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Interior of Battery Factory

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Description: French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant.
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Machinery Side of Rushour Co., Inc. Plant

Date: 10 05 1936
Description: Interior view of men working inside Rushour Manufacturing Company at 2070 Helena Street.
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Red Dot Potato Chip Plant

Date: 1939
Description: Man working with machinery at the Red Dot Potato Chip plant.
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Madison Gas & Electric Co. Interior

Date: 02 22 1946
Description: Madison Gas & Electric Company plant, showing stairway, ceiling beams and machinery, at 115 South Blount Street.
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Man Standing on Ladder

Date: 11 04 1943
Description: Man standing on folding ladder in Madison-Kipp Corp., with scene of factory floor in the background.
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Three Delta Company Drill Presses

Date: 07 11 1941
Description: Three Delta Company drill presses on display at the Scanlan Morris Company, 1902-1948 East Johnson Street.
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Oil Valves

Date: 10 09 1939
Description: Group of oil valves in the basement of the Oscar Mayer & Company, 910 Mayer Avenue.
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Oscar Mayer Casing Workers

Date: 10 17 1939
Description: Group portrait of female workers in the casing department of Oscar Mayer & Company, located at 910 Mayer Avenue.
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Air Collection Machinery

Date: 01 11 1937
Description: Air filtration machinery and piping at the Gisholt Plant located in the 1200 — 1300 blocks of East Washington Avenue.
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Air Collection Machinery

Date: 01 11 1937
Description: Air filtration machinery and piping at the Gisholt Plant, located in the 1200 - 1300 blocks East Washington Avenue.
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Rushour Manufacturing Company Inc., Assembly Line

Date: 10 05 1936
Description: Interior of the Rushour Manufacturing Company Inc., 2070 Helena Street. Men are working on the vending machine assembly line.
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Feldman Paper Box Company

Date: 04 22 1931
Description: Interior Feldman Paper Box Company, 21-33 North Charter Street, with women at the machines.
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Feldman Paper Box Printing Department

Date: 04 22 1931
Description: Interior of Feldman Paper Box Company printing department, 21-33 N. Charter Street, with three men at the machines.
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Concrete Block Machine

Date: 03 12 1929
Description: View of a machine that makes concrete blocks at Madison Silo Company.
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Woman Working at Gisholt Plant

Date: 1944
Description: A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue.
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Men Processing Hemp Fibers

Date: 10 06 1944
Description: Two men processing hemp in a DeForest plant for use as cord and rope during World War II. The men are feeding hemp into a rolling machine which crushes the...
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Sausage Making

Date: 1944
Description: Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
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Robert M. Carnes and Jack Young

Date: 05 02 1945
Description: Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young.
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Automobile Crankshaft Machine at Gisholt Machine Company

Date: 08 20 1947
Description: Display of a 50-ton machine, developed by the Gisholt Machine Company, that will help speed up production of automobile crankshafts. W.A. Smlja, on the lef...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Stanley Prideaux, worker at the Gisholt Machine Company, who is representing the CIO Dane County Industrial Union council on the 1949 Madison C...

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