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Hobart Manufacturing Co. Store

Date: 02 28 1928
Description: Hobart Manufacturing Co. Store, showing Toledo Scales, at 407 State Street.
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Gisholt employee Union dinner. Sitting at the table are (left to right): Charles Poole, former local union president; James Greene, local union community s...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Sitting at a table and laughing are Gisholt Union members Lloyd Bosben (right), a steward for Local 1404, and Carl Oldenburg, a former member of the grieva...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Stan Prideaux (right), president of Gisholt's Machinist Local Union 1404, is chatting with John Werner (from Milwaukee), State CIO Community Service direct...
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Gisholt Union Dinner

Date: 11 30 1954
Description: Shown at the banquet table are two past presidents of Gisholt's local union: Charles Diehl and Harold Wegmiller. This was the first time since 1937 that al...
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Gisholt Brochure Dummy — Pages 36 and 37

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Description: Layout of pages 36 and 37 for a Gisholt Machine Company promotional brochure. The drawing is rendered on tissue paper in graphite and yellow and black past...
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Gisholt Brochure Dummy — Pages 34 and 35

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Description: Layout of pages 34 and 35 for a Gisholt Machine Company promotional brochure. The drawing is rendered on tissue paper in graphite and yellow and black past...
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Gisholt Brochure Dummy — Pages 28 and 29

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Description: Layout of pages 28 and 29 for a Gisholt Machine Company promotional brochure. The drawing is rendered on tissue paper in graphite and yellow and black past...
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Gisholt Brochure Dummy — Pages 14 and 15

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Description: Layout of pages 14 and 15 for a Gisholt Machine Company promotional brochure. The drawing is rendered on tissue paper in graphite and yellow and black past...
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Gisholt Brochure Dummy — Pages 6 and 7

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Description: Layout of pages 6 and 7 for a Gisholt Machine Company promotional brochure. The abstract drawing is rendered on tissue paper in graphite, yellow and black ...
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Gisholt Brochure Dummy — Cover

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Description: Cover layout for a Gisholt Machine Company promotional brochure. The drawing is rendered on tissue paper in graphite, yellow and black pastel, and white pa...
Photograph

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 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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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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Railroad Yard at Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: View of a loading platform by the railroad track at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East Mifflin...
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Back View of Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: View of the back side of the Madison plant from across a dirt road, which is lined with a plank sidewalk and telephone poles, towards several plant buildin...
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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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Air-Lec Automatic Sliding Door Opener

Date: 1922
Description: Air-Lec pneumatic automatic door opener set up on a table on a roof. Probably the roof of Schoelkopf's manufacturing plant at 320 N. Third Street.
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Air-Lec Automatic Swing Door Opener

Date: 1922
Description: Outdoor view of an Air-Lec automatic door opener for swinging doors set up on a wood plank on a rooftop. Probably the top of Schoelkopf's manufacturing pla...
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Air-Lec Automatic Door Opener

Date: 1922
Description: Air-Lec pneumatic automatic door opener with button and wire set up on a board. The manufacturing plant on N. Third Street began operation in 1922.

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