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| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for International trucks, featuring a stylized silhouette of a streamlined truck. Also includes the text: "In Today's Truc... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | This map shows highways, roads, a proposed annexation, street car lines, bus routes, local motor bus lines, a new high speed interurban, railroads, a propo... |
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| Description: | View towards a flock of gulls flying along the rocky shoreline of Lake Michigan. A speed boat is traveling on the water on the left, and other boats are do... |
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| Description: | Sid's illustration showing the relationship between film, a camera lens and the light controls for aperture and shutter speed in photography. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Charles "Speed" Holman and Ed Ballough, the Laird Team, after the New York to Los Angeles air race. Minnesotan Charles Holman earned his nickname by racing... |
| Date: | 05 31 1968 |
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| Description: | Primary drive that was manufactured in the Special High Speed Division. This drive was later purchased and used by the Vertol Division/Boeing Corporation. ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon appears under the heading: "Fifth Speed (Safety First)". The cartoon depicts a man p... |
| Date: | 04 23 1970 |
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| Description: | Camping site with Volkswagen vans and tents. People are milling around the camping area of the Sound Storm music festival. "Speed Kills" is painted on the ... |
| Date: | 02 17 1952 |
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| Description: | Six new records were established in the Madison speed skating finals. Pictured left to right are skaters who led their divisions in the annual city champio... |
| Date: | 01 29 1956 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of winners in the girls division of the Madison speed skating finals at Vilas Park. Front row, left to right: Kristine Thomas, Alice Jean D... |
| Date: | 01 28 1971 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: (Photo#W-5564) - The new Comanche model of the Scout 800B vehicle from International Harvester Company. Shown at the 1971 Chicago B... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | International Model S speed truck carrying reindeer and men dressed as clowns, Eskimos, and Santa Claus during a winter parade. A blanket on reindeer reads... |
| Date: | 08 17 1937 |
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| Description: | Semi-trailer truck delivering 200 new 1937 super speed L.C. Smith typewriters to Jones Typewriter — Business Furniture Co., 506 State Street. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison entrance to Arboretum. Two stone walls flank the road. Two informational signs, including the speed limit, are past the e... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Advertising brochure for Parlin & Orendorff's Tip-Top single speed cotton planters. The inside spread features a color illustration of a planter and the ca... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Waterloo Boy Two-Speed 12-25 kerosene tractor. The advertisement features a side view illustration of the tractor surrounded by small... |
| Date: | 02 14 1957 |
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| Description: | A male employee stands near a screw press washer. The speed reducer shown is a Right Angle, Double Red. Later purchased and used by the American Boxboard C... |
| Date: | 09 16 1968 |
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| Description: | A cement mill drive that was manufactured in the Speed Reducer Department of the Falk Corporation. This drive was later purchased by Fuller Company and use... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Man riding a Whitney 6-12 light-weight gasoline tractor. Placard reads "r.p.m. 1300, plowing speed 1.75-2.5 m.p.h." The tractor was sold in small numbers b... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The Graf Zeppelin airship, 776 feet long, could travel at a speed of up to 80 miles per hour, powered by five 550 horse-power Maybach engines. Hydrogen ga... |
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