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| Date: | 05 28 1930 |
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| Description: | Two International Harvester factory workers using a large pneumatic vise to form frame components. The scene may be at the company's Auburn (formerly Osbor... |
| Date: | 05 26 1932 |
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| Description: | The repair shop of the Morey Airplane Company at Royal Airport in Madison. Only months after this picture was taken, Howard Morey lost both his hangar and ... |
| Date: | 08 07 1939 |
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| Description: | Howard Sechrest, of Howard Welding & Machine Co., wears goggles and welds in the boiler at the Loraine Hotel. |
| Date: | 05 10 1935 |
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| Description: | View looking up towards a man laying new shingles on the roof of a house at 341 West Wilson Street. |
| Date: | 09 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men retreading tires at Edwards Tire Company, located at 124 W. Main Street. |
| Date: | 05 26 1933 |
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| Description: | Two men inspecting an automobile on the RITE-Way wheel aligning and axle-straightening machine at Schultz Tire and Battery Co., 1336 Regent Street. |
| Date: | 08 13 1931 |
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| Description: | Greg Kabat, University of Wisconsin football player, shovels dirt from the back of a truck at Camp Randall. |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Steeplejacks Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, in the cap, repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. The photograph was... |
| Date: | 08 05 1931 |
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| Description: | Close-up of Don Coffey, in the foreground, and Bruce Russell, wearing the cap, steeplejacks repointing the University of Wisconsin heating plant chimney. P... |
| Date: | 05 20 1931 |
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| Description: | View of the Linden blacksmith shop, showing forge and equipment. The introduction of motorized farm equipment and automobiles led to the virtual disappeara... |
| Date: | 03 06 1931 |
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| Description: | Nick Knechtges, watchmaker, at his workbench in his home shop. |
| Date: | 12 26 1930 |
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| Description: | A machinist working at the Charles H. Halperin machine shop, located at 209 S. Park Street. |
| Date: | 08 16 1930 |
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| Description: | A mechanic employed by Capital Garage, 608-612 East Washington Avenue in Madison, greases the wheel bearings of an automobile on the hoist. |
| Date: | 09 07 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building at 1513 University Avenue under construction. Men are working on the steel framework. A mas... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Mechanic working on a tractor in the service station at T.A. Rhudy and Son, an International Harvester farm equipment and truck dealership. |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Two men seated inside a tent at the digging site at Interstate Park. |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a ribes eradication crew that was part of the white pine blister rust effort in a Barron County forest. The caption indicates tha... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A crew of Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) youth starting for the field where they were working on ribes eradication as part of the effort to defeat the w... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's Springfield Works. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Factory worker in a foundry at the Chattanooga Plow Works fills a cart with hot metal. A blurred image of another worker that passed through the scene whil... |
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