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International VCO-202A Fire and Rescue Truck Battling Fire

Date: 1963
Description: Fire fighters use an International fire and rescue truck with an eighty-five foot mounted ladder to fight a fire, possibly as part of a training exercise. ...
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Support the Sugar Workers

Date: 05 1948
Description: On a Baltimore street corner, Howard Burmeister and Margaret Boyd of United Packinghouse Workers Local 392, distributes a leaflet on the plight of striking...
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Children on the Picket Line

Date: 05 01 1948
Description: Striking members of Packinghouse Workers Local 392 in Baltimore getting ready for Children's Day on the picket line. Frank McCarty, of the UPWA, is about t...
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Men and Cargo at Davidson Transfer and Storage

Date: 1940
Description: Two men look at paperwork while another moves boxes with a truck. Original caption reads: "David Davidson, in white shirt, and loading foreman Louis Holter...
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Davidson Transfer and Storage Company Loading Dock

Date: 1940
Description: A worker at Davidson Transfer & Storage Company's loading dock moving a wooden crate marked "American Red Cross" onto the back of a waiting truck (possibly...
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Sears, Roebuck and Company Truck

Date: 1940
Description: Two uniformed men unload a refrigerator from the back of an International D-30 truck used by the Sears, Roebuck, & Co. truck in front of a residence. A ma...
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Center Market Fruit Stand

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Description: An open air fruit stand in the Center Market in Baltimore, MD. What appears to be cabbages, apples, potatoes and onions are in piles or in baskets. Horse-d...
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General John Gill

Date: 1900
Description: Studio portrait of General John Gill, sitting in a chair and holding a hat and umbrella. He was a Confederate Cavalry officer, grain exporter, and author o...
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Herbert Baxter Adams

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Description: Portrait of Herbert Baxter Adams, a professor of history at Johns Hopkins University. Adams was one of the earliest professors to use the seminar format fo...

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