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Edna Ferber with Pearls

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Description: Quarter-length studio portrait of Edna Ferber looking to her right, wearing a string of pearls.
Photograph

Catalog Shopper

Date: 11 20 1988
Description: Mail-order shopper with too many choices ponders her next purchase.
Photograph

John Alexander, Time/NADA Truck Dealer of the Year

Date: 05 22 1968
Description: John M. Alexander holding plaque recognizing him as the Time/North American Dealer Association (NADA) truck dealer of the year.
Photograph

Magazines Displayed in Window

Date: 03 24 1931
Description: Magazines in the Capitol Times window. The "Woman's Home Companion" and "American Magazine" are displayed.
Photograph

Changing Calendar

Date: 05 05 1927
Description: Man turning calendar page of a National Guardian Life Insurance calendar.
Book or Pamphlet

International Fire Truck Brochure

Date: 1959
Description: Front cover color illustration of an advertising brochure for International B-line, R-line, V-line and CO-line fire truck chassis.
Print

McCormick Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick harvesting machines. The cover features an illustration of an old man wearing a hat, smoking a pipe and readi...
Photograph

Agricultural Extension Publications

Date: 1946
Description: An array of publications produced and distributed by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. Includes booklets relating to plowing, ho...
Book or Pamphlet

Land of Plenty

Date: 1950
Description: Cover a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department. The cover includes an illustration of a farm with cows in the fore...
Book or Pamphlet

Grow a Garden

Date: 1915
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to promote family gardens. Includes an image of a young woman st...
Book or Pamphlet

More and Better Potatoes to the Acre

Date: 06 15 1932
Description: Cover of a booklet produced by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department to help farmers improve their potato crops. Includes an illustra...
Book or Pamphlet

International Fire Truck Brochure

Date: 1973
Description: Back cover of a brochure for International's Fire Fighting and Emergency Equipment. Features a color photograph of seven fire trucks of various sizes. The ...
Document

Highlander Reports 25th Annual Report Cover

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Description: Front cover of the Highlander Reports, October 1, 1956-September 30, 1957, with an image of Septima Clark, who was Director of Education at Highlander Scho...
Document

Highlander Reports 27th Annual Report Cover

Date: 
Description: Front cover of the Highlander Reports, October 1, 1958-September 30, 1959, with an image of Esau Jenkins and Myles Horton.
Document

Highlander Reports 29th Annual Report Cover

Date: 
Description: Front cover of the Highlander Reports, October 1, 1960-September 30, 1961. There is an image on the cover of a meeting attended by Myles Horton at Highland...
Photograph

Striking Sugar Workers

Date: 1955
Description: Striking members of the United Packinghouse Workers employed by the Colonial Sugar Company in New Orleans, Louisiana, distribute literature to passers-by u...
Photograph

Support the Sugar Workers

Date: 05 1948
Description: On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking...
Photograph

Informational Picket

Date: 1950
Description: Vi Slovin, an employee of the United Packinghouse Workers District One office in Chicago, working after hours to distribute leaflets about the Wilson & Co....
Photograph

Where's Joe?

Date: 08 03 1952
Description: Leonard Schmitt, independent Republican candidate for the United States Senate, holding a copy of The McCarthy Record and pointing to an empty chair...
Photograph

Office Workers

Date: 1934
Description: A woman at an office desk reads a pamphlet entitled, "What is Quality in a Motor Truck?" A male worker speaks on the telephone in the background. The two m...

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