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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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Paving block cutters at work at the the Montello Granite Company. Two men holding large hammers are posing underneath a tarp which is shading large pieces ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Worker assembling a tank at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two miners at work with shovel and hammer inside International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. |
| 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 ... |
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| Description: | A stonecutter, a cooper or smith (identified by the tools of their trade) and a girl with a pail are standing on the left in contrast to a group of ladies ... |
| 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: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Male students at the State School for the Deaf practice woodworking in one of the school's shops. |
| 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; ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A factory worker using a hammer to assemble a wagon wheel at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. |
| Date: | 09 19 1928 |
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| Description: | A man is using a hammer on the front wheel assembly of a Farmall Regular tractor. |
| Date: | 02 19 1949 |
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| Description: | Madison Police Inspector Philip H. Oakey is shown demolishing three "one-armed bandits." They had been stored in the vault of police headquarters since the... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape... |
| Date: | 10 04 1946 |
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| Description: | Men work with an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in construction of the Merriman Dam. The tractor was owned by S.A. Healy Co., White Plains, Ne... |
| Date: | 05 03 1929 |
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| Description: | Interior, most likely a shop or service area, at the Ottawa Farm Machinery Company, an International Harvester dealership. In the shop are stools, carts, c... |
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| Description: | Workers at the Malleable Iron Range Company prepare to rivet the top of a stove. The top is fitted to the body of the stove with a powerful leverage system... |
| Date: | 12 29 1961 |
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| Description: | Students work in a shoe rebuilding class at the Milwaukee Vocational and Adult Schools. |
| Date: | 06 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is standing on a wooden barrel which is resting on a wooden box on concrete entrance steps near a door. He is using a hammer to fix a window frame. T... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program." |
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