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| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the shop in Eilert Farm Equipment Company, showing the drill press and the big vise, in the center. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Rows of machinery, parts and tools in the forge shop at International Harvester's Hamilton Works in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1936 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers building sickle bars for mowers at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in ... |
| Date: | 11 04 1943 |
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| Description: | Man standing on folding ladder in Madison-Kipp Corp., with scene of factory floor in the background. |
| 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: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson is opening confiscated slot machines to extract money, and Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, is smashing other confisc... |
| Date: | 06 10 1935 |
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| Description: | Andrew Serstad, turnkey at the county jail, using a sledge hammer to smash a confiscated slot machine, with Sheriff Lawrence O. Larson looking on. |
| 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 04 1934 |
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| Description: | J.A. Brady Garage interior showing National Safety Clinic inspection machines. Joseph A. "Doc" Brady died in 1931. John Eichman became manager. |
| 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: | 03 12 1929 |
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| Description: | Concrete block machine as seen from the front, at Madison Silo Co. |
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| Description: | Developers, local dignitaries, and other businessmen participate in a ground-breaking ceremony for the construction of the Park Tower Apartments. |
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| Description: | A man cuts a block of wood on a table saw in his workshop. |
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| Description: | Lantern slide illustration of the interior of the McCormick Reaper Works(?) as it appeared in 1860. Shows men stoking a boiler, working at a work bench, a... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Destroying slot machines and other illegal gambling devices at Law Park. From L to R: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigaret tax division; ... |
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