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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Mal Whitfield approaches the finish line of a track race at the University of Wisconsin Stadium. |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal fibre (fiber) at a factory or mill in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Comp... |
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| Description: | Workers processing sisal at a factory in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Company as part of its twine producti... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workers, mostly female, hanging bundles of sisal on wires on a plantation in the Yucatan(?). The plantation was likely run by the International Harvester C... |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal in large piles at an International Harvester facility in the Philippines. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Robert Fischelis and H.A.B. Dunning examine the War Memorial at the American Pharmaceutical Association Headquarters building. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor in a fall setting. A hunter, Mr. Vinson E. Gritten, is holding up a dead rabbit for William Foreman and Junior Scott (b... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from street of O.N. Falk's Drug Store, on Main Street. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Wisconsin State Capitol from the south side of Monona Bay. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of University of Wisconsin-Madison's upper campus from Lincoln Terrace down Bascom Hill. The Wisconsin State Capitol can be seen in the dista... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Camp Randall Stadium and Field House. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Workmen overhauling the engine of a Wisconsin Central airplane in the airline hangar at Truax Field. Formerly known as Madison Municipal Airport, the field... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Beechcraft 18 in the former Air Force hangar at Truax Field. This photograph was taken shortly after Wisconsin Central Airlines moved its headquarters fr... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Wisconsin Central Airlines pilot walking toward a twin-engine Lockheed 10A airplane parked on the runway at Truax Field. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The ceremony marking the first Wisconsin Central Airlines flight at Madison. Margaret "Mickey" Morey, the wife of Howard Morey, is about to cut the ribbon.... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Man harvesting cotton with a McCormick-Deering M-12-H cotton picker. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A British soldier directs the truck driver as German workers prepare to load a shipment of coal on a U.S. Air Force C-54 airplane at Fassberg Airfield. Fro... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | The reason for the official name for the Berlin Airlift, "Operation Skytrain," is suggested by this photograph of C-47 transport airplanes unloading at Tem... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | A Northwest Airlines passenger plane sits on the tarmac. |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a hockey team from International Harvester's Hamilton Works in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. |
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