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| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | WW II scrap metal drive. Scoutmaster Edward G. Shaw and his troop of boy scouts on bicycles and on a trailer loaded with scrap metal. The trailer is hitche... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Harbor in Marinette at sunset. Boats are docked at the sides of a canal. Smoke pours from smokestacks of a facility in the distance. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | International DR-500 cement truck with 94-inch wheel base owned and operated by Ireland and Lester Ready Mixed Concrete. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Worker unloading steel beams from the back of an International D-300 truck at night. The truck was owned by Beals-McCarthy & Rogers Co., a wholesale hardwa... |
| Date: | 04 1942 |
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| Description: | Three young girls, (L to R): Beverly Peterson, Virginia Gullickson, and Joane Aaby, with an old iron bed donated for a WW II scrap drive during MacArthur W... |
| Date: | 01 22 1943 |
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| Description: | Hospital heating building at Truax Army Air Field, from the west side. |
| Date: | 08 17 1942 |
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| Description: | Damaged pump house after an oil tank explosion at Timlin Lumber Company, 2702 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 07 03 1941 |
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| Description: | Undamaged right side of damaged automobile in O.C. Harris Company junk yard, Highways 12-18-51. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee rail yards. |
| Date: | 05 03 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a Chicago and Northwestern passenger train, which is the first across a new bridge in Sheboygan. There is a group of people standing near ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Man loading coal from an overhead bin into an International K-6 dump truck owned by South Chicago Coal and Dock Company. The slogan "coal stoker heat is be... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Workers loading items into an International K-4 truck for United Gas and Fuel Company of Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. A sign on the truck reads: "gas ranges ... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Color photograph of International L-120, L-110, and L-130 trucks outside of a long building. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of an International LFD-405 Truck-Van, closed top with semi-trailer. The model year is 1950. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline towards the Buettner mill on the left, and the river with a dam, on the right. In the backgroun... |
| Date: | 09 30 1947 |
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| Description: | Red Dot Foods Inc., delivery truck outside a Red Dot Foods truck garage, 1441 East Washington Avenue. Background includes portions of Ohio Chemical Company... |
| Date: | 01 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Damaged Ford truck, owned by Kieth Wells general trucking Cazenovia Wis., detail showing the front view. Taken at O.C. Harris auto salvage yard, 1217 East ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A view across Kenosha harbor at the large Simmons Company factory building. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Abandoned mill, formerly called the Modena Roller Mills. The first mill was built in 1865 (now torn down). |
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