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Gas Attendant Cleaning Windshields
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Gas attendant Sam Fry cleans the windshields of two International Harvester trucks parked near gas pumps. The original caption reads: "UPPER STORY. Gas Attendant Sam Fry truly gets a special lift out of cleaning the huge glass windshields of these twin Internationals."
1962
International Harvester Company
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WHi 98994
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