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Magazine or Periodical

Cover of American Machinist

Date: 1951
Description: The cover of an issue of American Machinist (issued on August 20, 1951). A man is operating a machine.
Photograph

Gisholt Commerical Art

Date: 1942
Description: Illustration of an airbrushed composite photograph picturing an older worker standing with his arm around a young man and pointing to a machine.
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 
Description: Illustrative art of machine operator working with a turret.
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 08 1942
Description: Illustration art of a machine operator in work clothes and a billed cap with safety goggles standing next to a Type S Dynetric Balancer at the Howell Elect...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 
Description: Illustration art of a full-length view of a female factory worker, waving her right hand as she steps toward the viewer. She is wearing belted coveralls ov...
Drawing

Farm Scene

Date: 
Description: Pen and Ink drawing of a man digging in a small, fenced-in field. Two cows, a haystack and numerous farm buildings are in the yard, and a farmhouse, trees ...
Painting

Gisholt Lathe and Operater

Date: 
Description: Grey-tone painting of a Gisholt Automatic Lathe with a male operater standing on the right.
Painting

Operater with a Gisholt Lathe

Date: 
Description: A man standing on the left has his hands on the control panel of a Gisholt balancing machine. Graytone painting.
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 
Description: Color illustration art of a man operating a lathe at Gisholt Machine Company. A photograph has been heavily airbrushed with color.
Drawing

"Keep 'Em Rolling"

Date: 
Description: A machinist on the left is having trouble with the machine, and is smoking a pipe and blowing smoke out of his mouth. The young machinist on the right is m...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 
Description: Machinist cooling a six-sided turret head at Gisholt Machine Company.
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 
Description: Illustration art of a man standing by machinery is cupping his ear and listening to the sound of the machine at work. A kitten is sitting inside the machin...
Drawing

"Balanced Performace"

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of men working on the assembly line at Rayovac. The title is "Balanced Performance." Written in pencil on parts of the drawing are "Pitch," "...
Drawing

"Have That Automation Expert See Me"

Date: 
Description: Satirical ink-on-paper cartoon about corporate culture. It pictures a man holding a wrench in his hand is running on a treadmill attached to a machine with...
Drawing

Fisherman at a Tavern

Date: 
Description: A fisherman in a ball cap and socks is sitting on a bar stool and talking to the bartender, who is smoking a cigarette and holding a liquor bottle. His wad...
Drawing

Farm Scene

Date: 
Description: Pen and ink drawing farm scene of a man digging in a small, fenced-in plot of bare earth land. The scene includes two cows, two birds, a haystack, windmill...
Drawing

Business is Picking Up!

Date: 
Description: View of a factory and a smokestack. There is a cutaway through the wall, showing a man sitting in a chair in front of a No Smoking sign. The man is smoking...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 07 01 1952
Description: Illustration art of two men in work clothes standing on a factory floor by a turret lathe and work benches talking about newly manufactured machine parts l...
Drawing

"This Isn't a Tunnel!"

Date: 1941
Description: Drawing of a railroad employee standing on a handcar on the tracks painting the surface of a "tunnel" with a brush. Another man is looking at him with a ha...
Print

"Wishing You 9 Lives" Birthday Card

Date: 
Description: Four-fold, copy art birthday card with a photograph of a cat on the front cover, with the caption: "Wishing You 9 Lives." Inside spread of a photograph of ...

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