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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view toward the Chippewa Shoe Manufacturing Company building, Bay Street & River Street, looking north. Caption reads: "Chippewa Shoe Mfg... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. office building. Caption reads: "Office Building, Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., West Allis, Wis." |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the John Gund Brewing Company buildings, with the Mississippi River in the background. Caption reads: "John Gund Brewing Co., La Crosse, W... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the brewery with the Mississippi River in the background. Caption reads: "G. Heileman Brewing Co., La Crosse, Wis." |
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| Description: | Diamond Match Factory. At the time it was built, it was the largest factory of its kind in America. Caption reads: "New Diamond Match Factory, Oshkosh, Wis... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Railroad loading platform with a Gurney Refrigerator Company plant in the far background. On the far left a man pulls a hand cart, in the center a man sits... |
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| Description: | Exterior view across street toward two industrial buildings. A group of people are gathered in the street in front. Caption reads: "Cedarburg Woolen Mills,... |
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| Description: | Colored postcard of an illustration of a three-story industrial building on the other side of the street. There is an automobile driving by. Caption reads:... |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Parker Pen Factory, with a large, electric sign on the roof. Caption reads: "Parker Pen Company, Janesville, Wis." |
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| Description: | View of the administrative building at the Kohler Plant. Caption reads: "General Office, Kohler Co., Kohler, Wis." |
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| Description: | View across road toward the Knitting Mills building. There is a Model T parked in front. Caption reads: "Marinette Knitting Mills, Marinette, Wis." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Ripon Knitting Works, Ripon, Wis." A large, brick, three-story building with windows to the basement in the foundation. It has an arc... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Spellman Granite Works, Sauk City, Wisconsin" and "Manufacturing Plant." Two images, one above the other, an exterior and interior vi... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Schreiers Brewery, Sheboygan, Wis." The brewery was founded in 1856 by Konrad Schreier. A fire completely destroyed the original brew... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "United States Rubber Company, Stoughton, Wis." A brick and metal factory building with many windows. Still manufacturing today, Uniro... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Oconomowoc Canning Co. Sun Prairie, Wis." A group of buildings at a canning factory. A sign on the right reads: "Oconomowoc Canning C... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Canning Co. Assn. Waterloo, Wis." Buildings, wagons and automobiles surround a canning factory. Founded in 1900, it was later purchas... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "West Bend, Wis.,_______190___" with space for the date. An engraving of the Enger-Kress Pocket Book Company printed in blue ink. Orig... |
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