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Filter: COLLECTION_NAME of Chester Hjörtur Thordarson papers, 1880-1945
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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
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| Description: | Rendering of a Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company product. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of electical apparatus, famo... |
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| Description: | Workers hand wind filament on transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of el... |
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| Description: | Workers get transformers ready for distribution in the shipping department at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago... |
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| Description: | Speed presses stamp out core laminations for transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and man... |
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| Description: | The general press room is where sheet metal is made into housing for transformers, and fibre and bakelite insulators are formed at Thordarson Electical Man... |
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| Description: | Workers construct a 1,000,000 volt coil at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of a lodge, probably on Rock Island in Door County. Two men pose in front of the building. |
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| Description: | Studio portrait of Chester Thordarson seated with books and a pencil. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the "Pottawatomie" lighthouse in snowy expanse of land, with the lake in the background. |
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| Description: | Snow-covered buildings of a fishing village on Rock Island (also known as Pottawatomie Island). |
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| Description: | An old log cabin on snowy land on Rock Island (also known as Pottawatomie Island). |
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| Description: | "Big" Bill Thompson (center) poses with two friends from Chicago in front of a lodge. |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Thordarson library featuring a massive fireplace with two men posing on either side of it. The building is of stone, with arched windo... |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Thordarson library with bookcases and a spectacular chandelier with buffalo horns. The building is of stone, with arched windows. |
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| Description: | Hand-colored view of the Thordarson estate including the boathouse and a stone-paved path with benches. |
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