right of a man sitting in a delivery truck. Painted on the side of the truck is a sign that reads: "Davidsons, Iowas Largest ... |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Italian Bee Company. Dealers in Queens, Bees, Hives, Honey Extractors, &c. "Queens Imported by every Steamer." Des Moines, Iowa. From... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of a Des Moines United Packinghouse Workers of America local picket outside a Woolworth's store to demonstrate their opposition to segregation of W... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Farmers and their supporters picket at the National Farm Institute to protest farm prices and their poor economic outlook. |
| Date: | 06 19 1927 |
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| Description: | Man posing with an International tour bus in front of the Iowa State Capitol building. The sign painted on the side of the bus reads: "Seeing the US." |
| Date: | 09 04 1925 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 02 1934 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men gathered for a McCormick-Deering farm machine demonstration on grounds across from the Iowa capitol building. Equipment on view includ... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | International Harvester tent and exhibition at the Iowa State Fair. Includes workers filming Iowa's first television show and a high school brass band ente... |
| Date: | 06 28 1933 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 06 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of an International Harvester Company branch house building. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Bridge and rail yard near an International Harvester branch house in downtown Des Moines, Iowa. The branch house building is in the distance. |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of International Harvester's Des Moines branch building. The structure features five stories and arched ceiling-height windows surround the ... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | International K-7 tractor and trailer (semi-truck) operated by Allied Van Lines. The truck was owned by Ware Transfer & Storage of Des Moines, Iowa. |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | The 'Howdy' Roberts Band performing inside an International Harvester exhibit at the Iowa State Fair. Band members are playing a clarinet, trumpet, accordi... |
| Date: | 09 08 1925 |
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| Description: | Brown Jug School students lined up along a fence outside a school house. One of the boys is wearing a cowboy hat and bandana. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | An International D-300 van owned by the Davidsons Company parked outside the store. |
| Date: | 07 13 1925 |
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| Description: | A man using a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor outfitted with a Lessman loader to load a manure spreader. Another man is standing on the front of the loader... |
| Date: | 09 22 1959 |
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| 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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