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Worker Tending Machine at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: A worker at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works draining fluid from a machine with a large gear poised over his head. The factory was owned by the Mi...
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Concrete Pour at Clintonville

Date: 1914
Description: Paving the main street with concrete was an occasion that brought out a large part of the Clintonville community to watch.
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Factory Workers at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Factory workers machine parts at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works.
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Worker Heats Metal at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: A worker prepares to stamp a heated metal rod at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works (factory).
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Horizontal Hole Boring Drill

Date: 1914
Description: A horizontal hole boring drill, presumably at the Pawling & Harnischeger factory, drilling holes into crane parts. There is a man on the lift operating the...
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Gas-Powered Concrete Tamper/Breaker

Date: 1914
Description: Man operating a gas-powered concrete tamper/breaker that is being used to consolidate concrete over ditches after laying water or sewage main pipes. There ...
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Gas-Powered Concrete Breaker

Date: 1914
Description: Man operating a Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on the street. The machine is stamped "Pawling & Harnischfeger Co. Milwaukee, Wis." Pedestrians ar...
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Laundry Machinery

Date: 1914
Description: The laundry machinery at the Pythian Orphans' Home with irons sitting on ironing boards. Caption reads: "Laundry."
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Austrian Soldiers in a Destroyed Factory Building

Date: 1914
Description: Austrian soldiers clearing the rubble of a large factory in order to use bricks and stones for the repair of bad roadways.

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