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Telephone Line Repairmen at Work

Date: 08 15 1929
Description: A crew of telephone line repairmen working on a rural line with their International truck parked below them. An IH truck, with storage compartments sitting...
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Family Farmers Market

Date: 07 27 1988
Description: Cousins set up a road-side stand to sell fruits and vegetables grown by their grandfather.
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Telephone Line Repairmen with International Service Truck

Date: 08 15 1929
Description: Telephone line repairmen preparing to work on a residential line. One is climbing a ladder and the other is setting up a soldering unit. Their Internationa...
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Workmen Installing Telephone Poles

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Description: Workmen erecting a telephone pole with a horse team.
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Men Install Pole with Modified 10-20 Industrial Tractor

Date: 08 09 1927
Description: Men working along a road with a modified McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor with attached trailor and post hole digging rig. The men work for Shipp...
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Construction Worker Talking on Telephone

Date: 1969
Description: Construction worker talking in a telephone booth.
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City Line Department

Date: 12 16 1926
Description: Workmen with the City Line Department use an International Model 63 truck to erect a power line or telephone pole near a bridge.
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First 24 Hour Outdoor Pay Phone Booth

Date: 11 18 1949
Description: Marjorie White of 25 East Dayton Street wearing a fur coat and head scarf while using what is alleged to be the first 24-hour, outdoor-accessible pay phone...
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Bike and Car Road Scene

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Description: View toward a boy with his bicycle at the entrance to Putnam Hill Park on the left. There are telephone poles and trees in the center, street railroad trac...
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Covering the President

Date: 1956
Description: Rear view of a parade of reporters in open cars following President Eisenhower on a rural road in Iowa. The President is standing in an open car at the rig...
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Patient and Nurse at Saint Mary's Sanatorium

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Description: A male patient sits in bed on the porch and receives a meal from a nurse at Saint Mary's Sanatorium, founded in 1880 by Bishop Salpointe. A telephone sits ...
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Teenage Female with Cellphone

Date: 2010
Description: Teenage girl using cellphone while sitting on a bench outdoors.
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Zieggy's

Date: 09 07 2001
Description: "Zieggy's is at 933 Indiana Avenue in Sheboygan, WI. When Shirley had some medical attention at St. Lukes's Hospital, her roommate recommended Zieggy's."
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500 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the north side of the 500 block of State Street. Business include: The Towers (student apartments), Pantorium Dry Cleaners, The...
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300 Block of State Street

Date: 06 1967
Description: Composite panoramic view of the south side of the 300 block of State Street. Businesses include: Montgomery Ward (on North Henry Street), Colonial Shoppe E...
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Kay Hren

Date: 12 1995
Description: Kay Hren speaking with her husband on an early model cell phone. Photograph taken at Green Bay Packers game.
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Hunters' Gun Safety Instruction

Date: 11 1953
Description: Jerry Teesdale, a member of the Winnequah Gun Club, keeps in phone contact with men manning the targets during a gun safety session for hunters.
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Texting

Date: 2012
Description: Trixie, a young woman texting while standing on the sidewalk on 7th Street. She is wearing eyeglasses, a houndstooth patterned coat with jeans, and sheepsk...
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Warrens Post Office

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Description: View towards two men and two women posing standing on the porch of a wooden store building on a city street, with three wagons and a horse on the right. Lo...
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Group Posing in front of the Post Office

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Description: Outdoor group portrait of two men displaying two teams of two horses which are hitched to buggies in front of a post office building. A group of people are...

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