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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An factory worker at McCormick Works uses an automatic filling and labeling machine. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men determine the distillation range of paint thinner in the Paint Department of McCormick Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the Paint Department of McCormick Works charge vehicles and pigment into large ball units. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory worker in the McCormick Works Paint Department tests the spraying qualities of automotive enamels. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers take samples from the 8-ton Brackelsberg Furnace at McCormick Works. The original caption reads: "Furnace has three tap spouts. Large insul... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at McCormick Works tap an 8-top Brackelsberg furnace. The original caption reads: "Control mechanism for rotating and tilting furnace, also... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at McCormick Works charge an 8-ton Brackelsberg Furnace. The original caption reads: "10 charging buckets holding 1,600 lbs. each are moved... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A factory worker stands next to the battery of roller bearing tumble mills at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View across street towards the Waters Motor Company Used Car Sales Lot, located at 746 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Several men pass through the locks at the Lake Mendota entrance to the Yahara River. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Wells Street Bridge occupies the bottom center of the image, with City Hall in the center background. Three men are walking on the bridge. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view of the water purification plant. A group of men are working on the front lawn of the plant. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Lincoln Borgrud, in his work clothes, standing at the pumps at Droster's Grocery and Filling Station, 1438 Sherman Avenue. A child stands near a car beneat... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a bearded man sitting on a rock. The tops of the heads of three people are visible in the lower foreground. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for International model D-50, DR-50, and DS-50 trucks. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for the McCormick-Deering WD-40, "America's First Diesel-powered Wheel Tractor." |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin freshman boxing team dressed in boxing uniforms and gloves standing behind stacked cans of sauerkraut with a sign that reads "Pep U... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men, a young boy, and two women relax by a tree near a stream. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Men grade a new road surface with an International TD-14 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and Adams Power Grader. There is a house in the background and peopl... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two men working with an International T-14 crawler tractor (TracTracTor) and an Adams grader to level a new road. |
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