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Franklin D. Roosevelt Tours the Allis-Chalmers Plant

Date: 1940
Description: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil, and other officials touring the Allis-Chalmers plant.
Photograph

Memorial Union Terrace

Date: 1940
Description: Summertime view of people at tables on University of Wisconsin-Madison Memorial Union terrace, looking out to canoes and sailboats on the lake. In the back...
Photograph

Aldo Leopold

Date: 1940
Description: Caption on negative sleeve: "Aldo Leopold and son Luna (standing); Mrs. Leopold and two daughters Nina and Estella (kneeling). 'Shack' in background." The ...
Poster

International D-Line Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1940
Description: Advertising poster for International trucks. Features a color illustration of a D-line truck hauling a large section of aqueduct with a reservoir in the ba...
Poster

International De Luxe Delivery Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1940
Description: Advertising poster for the International delivery trucks. Features a color illustration of a De Luxe delivery trucks "with All-Steel . . . Streamlined Metr...
Photograph

Sportsmen with International D-15-M Station Wagon

Date: 1940
Description: Three sportsmen with shotguns and hunting dogs around an International D-15-M station wagon ("woody"). The photograph may have been staged for advertising ...
Photograph

Loading Sacks with Farmall A Tractor and Wagon

Date: 1940
Description: Farm manager R.M. Hawse standing in a Weber Wagon loaded with bags. The wagon is hitched to a Farmall A tractor. The bags are labeled "concrete cement" but...
Photograph

WD-6 Diesel and Farmall A Tractors

Date: 1940
Description: Farmer Leo Sucharski on his new WD-6 diesel tractor. Mr. Sucharski is talking to C.A. Reef, an International Harvester farm equipment dealer from Gasport. ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Model D-40 and DS-40 Trucks

Date: 1940
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for 1940 International Model D-40 and DS-40 trucks. Features a color illustration of lumber workers loading a truck.
Book or Pamphlet

International Delivery Trucks

Date: 1940
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1940 line of International delivery trucks featuring a color illustration of a "streamlined" Metro truck in ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Model D-15 Trucks

Date: 1940
Description: Advertising brochure for International Model D-15 delivery trucks. Features an image of a driver unloading linen from a delivery truck owned by Atlas Linen...
Photograph

"The Wizard of Oz" Munchkin Coroner

Date: 1940
Description: Meinhardt Raabe, dressed as the Coroner from "The Wizard Of Oz," shaking hands outdoors with a man wearing a hat and coat. Behind them is the Oscar Mayer W...
Photograph

Bow Hunter and Deer

Date: 1940
Description: Man in a cardigan and knit hat holding a bow and arrow poses with a dead deer on the hood of a Chrysler.
Photograph

International D-30 Armored Truck

Date: 1940
Description: International D-30 truck with a silver streamlined armored body built for Brinks, Inc. A man is sitting the driver's seat.
Photograph

International D-30 Armored Truck

Date: 1940
Description: Armed officer stepping inside an International D-30 armored truck owned by Brinks, Inc.
Photograph

View of Gays Mills

Date: 1940
Description: View of Gays Mills from a bluff overlooking the town. A man is sitting on a fence in the left foreground.
Photograph

Man along Railroad Tracks

Date: 1940
Description: A man (maybe a railroad worker or a tramp) standing along a railroad track next to a small cooking fire. Railroad cars are in the background.
Photograph

U.S. Coast Guard Station

Date: 1940
Description: Station Tower is left of center, with open garage to its right, and more of the building to the left.
Photograph

'Electro Motive' Train

Date: 1940
Description: A man in a suit and hat is standing on the side of a train engine in a train yard. Railroad employees can be seen in and on the train, and a group of men a...
Print

Advertisement for Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer

Date: 1940
Description: Advertisement produced for Pabst Blue Ribbon beer featuring a man wearing a suit and hat, supposedly at a sports event, excitedly holding a cup of beer. Th...

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