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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Worker leveling gravel with a McCormick-Deering Farmall M tractor and a no. 7 angle dozer at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm and testing facility. |
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| Description: | Color bird's-eye map of the University of Wisconsin-Madison as it was midcentury, with two co-eds, several photographs of campus landmarks around edges, an... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | First Farmall M tractor manufactured at International Harvester's Doncaster Works (factory) in England, Great Britain. The tractor is loaded on the bed of ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Manager's house on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "View of the manager's home on the IH plantation in Cuba. T... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Men using an Adams #5 1/2 Road Grader to work on an urban street. The grader was owned by the State Paving and Construction Co. Original caption states: "G... |
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| Description: | Men using a Number 3/2 Adams Motor Grader for road construction on Pine Street in Philadelphia. A laundry store is on the corner. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Shriners on parade in Chicago. The men are dressed in middle eastern costume for an "Oriental Band" from the "-ktash Shrine Temple" [name obscured]. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | This color map includes historical descriptions of select areas and a short article on the history of Wisconsin. The major highways in the state shown on t... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Front cover of International Harvester Company's annual report, featuring a color photograph of a semi-truck driven along a road through rocky terrain. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View from side of hill looking down at an International truck and a camel on a narrow mountain road in Afghanistan. A river runs along the road in the back... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | This 1949 tourism brochure for the Hayward region includes a directory of members of the Hayward Lakes Resort Association, color illustrations, descriptive... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of factory buildings and grounds at International Harvester's Louisville Works. Roads, fields and trees surround the factory. In the foreground... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | This map traces the route taken Chief Black Hawk from Vernon County, Wisconsin east to Waukesha County and south to Rock County, Wisconsin in 1832. Towns, ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View down center of a road in winter after a fresh snow. Pine trees are along the right, and deciduous trees are on the left. |
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