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Unloading Bank Vault Door

Date: 07 05 1929
Description: Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch.
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Unloading Bank Vault Door

Date: 07 05 1929
Description: Five men are unloading a vault door from a railroad car onto a truck for the Bank of Wisconsin State Street Branch.
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Cream Wagon

Date: 07 09 1895
Description: Man driving a cream wagon pulled by a team of horses and loaded with dairy products.
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Exterior View of Creamery

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Description: Exterior view of a wooden creamery building, with men and horse-drawn wagons transporting milk cans.
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Horse-Drawn Patent Medicines Wagon

Date: 01 07 1937
Description: A traveling salesman with Willson's Monarch Labs is standing beside the horse-drawn wagon that took him on sales routes in rural Wisconsin. Willson manufac...
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Milkman

Date: 1908
Description: Joseph Pearson, milkman, poses with his wagon and team of horses in front of the Madison High School at the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and Johnson Street.
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Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company Truck

Date: 09 21 1937
Description: A man stands in a lift attached to the bed of an International Model DR-60 truck owned by the Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company. Another man stands atop a rai...
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Starch Factory

Date: 09 28 1895
Description: Elevated view of wagons filled with potatoes parked near a starch factory. In 1895, 125,000 bushels of potatoes were converted into starch. Railroad tracks...
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Widmer Milk Truck

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Description: A man loads a Widmer delivery truck with milk cans.
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Borden Delivery Truck and Driver

Date: 10 01 1982
Description: Elwin "Al" Smith stands in front of his Borden's delivery truck on his last day before retirement. A University of Wisconsin dormitory and a parking lot ar...
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Delivering Fresh Produce

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man and child posing standing next to a wagon pulled by a team of two horses, surrounded by pumpkins and other produce in crates.
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Hauling Fuel Wood

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Description: Outdoor view of a man posing standing behind a sled loaded with wood and pulled by a single horse on snow-covered ground. In the background is a snow-cover...
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Widmer Milk Truck

Date: 1958
Description: "Digging out the milk truck in the Breitag Road."
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Old Milk Wagon

Date: 08 1979
Description: "This old milk wagon will be in Theresa Firemen's parade."
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C.L. Thomas Delivery Wagon

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Description: Outdoor view of a European American man posing sitting on the back of a horse-drawn delivery wagon marked "C. L. Thomas, Orders taken and delivered," pulle...
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Spice Delivery Cart

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Description: Outdoor portrait of a man posing standing next to a wagon pulled by two horses on snow-covered ground. The sign on the wagon reads: "Rawleigh's, Spices, Ex...
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Merchants Hotel

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Description: View from street of two men posed sitting in a wagon full of grain bags and pulled by a team of four horses in front of the Merchants Hotel. L.S.Y. June, t...
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Horse-Drawn Sleigh

Date: 1958
Description: "Erhard Luhn comes to the cheese factory in a sleigh."
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Milk Delivery

Date: 1958
Description: "A sled was used to convey the milk cans. Shown are Ralph Widmer, Bill Breitag, and Ken Reimer."
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Delivering Ice from an International Truck

Date: 07 05 1938
Description: Iceman delivering a block of ice from an International D-300 streamlined truck to an office building in downtown Milwaukee. The man worked for the Wisconsi...

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