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Checking the Oil

Date: 1956
Description: Woman in polka dot dress is looking on as a service station worker checks the oil in her car.
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Men with Ice Trucks

Date: 1940
Description: Two men load blocks of ice from a loading dock onto the backs of International D-2 and D-15 trucks owned by the Salem Ice Company.
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Lifting the Lindsay Street Sign

Date: 04 14 1967
Description: Vel Phillips and Bernice Lindsay helping lift the Lindsay Street sign to be installed. Phillips is wearing a dress and is in front of Lindsay, who is weari...
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Man Using Horse-Drawn Binder

Date: 1900
Description: Three-quarter view from right rear of a man using a horse-drawn Deering binder in a field.
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Mining Operation

Date: 1839
Description: Cut-away lithography illustration of a mining operation, showing men lowering a miner into a mine where several other men are working.
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Manchester's Advertising Department Views Printing Press

Date: 07 13 1957
Description: Five women wearing folded newspaper hats while viewing a large printing press on a tour at Madison Newspapers Inc. The five women from the advertising depa...
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Brumder Family in Florida

Date: 04 1953
Description: Edward J. Brumder, Jr., center, posing with a sailfish which is hanging on a rack with other fish. A sign identifies the location as the Boynton Inlet Dock...
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Blackberry Trail

Date: 08 1907
Description: Slightly elevated view of a group of men, women, and children on the blackberry trail. Alfred Holt is first in the line, followed by his mother Lucy Rumsey...
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We Saw You . . . at Edgewood's De Ricci Hall

Date: 09 14 1960
Description: A painter puts on the finishing touches in a classroom in the new De Ricci Hall building on the Edgewood College campus, 855 Woodrow Street, as Sister M. T...
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Milwaukee Reaper in Factory Yard

Date: 08 08 1916
Description: Milwaukee Reaper in factory yard. A man is standing on the right holding a backdrop. A factory building with an open door is in the background.
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Forest Lodge Transport

Date: 10 1960
Description: Mary Livingston Griggs, wearing a navy blue dress coat, is sitting in a three-wheel blue cart with a red roof that Mary used to travel the grounds of Fores...

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