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Two Men Inspecting a Gear

Date: 11 21 1958
Description: Two men inspect a large gear which was later purchased by DeLaval Steam Turbine Company of Trenton, New Jersey. Original Falk caption reads, "This gear is ...
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Spacer Coupling

Date: 08 30 1965
Description: Man standing near spacer coupling that Chicago Bridge and Iron-East Chicago Industry later purchased and Inland Steel later used. Falk caption reads, "3340...
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Couplings

Date: 05 1965
Description: Couplings that were purchased by U.S. Steel (Allegheny Project) and used by Gary Steel Works. The man in the photograph is D. Ferch. There is also a man wo...
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Secondary TCD Drives

Date: 05 1965
Description: Secondary TCD drive that was purchased by U.S. Steel (Allegheny Project) and used by Gary Steel Works. The male employee in the photograph is Jim Kolbeck.
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Large Pinion Stand

Date: 05 1965
Description: Pinion stand that was purchased by U.S. Steel (Allegheny Project) and used by Gary Steel Works. Male employee in the photograph is Jim Kolbeck.
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Solid Foot Radicons

Date: 06 24 1966
Description: Solid foot radicons. Original Falk caption reads, "43145 is stock of solid-foot radicons in plant 2." The male employee in the photograph is Jim Jones.
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Centrifugal Pump

Date: 09 15 1966
Description: 240P double piloted coupling. This coupling helps compile the centrifugal pump that was purchased by Foster Wheeler Corporation and later used by Commonwea...
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Man Standing in Gear Couplings

Date: 12 30 1966
Description: The 220 G20 gear coupling pictured was later purchased by L.W. Nash Company. Falk caption reads, "220 G20 Gear Coupling per assembly, Drawing number 418288...
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Shaft Mount BOF Drive

Date: 05 25 1967
Description: BOF drive that was later purchased by Chicago Bridge and Iron Company and used by Crucible Steel of Midland, Pennsylvania.
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Large Mill Drive

Date: 10 29 1968
Description: Mill drive purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by Duval. Original Falk caption reads, "260 inch x 34 inch single helical split ring gear... part of a phot...
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Superintendents at St. Paul Works

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Factory superintendent at St. Paul Works. "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. J.E. Harris, left, superintendent of St. Paul Works, confers with M.V....
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100,000th Crankcase at Melrose Park Works

Date: 03 1974
Description: A group of male and female workers are posing around a sign and a crankcase sitting on the factory floor. The sign reads "Melrose Park Plant / March, 1974 ...
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Gisholt Machine Company Employees Working with Molten Metal

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Description: Two employees of Gisholt Machine Company are pouring molten metal from large cauldrons into molds as another worker looks on. A company supervisor is stand...
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Sid in a Printing Room

Date: 12 1968
Description: Sid posing next to the print dryer in the printing room near the darkroom at Gisholt Machine Company. He has his signature cigar, holding it to his mouth. ...
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Sid in Printing Room

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Description: Sid posing in the printing room near a darkroom at Gisholt Machine Company. He is wearing a long-sleeved white shirt with a patterned bow tie. A print drye...
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Sid in Printing Room

Date: 12 1968
Description: Sid poses rakishly in the printing room near the darkroom at Gisholt Machine Company. He is wearing a long-sleeved white shirt with a patterned bow tie. A ...
Drawing

Gisholt Closed by G&L

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Description: Political flyer by Sid that reads: "Dedicated to high salaried no dividend corporations." Below is an illustration of a pig wearing a suit and tie, holdin...
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Gisholt Machine Company Plant

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Description: Elevated view of factory floor at the Gisholt plant, located in the 1200 and 1300 blocks of East Washington Avenue. There is a bridge crane, rows of work s...

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