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| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | A flipper is applied to a bead by Lloyd Barnes. |
| Date: | 10 21 1944 |
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| Description: | The first tire to be cured in the Gillette Tire Plant is removed from the mold. From left to right are F.B. Davis Jr. (Chairman of the United States Rubber... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | The first raw tire is placed in a mold at Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are R.L. Chatterson, Julius Berkley, A.B. Smith, M.O. Wick, J.W. Harry Ku... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Bagging the first tire made in the Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are H.A. Berg, C.E. Stare, F.A. Cobb, F.J. Amundson, R.L. Chatterson, R.J. Hanse... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Bill Mcnair rolls the tread onto a tire as two other men look on at the Rubber Company's Gillette Tire Plant. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Seven men pose together as the first raw tire at the Gillette Tire Plant is put into a vacuum expander. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Severin Gullickson applies a circumferential wrap to a wire bead while building a tire at Gillette Tire Plant. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Tom Ellington cutting rubber from a roll to make a tire at the Gillette Tire Plant. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Tire builder William (Bill) McNair puts a pocket on the first tire built at the Gillette Tire Plant. Civic representatives and employees of construction fi... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Tire builder Bill McNair stitches the side walls of a heavy service truck tire at the Gillette Tire Plant as men in suits watch. |
| Date: | 01 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Tire builder Arnold Brandt rolls the tread onto a heavy service truck tire. |
| Date: | 01 06 1947 |
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| Description: | Rode LeDue builds an 8.25/20 pocket for use in a heavy service tire. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the U.S. Rubber Company plant and surrounding environment. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the U.S. Rubber Company plant and surrounding environment. |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of the U.S. Rubber Company plant and surrounding environment. |
| Date: | 04 20 1954 |
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| Description: | Women work in a row on machinery building tires. |
| Date: | 08 18 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a long row of heavy service tire building machines waiting to be installed in the Gillette Tire Plant. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of International Harvester's Eau Claire branch house. Another building is in the background. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the state of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Viking brand, Malt Syrup, distributed by E-C products Co." A large viking ship is pr... |
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