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Gisholt Metal Worker #1

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Description: Straight-on standing portrait of a Gisholt laborer in work apron, suspenders, boots and brimmed hat. Taken outdoors before a white sweep, he is standing wi...
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Gisholt Metal Worker #2

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Description: Portrait oftwo Gisholt laborers. One man is in profile and the other is facing front. They are wearing work aprons, suspenders, boots and brimmed hats. Tak...
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Gisholt Metal Worker #3

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Description: Portrait of two Gisholt laborers. One man is in profile and the other is facing front. They are wearing work aprons, suspenders, boots and brimmed hats. Ta...
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Gisholt Metal Worker #4

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Description: Portrait of two Gisholt laborers. One man is in profile and the other is in semi-profile. They are wearing work aprons, suspenders, boots and brimmed hats....
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Gisholt Machine Co. Band

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Description: Group portrait of the Gisholt Machine Company band. Seventeen musicians are shown in three rows.
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Baseball Players

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Description: Group portrait of baseball players, wearing jerseys from Madison collegiate and amateur teams including the Badgers, Crescents and Silver Lake. The players...
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Gisholt Machine Company Plant

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Description: Elevated view of factory floor at the Gisholt plant, located in the 1200 and 1300 blocks of East Washington Avenue. There is a bridge crane, rows of work s...
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Gisholt Foundry

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Description: View of two workers pouring molten metal on the floor of the Gisholt plant. There are two massive chain hoists, suspended from a bridge crane, that are hol...
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Construction of Gisholt Building

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Description: View of construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant, facing East Washington Avenue. Two workers, one obscured by a beam, are unl...
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Construction of Gisholt Building

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Description: View of workers and supervisors during construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant. The floor is covered in plastic. The renovat...
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Mendota League Baseball Champions

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Description: Team group portrait of winners for the Mendota League baseball tournament, taken in a Gisholt office that has framed images of lathes hanging on the wall b...
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Worker at Airplane Assembly Plant

Date: 01 24 1930
Description: View towards a factory man working at a plant that assembled Comet engines for aircraft. The man is standing at a desk fitted with instruments in a narrow ...
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Workers at Airplane Assembly Plant

Date: 01 24 1930
Description: View of two factory men at work desks at a plant that assembled Comet aircraft engines. They are sitting on wooden stools between Korn scales in a narrow b...
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Factory of Comet Aircraft Engines

Date: 11 07 1929
Description: Interior view of a factory floor. Machinery by Whitcomb Manufacturing Company is in the right foreground, and a Comet 7-cylinder aircraft engine is in the ...
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Comet Engine Cutaway View with Female Model

Date: 02 13 1930
Description: 3-D cutaway view of the mechanical substructure and configuration of a Comet aircraft engine showcased with a female model. The engine is partially encased...
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Gisholt Turret Lathes in Peerless Auto Motor Car Company

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Description: View of a battery of turret lathes in the "Gisholt Department" in a factory of the Peerless Auto Motor Car Company taken while machinery is in operation. T...
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Workers in the Gisholt Department at the Buick Company Plant #1

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Description: Factory workers standing with their arms crossed on the plant floor in the Gisholt Department of the Buick Company Plant #1 alongside lathes, and machined ...
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Railroad Yard at Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: View of a loading platform by the railroad track at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East Mifflin...
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Stutz Motor Car Co. Crankshaft Production on Gisholt Machinery

Date: 06 09 1926
Description: A worker is overseeing the production of crankshafts on Gisholt machinery at a plant for the Stutz Motor Car company. The Gisholt company logo is on the se...
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Machinists Using Gisholt Turret Lathes

Date: 09 24 1923
Description: Several machinists (some blurred by motion) are standing at work stations producing component parts on Gisholt lathes. This factory is one of countless com...

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