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| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | View from road of the Buena Vista House. There is a utility pole in front with many wires attached. This Greek revival inn was erected in 1843 by Samuel R.... |
| Date: | 11 26 1918 |
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| Description: | Offices at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as "Auburn Works"). The offices are empty except for a lone switchboard operator. A sign ha... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Showroom of the Long Beach branch house featuring International trucks and parts on the showroom floor. There is an enlarged photograph or mural displayed ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | An interior view of a diner, showing two semi-circular counters with stools and booths along the walls. There is a jukebox on the right and a root beer bar... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Professor Perry Holden (right) and an unidentified man sitting at a desk and looking over promotional materials from International Harvester's Agricultural... |
| Date: | 01 12 1954 |
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| Description: | Dena Smith is the private secretary for her husband, Warren Smith, the Wisconsin State Treasurer. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Portrait of William Rice Odell sitting at his desk. A curtain on a window in the background bears the International Harvester Company logo. Odell graduated... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Hager City Telephone Company of Hager City, Wisconsin, with a line of telephone poles and wires connecting a man in a business suit sitti... |
| Date: | 11 18 1957 |
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| Description: | Two women relax in the lounge of Kroger's Midvale Plaza, 525 South Midvale Boulevard, while shopping at the supermarket. The lounge is a special feature of... |
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| Description: | Photograph of Eydie V. Watts, member of the Milwaukee City Civil Service Commssion. Ms. Watts sits at her desk in an office. She is wearing a dress or blou... |
| Date: | 10 2012 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Curt Reithel, a La Crosse County Democratic Headquarters worker, on the phone during the 2012 Election run-up. She is seated at a desk. A brick wall i... |
| Date: | 02 11 2016 |
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| Description: | View of journalists sitting behind long tables working in the media filing center during the debate. A man sitting in the foreground is looking down at his... |
| Date: | 12 31 1958 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Mary Snell who has been the post office telephone operator for almost 19 years. She answers complaints, refers calls, and gives information for hundre... |
| Date: | 11 02 1960 |
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| Description: | The smashed-in front facade of the Time Realty Co. office, 2434 University Avenue, as a result of a car backing up with a stuck accelerator. Seen inside th... |
| Date: | 1962 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of reception area in office. A woman wearing a white coat and hat is behind the desk on the telephone. A man is standing at the desk on the r... |
| Date: | 03 03 1911 |
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| Description: | View of four people in a large, wood-panelled office with a high ceiling. One woman is sitting on the left behind a large desk in front of a safe built int... |
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