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Tearing down Eau Claire House

Date: 1920
Description: Tearing down Eau Claire House to make way for the Y.M.C.A. building. A man is standing on the roof. A sign in the street reads, in part: "Electric Light He...
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Construction Truck

Date: 1969
Description: A man is driving a construction truck in the shadow cast by what appears to be an elevated highway. A sign for the "Brooklyn Battery Tunnel" is on one of t...
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Adams Maintainer

Date: 06 30 1927
Description: A Nebraska State Highway Department worker uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with an Adams maintainer to work on a rural road.
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Industrial 10-20 Tractor with Grader

Date: 11 14 1925
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with a grader to smooth a dirt road. Shadows of the photographer and the camera standing on a tripo...
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Farm Equipment Workers Union Mass Meeting

Date: 11 05 1945
Description: Elevated view of members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union meeting in a parking lot of the McCormick Works factory located at the corner of Oakley and Bl...
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Main Street

Date: 1921
Description: Main Street, where two young girls walk on the sidewalk, and a horse and carriage and two cars are parked in the street. There is a townhouse complex on th...
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Great Western Oil Company Truck

Date: 03 13 1925
Description: A Model 103 International truck owned by the Great Western Oil Company of Cleveland, Ohio parked on a cobblestone street in a residential area. A man stand...
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Support for Allis-Chalmers Strike

Date: 11 25 1946
Description: Demonstration march down city street in support of Allis-Chalmers, local 248, strike. Most of the marchers are women. Truck in front with megaphone reads "...
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'...
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International Scout Parked Near Mailbox

Date: 09 04 1962
Description: Three-quarter view from front of driver's side of an International Scout parked by mailbox. A man in the driver's seat is putting a letter into the mailbox...
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Hardware Store Delivery Truck

Date: 06 19 1925
Description: Man driving a hardware store delivery truck on a street. The sides of the truck are open, with the covers rolled up near the roof. There is a man in the pa...
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Moving Van Parked Outdoors

Date: 08 10 1926
Description: A moving van is parked along the curb in front of a building with signs that read: "John Clark & Sons, Storage Warehouses."
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Laundry Delivery Truck

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of the Oak Terrace Laundry truck. The truck is decorated with striped swags. Houses are in th...
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Grocery Delivery Trucks

Date: 12 12 1927
Description: Fleet of grocery delivery trucks backed up to a building with a sign that reads: "A.W. & H.H. Behrens Wholesale Grocers." One man is sitting in the driver'...
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Shore Road Vans

Date: 04 27 1929
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck parked along a curb. The signs painted on the side of the truck read: "Shore Road,...
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Group Portrait at Capital City Flour Mill

Date: 05 24 1904
Description: J.H. Findorff bought the Capital City Flour Mill which had been built by Dow and Sons. Caption reads: "On May 24, 1904 J.H. Findorff bought the Capital Cit...
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I-6 — Material Handling

Date: 1950
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a tractor. Subject: "I-6 — Material Handling." Where Taken: "Pacific." Information with photograph rea...
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Newspaper Carriers

Date: 08 26 1954
Description: Houses along a Madison neighborhood street where carriers deliver the Wisconsin State Journal. One house on this paper route has a front yard enclos...
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Man Driving Paulin's Biscuits & Candy Track

Date: 08 08 1928
Description: A man is sitting in the driver's seat of a truck. The back of the truck is stacked high with cardboard boxes. The sign on the side of the truck bed reads: ...
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Truck in Neighborhood

Date: 05 01 1928
Description: View across street towards a man sitting in the driver's seat of a truck parked in a neighborhood. Another man is standing near the open window of the pass...

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