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| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Workers manufacturing wooden wagon components inside International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. One worker is drilling holes in wooden pieces. The factor... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original factory of the Highway Trailers Company in Edgerton. Beginning in 1909 the factory was the site of a wagon works, but in 1917 it made a rather ty... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Men line up outside on the sidewalk in front of the International Harvester's Weber Works building. The factory produced wagons. Two men are looking down f... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | The office staff of International Harvester's Weber Works are posing beneath an American flag in front of the exterior office door. Weber Works produced wa... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | International Harvester branch house. A bystander watches a man work on one of the railroad tracks outside the building. An man in a automobile is driving ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of International Harvester branch house. Signs on the building advertise farm machines, oil tractors, engines, wagons and motor trucks. A lon... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Original caption reads: "Model G, two-ton capacity, owned and operated by the International Harvester Corporation, Milwaukee, Wis, for cartage purposes, an... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man in an International model "G" truck with wooden boxes in the bed is parked outside of a vine-covered building. The building is most likely Internatio... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of a woman tying a scarf around her head and knotting it under her chin. The photograph is one of a series demonstrating how to use... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two views of a man using the Elgin tractor. The image at left shows the farmer using the machine in a field; the image at right depicts the man using the t... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Several men are working on different parts of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2), including the interior structure of the plane, the engine, and the exterio... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Fourth page of a four-page pamphlet advertising the Lawson Aircraft Corporation. Includes photographs of the interiors and exteriors of the corporation's f... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A fully assembled Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) parked indoors at the Lawson plant. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2) fuselage in the Lawson plant. The airplane is almost fully assembled, except for the wings, which are not yet attached. T... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View across railroad tracks towards the Hillsboro Condensed Milk Company factory, established 1914. Manufacturer of sterilized evaporated milk. The brick s... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | View across road towards a building that may be housing for employees. A large brick building is in the background. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Text on front reads: "Spellman Granite Works, Sauk City, Wisconsin" and "Manufacturing Plant." Two images, one above the other, an exterior and interior vi... |
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