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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A large room with manufacturing equipment at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's factory ("reaper works") in Chicago. Men in work clothes are at so... |
| Date: | 05 08 1918 |
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| Description: | Machinery at International Harvester's McCormick Works. Parts are layed out in front of the machine, and "Good Night" is written on the side in chalk. |
| Date: | 1882 |
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| Description: | A man shows off an incandescent lamp switchboard with bamboo filiament, lamp receptacle with wooden base, current and pressure indicators and controlling d... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Interior shot of a group of men, women and boys at the Gillette Tire Company. The Gillette Safety Tire Company was founded in Eau Claire in 1916 and the cr... |
| Date: | 06 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue, showing two men with the folding machine. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using a circling machine to create a barrel head at the Hess Cooperage. |
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| Description: | Display of Maytag wringer-type washing machines in the Industry Building at the Wisconsin State Fair. In the background is a display for Miller Beer, 5 cen... |
| Date: | 03 26 1925 |
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| Description: | Female workers binding publications Harvester Press, International Harvester's in-house print shop. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Women sewing the bindings of publications at Harvester Press, International Harvester's in-house print shop. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 01 14 1954 |
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| Description: | Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ... |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Two women processing hemp fibers at the DeForest hemp mill during World War II. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Lula Lawrence, lsft, and Esther Gunderson combing hemp fibers. In the background two women are sorting hemp fiber bundles for rope and cordage during Worl... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Man operating a drill press at Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, producing war materiel during World War II. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Two men processing hemp in a DeForest plant for use as cord and rope during World War II. The men are feeding hemp into a rolling machine which crushes the... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II. |
| Date: | 06 21 1970 |
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| Description: | Old steam generator at the State Capital Heating and Power Plant, 624 East Main Street, with new turbine generators in the background. |
| Date: | 08 31 1955 |
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| Description: | Ethel Anderson at the linotype machine in the composing room of Madison Newspapers Incorporated. |
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| Description: | Using a power tool, a member of the Amalgamated Meatcutters and Butcher Workmen of North America is cutting up a hanging beef carcass. |
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| Description: | Fruit pies speed past Morton assembly line worker Ethel McCollough on their way to the machine in which they will be boxed for freezing. |
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