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Perspective Map of Beloit

Date: 1890
Description: Bird's-eye map of Beloit with insets of Williams Engine Works, Eclipse Wind Engine Co., and John Foster & Co. Turtle Creek is in the lower section, and the...
Postcard

Fairbanks-Morse & Company in Beloit

Date: 1910
Description: Colorized image of the Fairbanks-Morse & Company buildings.
Photograph

Toledo Scale

Date: 01 08 1928
Description: Man using a Toledo scale at the Mernick Dairy.
Photograph

Working at the Parker Pen Factory

Date: 10 16 1952
Description: A worker is using a machine to cut metal strips for fountain pen nibs at the Parker Pen factory.
Photograph

Fairbanks, Morse & Co.

Date: 
Description: Elevated winter view of the company buildings and residential area, with smokestacks in the background.
Postcard

Fairbanks, Morse Plant in the Summer

Date: 
Description: Elevated view of the plant and residential area, with smokestacks. Caption reads: "Birds-eye View of Fairbanks Morse Plant, Beloit, Wis."
Photograph

View along the Rock River

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view over houses towards the industrial area along the Rock River.
Photograph

View along the Rock River

Date: 1900
Description: Oval-framed view of the industrial area along the Rock River.
Photograph

Woman in front of Factory

Date: 
Description: Woman worker with her back turned to the camera standing in front of the Clintonville Four Wheel Drive factory.
Photograph

Sewerage Disposal Plant

Date: 1934
Description: Aerial view of Janesville showing the river fill for the new sewerage disposal plant.
Photograph

No. 1 Cotton Mill

Date: 1893
Description: The No. 1 Cotton Mill. Plank sidewalk in foreground.
Photograph

Parker Pen Screw Machine Department

Date: 1925
Description: Workers in the Parker Pen Screw Machine Department.
Photograph

GM Assembly Line

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Description: Assembly line workers at the General Motors plant.
Photograph

General Motors Employees

Date: 1987
Description: Employees of the General Motors plant in head to work.
Photograph

GM Automobile Frame in Factory

Date: 1987
Description: An automobile frame on the assembly line at the General Motors plant.
Photograph

General Motors Parking Lot

Date: 1960
Description: Parking lot at the General Motors plant.
Photograph

Highway Trailer Factory

Date: 1917
Description: Original factory of the Highway Trailers Company in Edgerton. Beginning in 1909 the factory was the site of a wagon works, but in 1917 it made a rather ty...
Photograph

Box Factory

Date: 
Description: Interior of building with equipment and exposed beams.
Photograph

Miss Zelma Purchase

Date: 1948
Description: Miss Zelma Purchase, of the Home Economics Department at International Harvester's Evansville Works, sits at a table with folded hands.
Photograph

Nutrena Feeds Factory

Date: 
Description: Elevated view over a freight train of the Nutrena Feeds factory.

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