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| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | The sewage disposal plant showing the settling basins and colloidal. The main pumping station for the sewage was situated near the Chicago, Milwaukee and S... |
| Date: | 1982 |
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| Description: | Front cover of an advertising brochure for International "Severe Service Refuse" trucks. Features color illustrations of a garbage truck and a dump truck. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The smokestack is several inches out of plumb, which was the reason the photographer took the photograph. Located on a waterfront. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | View across water toward several buildings on shoreline, two with large smokestacks. A man is standing on the shore, and two people are in a boat on the ri... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | James L. Clarke (left) city health inspector, and Lewis B. Kelly (right) president of the Solvit Chemical Corp., are shown as they prepare to scatter the b... |
| Date: | 08 12 1948 |
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| Description: | Two men are scattering barium carbonate rat poison in a city dump located at the end of Fern Drive off Highbury Road near University Avenue. The land was o... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Three men standing in a junkyard with piles of wheels, chairs, and other wooden items in the background near the side of a building. The ground is littered... |
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| Description: | Snapshot taken by Sigurd Olson of refugees scavenging in military trash bins. Although the location is not identified, it is probably in or near Berlin. |
| Date: | 07 1923 |
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| Description: | Rags, discarded shoes, empty bottles and food cans littering the space surrounding a rear entrance to a farmhouse. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Color photo of a man collecting garbage cans from an alleyway and emptying them into a truck with an IH logo on the front of the chassis and a Leach logo o... |
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| Description: | Color photo of men unloading refuse into the back of an International garbage collection truck parked beside a restaurant. The neon signs on the restaurant... |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | A garbage truck is backed up and emptying refuse into what is likely an incinerator. A man is standing at the open driver's door, and another man is sittin... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Right side profile view of a D-300 truck with garbage collecting body parked in front of a brick building. |
| Date: | 09 02 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting on an industrial tractor that is pulling an open wagon. More wagons are behind, and men are directing a crane to either load or unload the... |
| Date: | 09 02 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting on an industrial tractor that is pulling an open wagon. More wagons are behind, and men are directing a crane to either load or unload the... |
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