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| Date: | 04 27 1987 |
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| Description: | A city worker fills in holes in the road in mild spring weather. |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage in bushel baskets on Capitol Square during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 06 15 1948 |
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| Description: | Uncollected garbage in the 300 block of West Main Street during a walkout strike by Local 236 Municipal Garage Department Union. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Men load boxes onto an International D-300 truck owned by the City of Santa Ana. The truck was used for garbage removal. One man stands in the bed of the t... |
| Date: | 07 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Four members of the Madison Parks Department building the ramp on Midvale Avenue for the upcoming Madison Soap Box derby. Left to right: Vie Cramer, Don Ke... |
| 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: | 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: | 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A cherry-picker is lifting a line worker holding a STIHL chainsaw and wearing a helmet high in the air next to a Siberian elm that is in the process of bei... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four telephone linemen. Three of the men are posed on the pole, and another man is standing on the ground. Three automobiles are parked a... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | View across dirt road towards three linemen posing in front of a truck that is parked along the side of the road. A power pole is attached horizontally in ... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of four telephone linemen standing together, three of them wearing pole climbing spikes (or spurs). The man leaning on the pole is Carl Pete... |
| Date: | 12 16 1926 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a truck. On the side of the truck is a sign that reads: "City Line Dep't." Equipment is hanging in the back of the... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Women drivers of light dump trucks for the highway department in Ashland County during the first World War. The truck in the foreground has a service flag ... |
| Date: | 01 10 1984 |
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| Description: | Two men are shoveling steaming asphalt from the rear of a truck. Caption reads: "Portage County Highway Department workers Victor Peters (left) and Arleigh... |
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