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Fairmount Tiger loader

Date: 03 17 1969
Description: Engineering photograph of a Fairmount Tiger Cub 1500 loader with hydrostatic drive. The machine was manufactured by the Northwestern Motor Company of Eau C...
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First Gillette Company Tire

Date: 1917
Description: Interior shot of a group of men, women and boys at the Gillette Tire Company. The Gillette Safety Tire Company was founded in Eau Claire in 1916 and the cr...
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Coffin House (?) Parlor

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Description: Interior view of a parlor. A chandelier is hanging from the ceiling, and multiple photographs and portraits are displayed on the walls. There is a piano al...
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Parlor-room Piano at the Coffin Residence

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Description: View of the piano in the parlor, with two potted plants on the floor, a chair, and a nightstand. Three framed pictures are hanging on the wall, and a statu...
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Eau Claire County Court House Desk

Date: 1930
Description: The desk in the courtroom, made at the Marston Planing Mill in Eau Claire about 1873-4.
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Eau Claire County Court House Staircase

Date: 1930
Description: Walnut staircase inside the Eau Claire County Court House.
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Eau Claire Public Library

Date: 1896
Description: Bookshelves and desks within the Eau Claire Public Library Reading Room.
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Eau Claire Public Library

Date: 1896
Description: Interior view of the Eau Claire Public Library. Tables and bookshelves in the public library reading room.
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Shipping Tractor Tires

Date: 09 21 1945
Description: Two workers at the United Rubber Company plant at Eau Claire, Alfred Stokes and Eugene Stafford, loading large farm tires onto a railroad car for shipment.
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Woman Rubber Worker

Date: 01 12 1949
Description: Isabel Olson, an employee of the United Rubber Company in Eau Claire, examining fabric for a pocket in a heavy service tire. Although most women who joine...
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Alice in Dairyland

Date: 1962
Description: Alice in Dairyland, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, greeting admiring members of the public at the junior livestock exposition in Eau Claire. The Alice in Dairyland com...
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Alice and the Winner

Date: 1962
Description: Alice in Dairyland 1962, Sylvia Lee Kafkas, posing with a young winner and his entry at the regional Junior Livestock Exposition in Eau Claire.
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Congressional Candidate Connor Hansen

Date: 04 27 1948
Description: Waist-up portrait of Connor Hansen, a former Eau Claire County district attorney, who is now seeking to be a candidate for the Republican nomination for th...
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Eau Claire Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Eau Claire Public Library. Reverse of the photograph reads: "Carnegie bldg, 1904, Cost $40,000, Patton + Miller, Chicago, arch." In th...
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Eau Claire Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Eau Claire Public Library. There are tables with lamps, chairs, bookshelves, and a chandelier. Through a doorway is another room with ...
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Eau Claire Public Library

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Description: Interior view of the Eau Claire Public Library. Photograph is a long view through several rooms. The reverse of the photograph reads, "From children's room...
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Tire Molds

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Description: Interior view of a Uniroyal factory showing tire molds alongside a conveyor belt.
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Men at Uniroyal Factory

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Description: Elevated view of men working with long strips of rubber and fabric while making tires.
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Stacks of Tires at Uniroyal Factory

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Description: Elevated view of stacks of tires siting in the Uniroyal factory. Men work at machinery building tires.
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Building Tires

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Description: Workroom in the Uniroyal factory where men and women are building tires.

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