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Reviewing Nailbox Assembly

Date: 08 1919
Description: Two women and one man, probably rural school teachers, are standing outdoors near a work bench, reviewing the blueprints to construct a nail box.
Photograph

International Harvester Styling Seminar

Date: 1966
Description: International Harvester engineer Ted Ornas with a group of students at the company's first styling seminar at the Fort Wayne motor truck engineering depart...
Photograph

Examining the Wisconsin Meteorite

Date: 1868
Description: Stereograph of Increase Lapham examining a fragment of a meteorite.
Photograph

Construction Crew

Date: 1907
Description: A work crew, and a young boy, posing outdoors at the construction site of the Winnebago County School of Agriculture and Domestic Economy.
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Winnebago County Agricultural School Progress

Date: 1907
Description: Work crew, and a young boy, posing in front and on top of the half-finished Winnebago Agricultural School. A large pile of bricks is to the right of the bu...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Harvesting Machinery

Date: 1883
Description: Inside spread of 4-page brochure featuring illustrations accompanying blocks of text explaining the features of Champion machines. The top left shows a man...
Photograph

Barber Shop

Date: 1910
Description: Man posed standing in a barber shop. His barbershop tools and equipment are behind him on a shelf under the two mirrors, in a cabinet on the left, and on t...
Photograph

Industrial Designer

Date: 1970
Description: Industrial designer putting finishing touches on photograph of proposal for 1970 F4370 Transtar Highway Tractor Truck.
Photograph

Lawson Plant Machine Shop

Date: 1919
Description: Interior view of the Lawson plant. At least 18 people are working in the large, open room. Belt-driven machinery is attached to the rafters of the open cei...
Photograph

Men in Automotive Garage

Date: 1917
Description: Five men standing in the J.W. Meiklejohn & Son's Prison City Garage. The men on the right are wearing business clothes and hats, the men on the left are we...
Photograph

Contact Sheet-Slaughtering Pigs

Date: 1947
Description: A contact sheet showing workers slaughtering and butchering pigs at Tobin Packing Co. The image at bottom right is of a man in a white coat sitting behind ...
Photograph

Walnut Grove Restoration Workers

Date: 08 04 1938
Description: Group portrait of workers posing at the back of the Grist Mill at Walnut Grove. A number of the men are holding their tools. Herbert A. Kellar, in charge o...

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