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| Description: | French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Franklin D. Roosevelt, Wisconsin Governor Julius P. Heil, and other officials touring the Allis-Chalmers plant. |
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| Description: | Plate Steel Spiral Casing for 70,000 horse-power Niagara Falls hydraulic turbine unit at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company erecting shop. The castin... |
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| Description: | Red Dot Foods Inc., potato chip plant, 1441 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Factory worker tightening bolts on a Farmall tractor on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men pose at the Barron Coop Creamery next to the churns full of butter, which is ready to be packed into the small barrels nearby. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing the McCormick Reaper Works at night. The factory was in operation from 1873-1961. I... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Diesel engine assembly line at Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Chattanooga chilled plows. Includes a color illustration of a man using a walking plow behind two horses as viewed... |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A male worker in a cheese-making factory places a Wisconsin stamp on cheeses. |
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| Description: | Men working on the automobile assembly line in the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Company. |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Interior of Adirondack Bats, Inc. baseball bat plant. These bats, made from New York and Pennsylvania white ash, received their final finish and are ready ... |
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| Description: | General Motors chassis assembly. Men are working among the machinery. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Man, most likely R.G. Brooks, showing a Milwaukee grain binder to three Native Americans in traditional dress in front of McCormick Works. One of the Nativ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1905 |
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| Description: | International Harvester's Deering Works as seen from railroad tracks near the waterfront. The factory was located at Fullerton and Clybourn Avenues, across... |
| Date: | 07 13 1905 |
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| Description: | Two workmen inspecting mower wheels at International Harvester's Deering Works. The Deering Works was originally built by William Deering for the Deering H... |
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