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| Date: | 12 11 1926 |
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| Description: | Fire destroyed the Atlas Flour Mill, causing an estimated $100,000 in damage. Thirteen engine companies, six truck companies, and two fire boats fought the... |
| Date: | 08 07 1929 |
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| Description: | Bondi & Sachtjen Texaco service station, 1462 E. Washington Avenue at Thornton Avenue, with Fuller & Johnson buildings in the background. Text with print r... |
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| Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
| Date: | 05 23 1925 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering all-steel threshers loaded on railroad cars outside International Harvester's West Pullman Works (factory). The factory originally belong... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men loading hundreds of new Farmall B, Farmall A and International crawler tractors (TracTracTors) onto railroad cars with a crane outside... |
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| Description: | Woman sweeping up debris in a warehouse at International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company until... |
| Date: | 02 20 1963 |
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| Description: | Union members of Local 317 in Milwaukee strike outside the Electric Co.'s N. Edison Street plant. It was a very cold night. |
| Date: | 12 11 1928 |
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| Description: | International delivery truck leaving the snow-covered Jas. Shearer Co. lumber and timber yard in Quebec, Canada. |
| Date: | 02 22 1946 |
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| Description: | Madison Gas & Electric Company plant, showing stairway, ceiling beams and machinery, at 115 South Blount Street. |
| Date: | 09 26 1933 |
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| Description: | Nine brick layers with supervisor in engine room. Caption on print reads: "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining at Arcade Manufacturing Co., Freepo... |
| Date: | 1896 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Washburn, with twenty vignettes around side, water in foreground with docks and lumber corral. Thirty-three locations identified in key ... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Bird's-eye view of Waukesha, looking southwest, with insets of State Industrial School, Court House, and Fountain Spring House. |
| Date: | 07 24 1933 |
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| Description: | International Model A-4 motor truck with a 185-inch wheel base, and a horse-drawn wagon hauling Famous Beverwyck Beer. The horse-drawn trailer contains bee... |
| Date: | 04 08 1926 |
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| Description: | McCormick-Deering no. 7 harvester-thresher (combine) in a factory yard. This model features a bagging platform located high on the machine and a single-whe... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Businessmen standing next to an International L-185 truck owned by the Max Branovan Shoe Company. The trailer is labeled "A. O. Smith Company Shoemobile". |
| Date: | 05 12 1952 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Research Products employees on the factory floor, 1011-1015 East Washington Avenue, having received the National Safety Council Award for... |
| Date: | 11 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Man operating a ventilator testing cabinet at W.R. Carnes Company. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Chippewa Falls from the south side of the river below the falls. Includes the Sheely House Tavern, railway buildings, box cars, a train with five passenger... |
| Date: | 11 05 1954 |
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| Description: | Man standing on a platform ladder adjusting a ceiling ventilator in the testing room at W.R. Carnes Company, wide angle view. |
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