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International Model F Moving Truck

Date: 1918
Description: A man is standing in front of an International Model F (or 31) truck loaded with a variety of household items, including a metal washtub and wooden sled.
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Bernice Johnston Death

Date: 11 28 1949
Description: County officers and state crime lab officials searching for clues in the pasture near Fitch Hatchery road, where Bernice Johnston was beaten and abandoned....
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Corn Testing in Cook County Schools

Date: 1913
Description: Farmers and Cook County students headed to a corn testing session in horse-drawn wagons. Original caption reads: "The farmers of this district were interes...
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Workers' Protest

Date: 11 13 1958
Description: Factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a strike. A uniformed police officer looks on from the right. The workers are picketing ne...
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IH Workers on Strike

Date: 11 13 1958
Description: International Harvester factory workers hold signs as they picket while participating in a "steel strike" near Tractor Works.
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Stump Removal

Date: 07 24 1923
Description: A man is using a 10-20(?) tractor and chain to remove a stump from a piece of land on the R.R. Robertson farm. Two other men are looking on.
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Clearing Land

Date: 12 18 1922
Description: A man is using a McCormick-Deering 10-20(?) tractor to assist in clearing land in a residential area. Several other men are standing in the background hold...
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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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Construction Work on the New Free Bridge

Date: 08 29 1930
Description: Two cranes and a car at the bridge construction site. Several workers work on carving out the road at the edge of the river.
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International KBR-11 Truck Advertising Proof

Date: 10 1947
Description: Advertising proof for International trucks, featuring a color illustration of a Model KBR-11 truck-tractor with semi-trailer. Includes the text: "Winter Tr...
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International Truck Hauling Rocks at Hoover Dam

Date: 03 1932
Description: Men are standing on scaffolding built into the walls of a canyon during the construction of the Hoover Dam. An electric shovel is moving pieces of dynamite...
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Rural Mail Carrier

Date: 02 03 1978
Description: Winter scene with mail carrier in car putting mail in a mailbox. "Ralph Koll, Rural Mail Carrier. Somewhere in this monstrous snow drift is Helen Moldenha...
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Bancroft Obreros Unidos Strikers

Date: 08 24 1967
Description: Elevated view of 150 workers rallying as a part of Obreros Unidos (United Workers) protest against poor working conditions of migrant farm workers in the S...
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Berg Farm

Date: 10 1987
Description: "Gordon Berg, left, Brownsville area farmer, posed with his hired helper at his state-of-the-art farm."
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International Trucks Alaska Highway Ad

Date: 1943
Description: Advertisement for International trucks featuring a color illustration of men working with an excavator and an International dump truck on the Alcan Highway...
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Shoveling Snow on Rural Road

Date: 1905
Description: Winter scene of snow-covered road with two men shoveling snow. A dog is standing in the road near the men. The road is lined with fenced fields and telepho...
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Two Men Delivering Couch to Furniture Store

Date: 1972
Description: Two men are delivering a couch from Mastercraft Furniture Corporation of Omaha, Nebraska to a furniture store. The men are outside carrying the couch towar...
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Roadside Stop in France

Date: 08 25 1944
Description: A roadside stop in Normandy, France. Three men are standing with a jeep. From left is Robert Doyle, war correspondent for the Milwaukee Journal. The...
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Teams of U.S. Army Engineer Corps

Date: 1918
Description: View down snowy hill towards a team of U.S. Army Engineers traveling the Russian countryside in horse-drawn sleighs for the purpose of constructing a map o...
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Snow Scene

Date: 03 09 1936
Description: Slightly elevated winter scene with a large group of people digging a car out of the snow with shovels. The car can barely be seen in the center of the cro...

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