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Telephone Line Repairmen with International Service Truck
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Telephone line repairmen preparing to work on a residential line. One is climbing a ladder and the other is setting up a soldering unit. Their International service truck is parked in the background.
August 15, 1929
International Harvester Company
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W012I42
WHi 9662
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Telephone linemen working on scaffolds at different levels on a telephone pole as they install line in a rural area. Their International Harvester truck is parked in the grass nearby.
Man Climbing Ladder
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A man climbing a wooden ladder placed on snow-covered ground. The ladder is leaning against a barn at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
Indianapolis Power and Light Company
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