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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Curving stairway to the entrance of the courthouse. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | View from street towards the Senior High School. Caption reads: "Senior High School, Eau Claire, Wis." |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Victor Marten, a worker at the Gillette factory owned by the United States Rubber Company, feeding rubber into a Banbury mixer. During World War II the go... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Employee of the United States Rubber Company at Eau Claire removing a tire from the curing mold. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Employees at the United Rubber Company plant in Eau Claire load wrapped tires onto a truck for shipment. |
| Date: | 09 21 1945 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 27 1948 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Three men stand near ventilation fans for cementing machines on the roof of Building #3. |
| Date: | 08 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Men working in the tool room, located in the northeast corner of Building #15. |
| Date: | 03 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Men working in the passenger curing unit "V" on the first floor of Building #8. |
| Date: | 06 05 1947 |
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| Description: | A view of the duct work in the passenger tire press room on the third floor of Building 7. |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Theresa Meyer and Alice Lee cutting and splicing stock in the bead department. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Veteran tire builder Bill McNair works on a pocket while constructing a heavy service truck tire. Two men wearing suits and hats stand in the left backgrou... |
| 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. |
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