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Workers Tend to Engines at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1916
Description: Two men working on engine components on an assembly line at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com...
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Women Machining Cream Separator Parts at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1918
Description: Female factory workers machining parts for cream separators and International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. An original caption identifies them as "Milwauke...
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Baker and Bread

Date: 05 14 1964
Description: A baker removes multiple loaves of bread from the oven for consumption in both bakery and restaurant.
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The Grill Room

Date: 05 08 1964
Description: A waitress sets restaurant tables in anticipation of evening business.
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Cemetery Maintenance

Date: 08 27 1980
Description: Slightly elevated view of a man mowing the lawn at the Veterans' Administration Wood National Cemetery.
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Railyard Worker on Tractor outside Miller Brewing Co.

Date: 12 26 1935
Description: Worker on an International I-30 industrial tractor used for "spotting" freight cars around the Miller Brewing Company. Two refrigerated rail cars are parke...
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Lawson Airplane Company Factory

Date: 1920
Description: Alfred W. Lawson (second from right) and his employees in front of his South Milwaukee factory with the center section of his new airplane, the Lawson Midn...
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Milwaukee Works Foundry Workers Form Molds

Date: 11 04 1935
Description: Foundry workers forming molds on a turn-table or "merry-go-round" at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Har...
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Loading Steel Castings into International C-15 Truck

Date: 06 15 1936
Description: Two workers loading large steel castings into the back of an International C-15 truck outside a Wehr Steel Company building.
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Delivering Ice from an International Truck

Date: 07 05 1938
Description: Iceman delivering a block of ice from an International D-300 streamlined truck to an office building in downtown Milwaukee. The man worked for the Wisconsi...
Book or Pamphlet

Dennett Harvesting Machine Co. Catalog

Date: 1881
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for Dennett twine binding harvesters, light mowers, and reapers manufactured by the Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. Fea...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Co. Catalog

Date: 1887
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers in a field with a horse-dra...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Junior Grain Binder

Date: 1887
Description: Back cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of the Milwaukee Junior binder, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a young boy and girl playing along ...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1886
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Milwaukee Harvester Company featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer in a field operating a hor...
Book or Pamphlet

Beloit Harvester and Twine Binder Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Beloit harvester and twine binder manufactured by the Parker-Dennett Harvesting Machine Company. The cover features...
Book or Pamphlet

Milwaukee Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1896
Description: Back cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of young boys racing hom...
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Workers Machine Tractor Engine Blocks

Date: 1916
Description: Factory workers machine tractor engine blocks at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company before...
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Hiawatha Locomotive

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Description: The "Chippewa," one of the Milwaukee Road's high speed Hiawatha locomotives at the Union Station. The station clock tower can be seen in the background.
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Milwaukee Railroad Employees

Date: 07 21 1884
Description: Group portrait of Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway employees taken outside the railroad's Milwaukee shop. Most of the men appear to be blue collar wor...

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