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International "Red Baby" Truck Advertising Poster

Date: 1923
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering service featuring a color illustration of a "Red Baby" farm truck. The company offered a $1,000 prize to the deale...
Poster

Advertising Calendar for McCormick-Deering Line

Date: 1924
Description: Advertising calendar for the McCormick-Deering line of farm machinery featuring an artistic rendition of man driving a "Red Baby" farm truck on a snowy roa...
Photograph

International Gas Truck Refueling Airplane

Date: 08 10 1929
Description: Workers refueling an airplane from an International gas truck as a small crowd is looking on. The airplane was owned by Western Canada Airways. The truck w...
Photograph

Refueling a Tri-Motor

Date: 1936
Description: Refueling a Ford Tri-Motor airplane. Because gasoline truck hoses did not have pumps, airplanes were refueled by filling 5-gallon cans and then lifting the...
Photograph

Hill Crest Farm Auto Truck

Date: 1915
Description: A man is sitting behind the wheel of a truck used on Hill Crest Farm for carrying dairy and farm products to market. Farm buildings are in the background.
Photograph

International G-61 Oil Truck

Date: 05 1921
Description: A man drives an International Model G-61 truck on a rural road with power lines. The truck was operated by G.E. Hutchinson's Standard Oil Company business.
Photograph

International Truck on Rural Drive

Date: 04 19 1921
Description: A man drives an International truck down a dirt road near a fence. The truck is loaded with what appear to be coils of wire fencing. The truck is likely a ...
Photograph

Livestock Truck

Date: 1917
Description: An International livestock truck hauls several animals, possibly cows, along a dirt road. The truck may be a Model H or 21.
Photograph

Truck Caravan on Road

Date: 1917
Description: A caravan of trucks en route from International Harvester's Akron Works factory in Ohio to Chicago is traveling down a rural road lined with telephone pole...
Manuscript

Have Our Rural Schools Kept Pace?

Date: 07 1951
Description: Graphic from University of Wisconsin Extension Service Special Circular 20 showing progress in transportation and economics and posing the question "have o...
Photograph

Milwaukee Street View

Date: 02 02 1978
Description: "View from the water tower looking north up Milwaukee (Main) Street."
Photograph

International KR-12 with Semi-Trailer

Date: 1946
Description: View from the side of a road of an International KR-12 truck equipped with 149 inch wheel base and semi-trailer. In the foreground on the right is a parked...
Photograph

International KR-11 Truck with Semi-Trailer

Date: 1944
Description: Man driving an International KR-11 truck with semi-trailer (semi-truck) on a rural highway. The truck was owned and operated by West Motor Freight of Boyer...
Photograph

Romanowski Coal Truck

Date: 1937
Description: A man loads a piece of equipment onto the back of an International D-40 truck owned by the Romanowski Coal Company while it is parked in a residential driv...
Photograph

Silo Fire

Date: 07 1980
Description: "Theresa firemen respond to a silo fire at the Henning farm on County P."
Photograph

International SF-46 Truck Fueling Airplane

Date: 08 10 1929
Description: A group of fifteen men and boys are standing by while an International model SF-46 gasoline truck fuels a Western Canada Airways tri-motored airplane. One ...
Photograph

Brady's Lodge

Date: 1927
Description: Filling station and office at Brady's Lodge. An attendant is standing by the gas pump. There is a truck parked on the right. Signs on the left read: "Sandw...
Photograph

International Harvester Scout Snow Plows

Date: 12 21 1965
Description: Elevated view of five rows of International Harvester Scout Snow Plows parked in a field. Original caption reads: "Photograph MS-10003-- There's muscle gal...
Photograph

Light Duty Vehicles on Railroad Cars Headed for Texas

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view of railhead. Cars and trucks are parked near small industrial buildings on the bottom left. The "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehi...
Photograph

Light Duty Vehicles on Railroad Cars Headed for Texas

Date: 1970
Description: Elevated view from rear of railhead. Trucks are parked on the left and right, alongside the "Texas Special" train load of light duty vehicles which are on ...

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