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Army Mechanics and TD-14 Tractor

Date: 1941
Description: Military mechanics and TD-14 crawler tractor with a Hughes-Keenan Crane servicing a B-17 bomber in MacDill Field hanger. MacDill Field, now MacDill Army Ai...
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Truck Driver Joseph Gonzalez in International DB-405 Truck

Date: 1963
Description: Truck driver Joseph Gonzalez in his International DB-405 Budweiser beer truck at the terminus of U.S. Highway 1. A sign in front of the truck reads "end of...
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McCormick-Deering I-12 Tractors Hauling Cargo

Date: 06 20 1935
Description: Two African American workers use McCormick-Deering I-12 industrial tractors with attached wagons to haul cargo at a Jacksonville rail station. The men wor...
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Loading Rail Freight with I-12 Tractor

Date: 06 20 1935
Description: African American workers load barrels of freight onto a Southeastern Express rail car at a Jacksonville rail station. One worker is operating an Internati...
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Unloading Fishing Gear from International C-1 Wagon

Date: 02 08 1935
Description: Three men on a dock unloading gear from an International C-1 wood-paneled ("woody") station wagon for a fishing trip. One man is standing in a fishing boat...
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Picnic at the Beach with International C-1 Station Wagon

Date: 02 08 1935
Description: Women preparing for a picnic at the beach with their International C-1 wood-paneled ("woody") station wagon.
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Apollo 17 Lunar Rover

Date: 09 1972
Description: Astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt practice operating the lunar roving vehicle (LRV) in preparation for the Apollo 17 mission to the moon. They ...
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Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 03 1909
Description: Carl Bates in his airplane. The bottom half of the card shows the beginning of a race between Bates' invention and an automobile. Bates was from Clear Lake...
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Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 03 1909
Description: The airplane invented by Carl S. Bates on the beach at Daytona Beach, Florida. Coverage of this event by a local newspaper noted that the advantages of Bat...
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Iowa's First Flyer

Date: 03 1909
Description: Carl S. Bates, a young inventor from Clear Lake, Iowa, about to race the Buick owned by Louis Strang on the beach at Daytona Beach. Bates originally chall...
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International Model K-1 station wagon

Date: 04 10 1941
Description: Young man opening the driver's door of an International Model K-1 station wagon ("woody") parked along a dock.
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International B-4 Truck with Supplies for Turpentine Still

Date: 04 09 1935
Description: Workers unloading supplies from an International B-4 truck for a still operated by Turpentine and Rosin Factors, Inc. in Jacksonville.
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Telephone Workers Aboard an International K-7 Truck

Date: 1941
Description: Workers climbing on an International K-7 truck owned by Southern Bell Telephone Company, ready to service customers between Jacksonville and Camp Blanding,...
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Orange Belt Truck and Tractor Company

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Mechanics working on trucks at the Orange Belt Truck and Tractor Company, an International truck and agricultural equipment dealership.
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Over-Counter Sale

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Customer and salesman at the sales counter of the Orange Belt Truck & Tractor Company, an International Harvester dealership. An International truck is in ...
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Orange State Motor Company Parts Room

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: Jimmie Steel, parts department assistant manager, and Harold Hjort, parts department manager, take inventory of the Orange State Motor Company parts room. ...
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Paint Room of International Harvester Dealership

Date: 04 11 1935
Description: Eddie Pearce, foreman of the paint shop at the Orange State Motor Company, works on an International truck.
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Workers Unload a Grocers' Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Three men unload an International truck owned by J.E. Vann and Company Wholesale Grocers. The truck is carrying bags and crates of merchandise and is parke...
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Truman Family at Key West

Date: 11 25 1951
Description: President and Mrs. Truman and Margaret Truman motoring from the Little White House to Truman Beach in Key West.
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Houseboat in Florida

Date: 1968
Description: View from shoreline towards a man standing on the deck of a houseboat, which has the name "Surfside 6" on its side.

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