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| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | City street in Puerto Rico, seemingly at dusk. Shop windows are brightly lit, and a man leans against one while reading a newspaper. Other men are having t... |
| Date: | 04 27 1929 |
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| Description: | View across cobblestone street towards men loading what appears to be an International garbage truck on a city street. Two men are lifting a can up towards... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Color photo of a man collecting garbage cans from an alleyway and emptying them into a truck with an IH logo on the front of the chassis and a Leach logo o... |
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| Description: | Color photo of men unloading refuse into the back of an International garbage collection truck parked beside a restaurant. The neon signs on the restaurant... |
| Date: | 1966 |
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| Description: | Four men gathered outdoors. Two sit on stoops of houses while two stand in the dirt pathway. More homes are visible in the background. There is a garbage o... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Two workers are placing refuse in a garbage truck. One is an African-American man in a jacket, hat, and gloves and carrying a trash can. The other man is f... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | An older man is standing in an office, possibly a weigh station of the Philadelphia Street Department. He is at a bench with papers and various office supp... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A garbage truck is backed up and emptying refuse into what is likely an incinerator. A man is standing at the open driver's door, and another man is sittin... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | View down sidewalk of two African-American sanitation workers carrying cans and sacks of trash to a garbage truck, is stopped in a residential neighborhood... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Two men are standing and talking in a plaza in front of a building which has a large sign with the words: "Memphis Tennessee Shelby County" around the seal... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | View from lawn in a residential neighborhood of three men pushing trash cans on hand carts towards a garbage truck. Behind the garbage truck is an Internat... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | An African-American man is dumping a barrel of trash into an International Harvester Scout with a dump body driven by another African-American man. They ar... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Three garbage trucks are pictured in a landfill dumping trash. An African-American man is standing by one of the trucks. The trucks are likely Internationa... |
| Date: | 04 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Thirty-three Sun Prairie 4-H youngsters are shown with one of four truckloads of trash they picked up along area highways. |
| Date: | 2013 |
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| Description: | The driver of a Harter’s Refuse truck throws a bag of trash into his truck. He is holding one trash can, and two others sit near a garage. He is wearing a ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of a D-300 truck with garbage collecting body parked in front of a brick building. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a D-300-H truck used for garbage collection. Hercules body hydraulic hoist. Rounded sliding covers. Waterproof tailga... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from front left of a D-300-H truck used for garbage collection. Hercules body hydraulic hoist. Rounded sliding covers. Waterproof tailga... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | View of man carrying a metal trash bin towards a dump truck. A man sits in the driver's seat. Another man stands near metal trash bins behind a fence along... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Two men, one in the driver's seat of the D-300 M.T. truck, and the other carrying a metal trash bin, on a residential street. The truck is used by the Refu... |
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