Photograph
Worker at Airplane Assembly Plant
| View towards a factory man working at a plant that assembled Comet engines for aircraft. The man is standing at a desk fitted with instruments in a narrow brick office space. The opposite wall has a Foamite fire extinguisher mounted to the wall and a candlestick telephone on a desk. |
| Image ID: | 133104 |
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| Creation Date: | 01 24 1930 |
| Creator Name: | Unknown |
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| Collection Name: | Gisholt Machine Company negatives and photographs, circa 1900-circa 1960 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
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| This image is one of forty-nine photographs in this Gisholt Machine Company collection documenting the Comet Engine Corporation. This photograph has two companion pictures; see also Image ID's: 133098 and 133106. Gisholt Machine Company purchased the the Comet factory in Oakland, California and moved it to Madison, Wisconsin in 1929. |
| Work clothes |
| Aircraft industry |
| Aircraft supplies industry |
| Factories |
| Indoor photography |
| Men |
| Airplane engines |
| Telephone |
| Blue collar workers |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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