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Ninth Convention

Date: 05 1954
Description: An integrated banquet hall during the Ninth Convention in Sioux City, Iowa. There is a banner overhead that reads "100% Price Support For Farmers Is Job Su...
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Nikita Khrushchev Visits Iowa Farm

Date: 1959
Description: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev inspecting hogs on a farm. Khrushchev is accompanied by Roswell "Bob" Garst and Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge.
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Nikita Khrushchev with Reporters

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev wading through a throng of reporters during a visit to a farm. A Farmall 560 tractor is in the background...
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Men Look Under Hood of International A-120 Truck

Date: 1959
Description: Two men looking under the hood of an International A-120 4x4 pickup. A camper trailer is parked beside them on the right.
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Wilson Boycott Parade

Date: 1959
Description: As part of a statewide boycott of Wilson products, delegates to the State Federation of Labor in Cedar Rapids participate in an automobile parade. One car-...
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Three Cows at Water Trough

Date: 1958
Description: Three cows at a water trough on Earl Mark's farm near Williams, Iowa.
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H.L. Bavender with Cows and Dog

Date: 1958
Description: Farmer H.L. Bavender with cows and a dog on his farm.
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Farmall 300 Tractor with Loader and Turkeys

Date: 1958
Description: Farmer Hubert Hill using a Farmall 300 tractor with a front-end loader to control a flock of turkeys. The original caption reads: "Hubert Hill's elevated f...
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Khrushchev's First Hot Dog

Date: 09 22 1959
Description: Interviewed outside a meat packing plant near Des Moines, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev pronounced his first American hot dog to be "wonderful, but not...
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Farm Profit Protest

Date: 1953
Description: Farmers and their supporters picket at the National Farm Institute to protest farm prices and their poor economic outlook.
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Packinghouse Picnic

Date: 1953
Description: Children playing outdoors at the Packinghouse Workers summer picnic.
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Don't Buy Rath

Date: 04 17 1950
Description: Workers leaving the John Deere factory read literature from United Packinghouse of America workers on strike at a nearby plant. Although the location of th...
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Covering the President

Date: 1956
Description: Rear view of a parade of reporters in open cars following President Eisenhower on a rural road in Iowa. The President is standing in an open car at the rig...
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Iowa vs. California Basketball Game

Date: 12 19 1958
Description: Action photograph of the Iowa vs. California (Bears) basketball game during the first half of a doubleheader, matching Big 10 and Pacific Coast Conference ...
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Railroads — TD-9

Date: 1950
Description: Subject: "Railroads — TD-9." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "C.B.& Q. RR TD-9 with Hough bulldozer shovel repairing pavement of ya...
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UD-16 — Generators

Date: 1950
Description: View of Coal Mine. Subject: "UD-16 — Generators." Where Taken: "MidW." Information with photograph reads: "Used by the Big 4 Coal Co., Ottumwa, Iowa, to dr...

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