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Horse-drawn Disc Harrow

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Description: Horse-drawn harrow on display by the railroad yard platform at the first machine works plant of Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East ...
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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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21" Gisholt Standard Turret Lathe

Date: 02 03 1916
Description: Hand-operated Gisholt saddle lathe with 3 1/2 " spindle bore. The dimensions of these 21" lathes was 10'3" long and 3'3" wide, bearing the approximate net ...
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Gisholt Automatic Turret Lathe

Date: 12 28 1920
Description: This automatic turret lathe, photographed inside the factory shop in front of a sweep, was manufactured in 20" and 30" sizes. Produced by 1920, promotional...
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Gisholt Automatic Saddle Lathe

Date: 09 03 1927
Description: Automatic saddle lathe in the factory shop. Promotional material for the Gisholt Machine Company states that "for duplication of machined castings and forg...
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Gisholt Sales Force

Date: 12 1906
Description: The caption on the back of this photograph reads: "Eight of the Sales force of the Gisholt Machine Company. (Refused!)" It was made by "J.H.N." A line of e...
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Carl and Hobart Johnson

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Description: Carl A. Johnson (left) and his younger brother, Hobart (right), as young men working at Gisholt Machine Company “after they boxed the first foreign shipmen...
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Gisholt Machine Company Railroad Yard

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Description: View across railroad tracks towards the loading dock at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400 block of East Mif...

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