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W.J. Hyland Plumbing Truck

Date: 1920
Description: Ford truck of Madison plumber W.J. Hyland parked outdoors.
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Packinghouse Union Work Stoppage

Date: 1952
Description: Members of the United Packinghouse Workers Local 80 picketing the Campbell Soup Company plant. The union had walked out as a result of wage, union shop, an...
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Magdeburg Branch House Loading Dock

Date: 1935
Description: Railroad cars loaded with farm equipment on a track near the loading dock of International Harvester's Magdeburg branch house in Germany.
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10-20 Tractor in Railroad Yard

Date: 04 18 1926
Description: A worker uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to pull a platform along tracks in a railroad yard outside a factory or other type of industrial building.
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P&H Gasoline Crane Mounted on Flatbed Railroad Car

Date: 1913
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered crane mounted on a 5-ton standard flatbed railroad car with a grab bucket. A man is standing on the ground on rail...
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City of Quincy Truck

Date: 10 31 1938
Description: A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car.
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Rock Island Lines Railroad Truck

Date: 12 16 1936
Description: A man places a bag onto the bed of an International C-1 truck owned by the Chicago Rock Island Railroad. The truck is marked with the text "No.9" and "Wate...
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Missouri Pacific Railroad

Date: 1936
Description: An International Model C-35 is parked near a building. To the right men are working on a locomotive for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. The front of another...
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International Moving Truck with Trailer

Date: 1950
Description: A man drives an International L-180 truck outfitted with a North American Van Lines Inc. trailer down a road next to a railroad track. Train cars, a buildi...
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C.B. and Q. R.R. Stone Crusher

Date: 1900
Description: The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad stone crusher. There is a large group of workmen posing along the work site.
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Farmers Waiting to Ship Harvest

Date: 09 1902
Description: Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks...
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Railroad Workers

Date: 1940
Description: Two men, railroad workers, fixing the wooden railroad ties. In the background are railroad cars on another set of railroad tracks.m
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Western Train

Date: 1903
Description: Switchman standing at the switch next to railroad tracks cut through a rock formation. Another man is standing on top of the rock formation on the left. In...
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Delivery Truck at Union Pacific Railroad

Date: 08 11 1927
Description: View of a man sitting in the driver's seat of a delivery truck backed up to a loading dock. The sign painted on the passenger door reads: "Union Pacific, D...
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Man in Driver's Seat of Dump Truck

Date: 03 01 1928
Description: Right side view of a truck with a stake body and a sign that reads: "Canadian National Express."
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North Western Railroad Concrete Coal Chute Demolished

Date: 08 02 1957
Description: North Western Railroad employees demolish a concrete coal chute at the railroad's East Side yard, at Commercial and Sherman Avenues, on their second attemp...

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