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Delivery Trucks

Date: 12 29 1927
Description: View across street towards a delivery truck. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "Hickey Warehouse Co. Moving – Storage."
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Tunnel Motor Vans Moving Truck

Date: 02 27 1928
Description: View across street towards a truck parked along the curb. The sign reads, in part: "Local & Long Distance Moving," "Piano Hoisting" and "Storage."
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Men with Moving Van

Date: 01 05 1929
Description: Two men are standing with a moving van parked along a curb. The back of the truck is covered with a tarp. A large brick building is behind them.
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Moving Van

Date: 12 29 1927
Description: View across snowy street towards a parked moving van. The sign painted on the side of the truck reads: "R.H. Gray, Local & Long Distance Moving."
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Moving Van

Date: 04 29 1927
Description: View across street towards a moving van parked along a curb. In the background is a park and houses. The sign painted on the side of the van reads: "Wissma...
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Truck/Moving Van

Date: 01 07 1927
Description: Left side view of a moving van parked in the snow. The canvas sides of the bed of the truck are rolled up onto the roof. There is a large building with br...
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Truck/Moving Van

Date: 01 07 1927
Description: Left side profile view of truck/moving van parked on a snow street. The canvas sides of the bed of the truck are rolled up onto the roof. In the background...
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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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Allied Van Lines Truck

Date: 01 27 1939
Description: Allied Van Lines truck parked in front of W.T. Whalen Transfer, 605 University Avenue.
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Union Transfer Truck

Date: 04 25 1939
Description: Union Transfer & Storage Co. moving van parked at the rear of their building, 155-303 E. Wilson Street.
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Heabel & Rose, House Movers

Date: 10 14 1923
Description: Three men standing near a house on a trailer attached to a truck. A sign on the truck reads: "This house being moved by Heabel & Rose House Movers Phone 10...
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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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Alex Zembrzycki Truck

Date: 12 26 1929
Description: View across street towards a truck with a sign on the driver's side door that reads: "Dump Truck Service." The sign on the stake body of the truck bed read...
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Moving Van

Date: 01 05 1929
Description: View down street towards two men sitting in the cab of a moving van backed up to the curb, with a sign painted on the side that reads: "Redman's Transfer."...
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Leaving House in Monaco [sic]

Date: 04 26 1935
Description: Family, including two children standing, a woman carrying another child, and a man who is carrying suitcases, leaving a house.
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Freight on Railroad Right of Way

Date: 05 1935
Description: Elevated view of men working with the freight thrown off along the railroad right of way. Trunks and crates and barrels are arranged on a tarp in the backg...
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Moving In

Date: 1925
Description: Margaret Bouer (Mrs. Herbert Paul) Brumder posing standing beside an automobile hitched to a trailer, which is precariously loaded with household furnishin...
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International Model F Truck Moving Furniture

Date: 1921
Description: Man behind the wheel of an International model F truck loaded with furniture in front of a residential home. The truck was owned by E.A. Ringland, Internat...
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Accident in Milwaukee

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Description: On-lookers observing an accident, in downtown Milwaukee, of the Hamman's Express Line, piano and furniture mover.
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International K-7 Truck

Date: 1941
Description: International K-7 tractor and trailer (semi-truck) operated by Allied Van Lines. The truck was owned by Ware Transfer & Storage of Des Moines, Iowa.

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