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Photograph

Sid Lighting Up a Cigar

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Description: Sid standing and lighting up a cigar in the doorway of a room at work. Behind him is a table and chair, and outside of the window is a parked automobile.
Photograph

Road Work Near Red Dot

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Description: Workers doing road work near the Red Dot factory, in the background, on East Washington Avenue.
Photograph

Railroad Workers

Date: 1940
Description: Two men, railroad workers, fixing the wooden railroad ties. In the background are railroad cars on another set of railroad tracks.m
Drawing

"Balanced Performace"

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Description: Elevated view of men working on the assembly line at Rayovac. The title is "Balanced Performance." Written in pencil on parts of the drawing are "Pitch," "...
Photograph

Gisholt Machine Company Employee Pouring Molten Metal

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Description: A Gisholt Machine Company factory worker, wearing protective glasses, is using a wheel to position a large cauldron for pouring molten metal into a mold to...
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Peter H. Burno Steam Engine

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Description: Peter Burno posing with the steam locomotive he built which is on display behind a fence at House on the Rock. The sign above the train reads: "Peter H. Bu...
Drawing

"This Isn't a Tunnel!"

Date: 1941
Description: Drawing of a railroad employee standing on a handcar on the tracks painting the surface of a "tunnel" with a brush. Another man is looking at him with a ha...

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