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: | 03 19 1955 |
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Description: | A tire factory worker operating the Bag-o-matic. |
Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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Description: | Isabel Olson, an employee of the United Rubber Company in Eau Claire, examining fabric for a pocket in a heavy service tire. Although most women who joine... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | View looking down North Main Street; an automotive repair garage stands at left. |
Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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Description: | Three men stand near ventilation fans for cementing machines on the roof of Building #3. |
Date: | 08 25 1945 |
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Description: | Men working in the tool room, located in the northeast corner of Building #15. |
Date: | 03 14 1947 |
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Description: | Men working in the passenger curing unit "V" on the first floor of Building #8. |
Date: | 06 05 1947 |
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Description: | A view of the duct work in the passenger tire press room on the third floor of Building 7. |
Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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Description: | Theresa Meyer and Alice Lee cutting and splicing stock in the bead department. |
Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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Description: | Veteran tire builder Bill McNair works on a pocket while constructing a heavy service truck tire. Two men wearing suits and hats stand in the left backgrou... |
Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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Description: | A flipper is applied to a bead by Lloyd Barnes. |
Date: | 10 21 1944 |
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Description: | The first tire to be cured in the Gillette Tire Plant is removed from the mold. From left to right are F.B. Davis Jr. (Chairman of the United States Rubber... |
Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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Description: | The first raw tire is placed in a mold at Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are R.L. Chatterson, Julius Berkley, A.B. Smith, M.O. Wick, J.W. Harry Ku... |
Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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Description: | Bill Mcnair rolls the tread onto a tire as two other men look on at the Rubber Company's Gillette Tire Plant. |
Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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Description: | Severin Gullickson applies a circumferential wrap to a wire bead while building a tire at Gillette Tire Plant. |
Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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Description: | Elevated view of Tom Ellington cutting rubber from a roll to make a tire at the Gillette Tire Plant. |
Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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Description: | Tire builder Bill McNair stitches the side walls of a heavy service truck tire at the Gillette Tire Plant as men in suits watch. |
Date: | 01 06 1947 |
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Description: | Tire builder Arnold Brandt rolls the tread onto a heavy service truck tire. |
Date: | 01 06 1947 |
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Description: | Rode LeDue builds an 8.25/20 pocket for use in a heavy service tire. |
Date: | 1964 |
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Description: | An aerial view of the U.S. Rubber Company plant and surrounding environment. |
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