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| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | The cemetery for the war dead on Guam. The body of a fighting man who died of wounds received during the battle for Iwo Jima is being lowered into the eart... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Farmer using a McCormick Farmall H tractor in a cornfield near a pond. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | International power unit powers an irrigation system. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Private Fred Schneider and wife with crowd in the water at a beach. |
| Date: | 06 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Nancy Keenan standing on a beach in a lifeguard swimming suit. She is one of 7 women lifeguards out of a group of 19 who patrol the Madison be... |
| Date: | 05 17 1947 |
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| Description: | Captain Harvey Black, veteran chief lifeguard of the University of Wisconsin-Madison lifeguards, standing in his boat, "Isabel II". |
| Date: | 03 19 1940 |
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| Description: | View across Milwaukee River of workers of the Herman M. Hettler Lumber Company unloading lumber off a shipping boat to the Shroeder Lumber Yards and Troste... |
| Date: | 05 26 1947 |
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| Description: | The stone council circle in the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum. It was built by noted landscape architect and bereaved father, Jens Jensen, as a... |
| Date: | 07 10 1948 |
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| Description: | Art Ensign (left) and Chuck Steele seated in the lifeguard tower at Madison's Lakefront Beach. The City of Madison has placed experienced lifeguards at 8 b... |
| Date: | 08 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Three of the models who will appear in the annual summer session style show, sponsored by the Women's Self Government Association, are shown on the steps n... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | J. Robert Taylor, his niece Fern Stauff Peters, and a dog are sitting on rocks near a river. Taylor is holding what appears to be a camera. |
| Date: | 10 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Men work with an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in construction of the Merriman Dam. The tractor was owned by S.A. Healy Co., White Plains, Ne... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. In anothe... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory worker producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. In this o... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | A worker in a hat stands and takes a drink out of a clear glass jug on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption states: "One o... |
| Date: | 07 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Bob Trotalli, a recent graduate of West High School, has a summer job as a life guard at the Willows Beach on Lake Mendota. He is shown talking to Betsy Mi... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Frank Hurn, driver for Davidson Transfer & Storage Company, wiping the windshield of an International D-40 truck. The truck appears to be parked near a har... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Men in a washroom are cleaning an International truck used by Standard Freight Lines, Inc. The original caption reads: "Truck washroom. American Transporta... |
| Date: | 11 29 1949 |
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| Description: | Robert Hoffman dropping coins into the wishing well at the Capitol Theatre for the Empty Stocking Club and the Kiddie Camp fund to "Help Bring Happiness to... |
| Date: | 09 1943 |
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| Description: | Battalion Seabees work on waterfront construction using an International K-line truck. |
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