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Experimental Model Steam Car

Date: 07 02 1946
Description: Experimental model steam car, taken from right side, for the Keen Manufacturing Company, 2661 East Washington Avenue.
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Phoenix Proving Ground Truck Testing Headquarters

Date: 1953
Description: Headquarters building for truck testing at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International H...
Book or Pamphlet

50 - Man Weighing Angora Rabbit

Date: 1943
Description: Man in lab coat weighing angora rabbit with scale outdoors. Text on page says, "Gewichtskontrolle".
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Child on Scale

Date: 1897
Description: A young girl wearing a coat and hat is standing on a scale that is chained to a post near a building.
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G.W. Estes and Children with Frames and Honeycomb

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Description: G.W. Estes and two young girls, standing in a storeroom. Hive boxes with frames are on the floor. Along the walls are shelves stacked with square boxes of ...
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International Experimental Steam Tractor

Date: 1921
Description: Left side view of an International Harvester experimental steam tractor.
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Faye Geise with Aqua Form

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Description: Faye Geise, wearing a bikini, is standing outdoors and posing with Aqua Form, a local invention. She is standing on colored gravel next to a building with ...
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Buddha Head and Pagoda

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Description: Sid's backyard with Asian-themed, concrete-cast sculptures titled "Monumental Oriental Head" of a Buddha (with dimensions of 110" x 45" x 78"), "Multi-Tier...
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Pumpkins at Farm Stand

Date: 1967
Description: Pumpkins, gourds and Indian corn on display at a farm stand. A womand and two children are standing near a man who is weighing produce on a scale under a r...
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Birge and Juday

Date: 1925
Description: Limnologist Dr. Edward Birge (left) and Professor Chauncey Juday posing together outdoors at what is probably the lake research laboratory in Trout Lake.
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Remote Control Car

Date: 1920
Description: Outdoor view of a car, built by two University of Wisconsin students, which can be driven remotely.
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Highway 41

Date: 05 1939
Description: View down median of road towards a truck parked on the scales of a weigh station in the center of Highway 41 just north of the Wisconsin/Illiinois state li...
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Experimental Disk Harrow

Date: 07 11 1924
Description: Right side profile view of a man driving a tractor pulling an experimental weighted disk harrow. Buildings are in the background.
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Proving Ground

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Description: Caption reads: "Close by International Harvester Company's mammoth new motor truck engineering building and laboratories is the Fort Wayne proving ground, ...
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Bacteriology Laboratory

Date: 1935
Description: View looking down slope towards the Bacteriology Laboratory on the shore of Trout Lake. Trees are around the small, wood sided building, and the lake is in...
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Two Men in Truck

Date: 04 13 1921
Description: View towards two men sitting in a truck loaded with boxes parked along the side of a brick building. The truck is on a wooden platform that may be a scale.

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