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n the 1930s and again in 1940, photographer Fred R. Jolly and an assistant drove V-8-powered Ford sedan deliveries across the United States to photograph the nation’s people and places for Caterpillar. They covered 13,000 miles from Jolly’s home in Peoria, Ill., to Cape Cod, Mass., in a 1937 Ford sedan delivery. On that trip, they stopped along the Atlantic Ocean and then drove west to International Falls, Minn., located along the Canadian border, followed by a drive even farther west

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