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McDrum Drug Company

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Description: Customers pose at the soda fountain counter. Clerks are behind the counter.
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International Motor Truck Dealership and Service Station

Date: 1935
Description: International motor truck dealership and service station of E. Earl Shade. Also attached is a gas station island with Purol Pep and Conoco pumps. The stati...
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Trolley Car Pulling Flat Car Carrying McCormick Binder and Mower

Date: 1899
Description: Group of people posing on a trolley car, which is pulling a flat car loaded with a McCormick grain binder and mower as part of an event culminating the "Cr...
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Civil War Army Post Office

Date: 08 1864
Description: Soldiers relax around the Army Post Office at the quarters of the Chief Ambulance Officer, Ninth Army Corps.
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International Metro Trans Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Color photograph of an International Metro Trans delivery truck for Thalimers' Department Store(?) parked outside a house.
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The Marshall House

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Description: Exterior view of the Marshall house in which Elmer E. Ellsworth was shot.
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Fairway 12 Tractor

Date: 1937
Description: Man uses a McCormick-Deering Fairway 12 tractor and mowing attachment to care for lawns (and golf course?) at a country club. Sun bathers are in the backgr...
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James Dorman Davidson Portrait

Date: 1880
Description: James Dorman Davidson (1810-1882) sits in profile in a plush chair for a studio portrait in front of a backdrop. He is wearing a wide hat, suit jacket, bow...
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Rock Crusher at Stone Quarry

Date: 01 11 1938
Description: Simmons stone crusher powered by an International power unit at a State Highway Commission stone quarry.
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Henry E. Allen

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Henry E. Allen, Company A, 1st Wisconsin Heavy Artillery.
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Johnnie Potter

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Description: Full-length carte-de-visite portrait of Johnnie Potter standing in uniform. He is standing next to a table, and there is a sword on his left side. The boy ...
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Dining Room

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Description: A view of an early American dining room in Michie Tavern.
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United States Naval Training Station

Date: 1918
Description: A large group of uniformed sailors pose while others distribute the mail at the United States Naval Training Station St. Helena, land found on the eastern ...
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Hotel Alphin

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Description: Deer and a variety of other game are strung from a tree in a hunting camp at Hotel Alphin. An open tent stands to the right.
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Winding Road

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Description: Elevated view of a road and river winding through a mountainous landscape, seen from Waterlick White Hotel. Caption reads: "View from Hotel, Waterlick whit...
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Blue Ridge Terrace

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Description: Elevated view of the Blue Ridge Terrace, a large hotel on a mountain overlooking the valley. Cars are parked near the road, and three men are gathered on t...
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Commercial Main Street

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Description: View down a commercial main street lined with trees and parked cars.
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Old Capitol at Williamsburg

Date: 1907
Description: View of the Old Capitol at Williamsburg during the Jamestown Exposition. Signs advertise, "Colonial Virginia, Accurately Reproduced, Smith's Adventures Wi...
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Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

Date: 1950
Description: View from lawn of the Tomb of Unknown Soldier and the Arlington Memorial Amphitheater from the base of the stairs leading to the monument. Groups of men an...
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George Washington's Mount Vernon

Date: 1950
Description: View across lawn towards the back side of George Washington's Mount Vernon. Several people are sitting and standing on the piazza. There is a cupola on the...

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