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| Date: | 07 12 1926 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a work coverall and a hat with a visor is working on machine parts. In the background is a white backdrop. |
| Date: | 07 12 1926 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a work coverall is working on machine parts. In the background is a white backdrop. |
| Date: | 07 12 1926 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a work coverall and a hat with a visor is working on machine parts. In the background is a white backdrop. |
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| Description: | Gisholt Standard Turret Lathe. The metal stamp states: "Gisholt Machine Co. Madison, Wis., U.S.A." Gisholt was the first company to specialize in heavy typ... |
| Date: | 03 20 1930 |
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| Description: | View inside a 7-D Comet aircraft engine manufacturing and assembly plant. An engine with nose cowling, propeller shaft and cylinders is supported by an eng... |
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| Description: | View of new turret lathe (center) manufactured by American Tool Works. It is standing on a factory floor flanked by other similar machines that are attache... |
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| Description: | Factory workers standing with their arms crossed on the plant floor in the Gisholt Department of the Buick Company Plant #1 alongside lathes, and machined ... |
| Date: | 12 28 1920 |
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| Description: | This automatic turret lathe, photographed inside the factory shop in front of a sweep, was manufactured in 20" and 30" sizes. Produced by 1920, promotional... |
| Date: | 09 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Automatic saddle lathe in the factory shop. Promotional material for the Gisholt Machine Company states that "for duplication of machined castings and forg... |
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| Description: | Stereograph of the interior view of a factory. Machinery, materials, gantries, chain hoists, chains, cables, line shafts, and equipment fill the structure.... |
| Date: | 04 16 1957 |
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| Description: | Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh... |
| Date: | 03 11 1958 |
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| Description: | Employees work in the shop at the E.O. Dahl Building Contractors building at 4556 Winnequah Road in Monona. Eugene O. and John O. Dahl own the business. ... |
| Date: | 1958 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a machine shop, where several people are standing and working at lathes. Around the shop are piles of machined parts, all of which are cyl... |
| Date: | 07 20 1958 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a man checking part of a metal lathe with a caliper. |
| Date: | 01 23 1955 |
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| Description: | Close-up of small metal rings next to a machine. Caption reads: "The tiny rings popping out of this machine at a rapid clip are silver brazing parts... |
| Date: | 10 24 1966 |
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| Description: | A man is spraying paint on the shaft of an arrow. A small child is watching. Caption reads: "GUSTOF OSTLING SPRAYS ON FIRM'S TRADEMARK. 'Helper' Is Grandda... |
| Date: | 07 19 1961 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting at a machine. He is identified as Julius Balko, 74, of Ladysmith. The Balko family had a company which manufactured boat trailers in Ladys... |
| Date: | 04 07 1960 |
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| Description: | A man is working on a metal horn on a lathe. Several similar horns are stacked behind him. Caption reads: "A cornet slowly takes shape on a lathe at... |
| Date: | 10 24 1966 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and holding something in front of a machine. Caption reads: "ELOF ELFSTROM FEEDS NOCK MACHINE. He Designed Precision Device." |
| Date: | 08 23 1960 |
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| Description: | A man is standing and working in front of a machine. Caption reads: "PROSPECTING DEVICE - When John Yungers completes this special project, it will ... |
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