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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mechanics working inside the service center of an International Harvester dealership. The door of one of the trucks is painted "McCormick-Deering Store." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Mechanic taking apart a tractor engine in the service department of the Snake River Equipment Company, an International Harvester dealership. An Internatio... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A workman grinds a cylinder head at Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company, 754 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 27 1940 |
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| Description: | Mechanic demonstrating products to a group of mechanics in the work shop, Schultz Tire and Battery Service, 1336 Regent Street. |
| Date: | 10 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior of Holmes Tire and Supply Company, 431 West Main Street. View of the recapping department with two workers, equipment, and many tires of different... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers installing rear wheels and tires on Farmall tractors at International Harvester's Farmall Works. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Possibly Louis J. Ropson, a farmer and violin maker from Luxemburg who lived in Dyckesville. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two mechanics working on tractors and implements in the service shop of Rogers Truck & Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The tracto... |
| Date: | 04 02 1947 |
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| Description: | Winnebago Auto Replacement Company, 103 North Park Street. Interior view showing machine shop with five machinists at work. |
| Date: | 12 20 1944 |
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| Description: | A mechanic in the service department of Hefty Sales Corporation is preparing to do a complete overhaul of a washing machine. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Men and women working on the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Date: | 01 19 1945 |
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| Description: | Edgewood fence along Wingra Drive entrance, which had been opened to the public after closing by the Dominican Sisters of Edgewood Academy. Shown is the ro... |
| Date: | 03 27 1945 |
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| Description: | Professor J.F. Kienitz, on the left, and Edward J. Law, committee member of the Historic American Buildings Survey in Wisconsin, examining a miniature mode... |
| Date: | 07 18 1946 |
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| Description: | Man standing in flood water at the building under construction for Forsberg Paper Box Company, 2107 Fordem Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 20 1946 |
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| Description: | Ms. Alvin (Eleanor) Moore, 4219 Doncaster Drive, and her brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Bakken of Mt. Horeb, installing the roof at the Moo... |
| Date: | 02 13 1948 |
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| Description: | Kayer Motors mechanic working on servicing a truck. Kayser Motors is located at 701 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 04 13 1949 |
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| Description: | Five automotive technicians work on engines inside the engine rebuilding department at Kayser Motors. |
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