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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster promoting "Milker Service Day" at International Harvester dealerships. Includes the text: "Our trained milker service men will adjust an... |
| Date: | 03 15 1955 |
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| Description: | Women from Pittsburgh AFL Retail Clerks' Union Local 1365 picket at the Milwaukee store. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of a sales agent showing a farmer a new McCormick Farmall H tractor alongside a storefront of a local IH dealership. In the background a... |
| Date: | 05 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter... |
| Date: | 05 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter... |
| Date: | 05 10 1957 |
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| Description: | Colleen O'Brien, sophomore at East High School, modeling a light blue cotton Dacron dress, with her hand resting on the back of a chair, for a Vogue patter... |
| Date: | 1956 |
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| Description: | Farmall 400 propane tractor and a 455 Farmall Cultivator on display in a showroom, possibly at the International Harvester headquarters in Chicago, Illinoi... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Several tractors are on display in a showroom along with a snowplow. On display are the "V" Wausau Snow Plow, Farmall Cub Tractor, A-22 Side-Mounted Mower ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A Farmall 100 tractor on display in a showroom. The showroom may have been at the International Harvester headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | A Farmall 300 and 400 tractor on display in a showroom. The showroom may have been at the International Harvester headquarters in Chicago, Illinois. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Juan B. Marquez, driver of an International L-150 truck for Borden's Fine Dairy Products, delivers a crate of dairy products to El Aguila Groceries. The bu... |
| Date: | 10 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Elizabeth Stemp (right), owner of the Stemp Typewriter Company, shows a typewriter to customer Mildred Subey, associated with the Herfurth Insurance Agenc... |
| Date: | 03 02 1954 |
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| Description: | Berta Newel serves a customer, Hazel Van Wagene, at her new job as a clerk in the yard goods department of Yost's-Kessenich's store. Mrs. Newell received e... |
| Date: | 03 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Harriett Allender Steil, interior decorator for Frautschi's and 1951 home economics graduate of the U.W., discusses drapery fabrics with Martha Schmidt, fo... |
| Date: | 11 13 1957 |
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| Description: | Mary Lou Clingman receiving her prize, a Hart Schaffner & Marx suit, from W.M. Harris, president of Olson & Veerhusen, for winning first prize in a contest... |
| Date: | 05 21 1959 |
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| Description: | Robert Retzlaff (left), manager of the newly opened Ben Franklin variety store at 4204 Monona Drive, posing in the foreground on his store's first day of b... |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Close-up of carpenters Art Thorstad and George Clark working on the new Sears Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Joe Starkey, Herman Crume, and Harley Buelow working on forms for the new Sears Roebuck store on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 01 18 1954 |
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| Description: | Architect's representative Rod Lindwall checking over plans at the new Sears Roebuck store under construction on East Washington Avenue. He is using what a... |
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