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Manufacturing Automobile Frames

Date: 1954
Description: Workers at the A.O. Smith Corporation in Milwaukee assembling frames for Cadillac automobiles. In 1902 Arthur O. Smith, son of the company's founder, produ...
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Filmite Oil Corporation Building and Employee

Date: 11 10 1944
Description: Madison branch of the Filmite Oil Corporation building (a Trachte metal building), located at 828 East Main Street. Also pictured is W.K. Wilson, warehous...
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Men with Industrial 10-20 Tractor

Date: 10 04 1923
Description: Two men from the Lexington Hardware Corporation use a McCormick-Deering industrial 10-20 tractor to haul a wagon loaded with boxes of metal shingles. A tra...
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Inching Drive

Date: 05 23 1973
Description: Two employees, Bob Weiss and Clyde Tetzloff, attend to a drive that was purchased by Babcock and Wilcox Company and used by AEP Service Corporation. Falk c...
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Mill Drive

Date: 10 28 1966
Description: Mill drive that was later purchased by Traylor Engineering and used by Hudson Cement. Original Falk caption reads, "See engineering files for exact descrip...
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Large Mill Drive

Date: 10 29 1968
Description: Mill drive purchased by Allis Chalmers and used by Duval. Original Falk caption reads, "260 inch x 34 inch single helical split ring gear... part of a phot...
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P&H Type "O" Bridge with a Type "G" Trolley

Date: 04 18 1913
Description: View near crane operator looking down on coal car near exterior of building. Pawling & Harnischfeger type "O" bridge crane with a type "G" trolley in a fou...
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Boring Mill Table

Date: 02 14 1961
Description: Two men crouch atop of the large gear, while another stands at the side overseeing the lift. This gear was purchased and used by the Ladish Company of Cuda...
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Split Ring Gear

Date: 09 15 1966
Description: Falk caption reads, "Photos of ring gear to be displayed at the Association of Iron and Steel Engineers (AISE) show in Cleveland, Ohio, September 26th thro...
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Loading an International Coal Truck

Date: 1947
Description: Man in a shed releases coal from a chute into the back of an International KB-11-F truck owned by the Coal Service Corporation. Another man is in the drive...
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Inching Drive

Date: 06 06 1977
Description: Tim Wollenziehr, a Falk employee drives a fork-lift carrying an inching drive, a later component of a coal pulverizer. This unit was purchased by Babcock a...
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Conveyor Drive

Date: 03 1979
Description: James Blaesius, a Falk employee, operates a fork-lift that carries a component of a conveyor drive. This unit was purchased by Kaisers Engineers and used b...
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P&H Exterior Monorail Hoist with Lumber Handling Unit

Date: 1910
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger exterior monorail hoist crane with lumber handling unit and a man in the cab. The text written on boxcars in the distant background...
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Six P&H 3-Ton Monorail Hoists

Date: 1912
Description: Six Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoists at a lumber mill (probably Pacific Lumber Co.). There are men on the ground as well as operating the cran...
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P&H Type "AN" Crane with Grab Bucket

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Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger crane with a grab bucket used for unloading train cars at the Sullivan Mack Co. There are men on the tracks under the crane. Houses...
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MEC&MC Gantry Crane Constructing a Bridge

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane involved with the construction of a bridge. There is a sign on the crane that reads "The Milw...
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MEC&MC Gantry Crane

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company gantry crane over a railroad track and piles of lumber, with a building on the right. There is a sign that...
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Gasoline Powered Concrete Breaker

Date: 04 18 1916
Description: Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered concrete breaker on a residential street with an operator in the cab and men working on the ground. Houses and yar...
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P&H 3-Ton Traveling Electric Monorail Hoist

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Description: Exterior view of a Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton traveling electric monorail hoist located at James B. Clow & Sons. The cab is stamped "Capacity 6,000 Lbs....
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P&H 3-Ton Standard I-Beam Monorail Hoist in Lumber Mill

Date: 1912
Description: A standard Pawling & Harnischfeger 3-ton monorail hoist with lumber handling unit in a lumber mill. There is an operator in the cab, as well as a man with ...

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