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"Petticoat Derby" Protest

Date: 08 30 1965
Description: Press release photograph of a woman holding a picket sign reading "unfairly difficult driving problem" in mock protest of the difficulty of events involved...
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Packinghouse Workers Strike

Date: 04 1948
Description: As an empty truck is entering the Cudahy Packing Company plant in Kansas City, Kansas, striking United Packinghouse employees threaten the drivers by appea...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Bringing in the Sheaves

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a farm scene with giant produce. A man and a woman stand on top of a giant ear of corn, resting on a horse-drawn cart. Around them are mor...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Our Watermelons Grow Big

Date: 1908
Description: Photomontage of a horse-drawn cart that is hauling giant watermelons broken down in the middle of a road. The driver of the cart inspects the broken wheel ...
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International Harvester Transfer Agency

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester Transfer Agency building with several men standing on a platform surrounding it. Railroad tracks are located on...
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International Delivery Truck

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: International delivery truck used by the Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Company. A man is standing behind the truck on a loading dock.
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Loading Delivery Trucks

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Men loading delivery trucks used by Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Company.
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Emery Bird Thayer Shipping Department

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Men loading small packages into rolling carts in the shipping department of Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Co.
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Loading Area of Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Company

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Slightly elevated view of men sorting packages in the shipping department of Emery Bird Thayer Dry Goods Company.
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Credit Clerks at Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Co.

Date: 10 18 1937
Description: Men sorting packages in the shipping department of the Emery, Bird, Thayer Dry Goods Company as women credit clerks work in the background.
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Tour Car

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Description: View from street looking toward a touring car filled with tourists outside of a building lobby with a roof over the sidewalk. Caption reads: "Seeing Kansas...
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American Eagle Model A-101

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Description: Left side view of an American Eagle Model A-101, a light 2/3-seat biplane, sitting in a field. There is a man sitting in the rear cockpit wearing an aviato...
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American Eagle Model A-101

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Description: Right side view of an American Eagle Model A-101, a light 2/3-seat biplane, sitting in a field. The tail identifier reads: "5839." Four men are posing with...
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American Eagle Model A-101

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Description: Aerial left side view of an American Eagle Model A-101 in flight at the same elevation of the airplane in the foreground. The pilot is in the front cockpit...
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American Eagle Model A-129

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Description: Left side view of an American Eagle Model A-129, a three-seat open-cockpit sports/utility biplane, sitting on a runway. A man is sitting in the rear cockpi...
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Man Driving International Truck

Date: 07 13 1928
Description: Three-quarter view from front of a man driving a truck down a street. The sign on the driver's side door reads: "Kansas City Journal Post." Two signs on po...

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