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Proxmire Work Day

Date: 06 30 1975
Description: Senator William Proxmire taking a lunch break during a workday spent collecting trash. These events kept Proxmire in touch with his Wisconsin constituents,...
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Garbage Truck

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Description: The Greendale Department of Public Works used this truck to collect trash.
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Violet Feeney

Date: 12 29 1947
Description: Mrs. John (Violet) Feeney demonstrating that she can not cram any more garbage into her garbage can because the city has not collected her garbage for nine...
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Uncollected Rubbish in Downtown Madison

Date: 06 15 1948
Description: Uncollected garbage in the 300 block of West Main Street during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union.
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Trash Disposal

Date: 03 14 1949
Description: Mrs. Edith Trowbridge, 4202 Mandan Cresent, pulls a ring on a string which opens a trap door to a metal-lined slide to a basement trash box under her sink ...
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D-300 Truck with 4 Yard Dump Body

Date: 1940
Description: View of man carrying a metal trash bin towards a dump truck. A man sits in the driver's seat. Another man stands near metal trash bins behind a fence along...
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Greendale Garbage Removal

Date: 01 03 1939
Description: A man empties a garbage can into the back of an International D-300 truck parked in a residential neighborhood near houses.
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Refuse Truck

Date: 2013
Description: The driver of a Harter’s Refuse truck throws a bag of trash into his truck. He is holding one trash can, and two others sit near a garage. He is wearing a ...
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Cleaning at Summerfest

Date: 07 05 1989
Description: A man with a backpack-powered leaf blower is blowing trash along the ground between picnic tables. Another man with a similar blower is in the background. ...

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