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| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Consolidated Paper executive Jim Plzak (in the suit), watches as workers pull laminate from the Number #1 press at the Consolidated Paper Company. The lam... |
| Date: | 1967 |
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| Description: | Technicians are working in a clean-room in the Solar Division of International Harvester. Original caption reads: "Much of the precise beryllium machining ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from field across pond towards Alfred Lawson's aircraft plant, with buildings and smokestacks. Men are working with a pile of lumber on the l... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of drafting tables for aircraft design, presumably inside the Lawson plant. There are several stools, desks and tables set up in the corner o... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the machine shop at the Lawson plant. There are drill presses and a belt-driven machinery system attached to the open rafters of the ceiling. S... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Lawson plant. At least 18 people are working in the large, open room. Belt-driven machinery is attached to the rafters of the open cei... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the interior of the Lawson plant, a large open room with exposed ceiling and windows lining both walls. Part of the fuselage for a Lawson ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Lawson machine shop, with two Lawson engines, one housed in part of a fuselage, the other set on a wooden support. A long wooden frame is i... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior view from field of a long brick Lawson plant building with a smokestack. Several automobiles are parked near the plant on the left, and on the rig... |
| 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: | Close-up view of the pilot's seat at the front of a Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2). The plane's structure is intact but exterior plates have not yet been ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the empennage (tail assembly) of the Lawson Military Tractor 2 (MT2). Exterior plates have not yet been attached. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of two sets of wheels for the Lawson Air Liner. They are arranged in front of a cloth. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Exterior plates being attached to a Lawson Air Liner. Two men are crouching underneath the cockpit. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | A Lawson Air Liner under construction at the Milwaukee plant. The cockpit and cabin have been enclosed with exterior plates, and the tail structure is visi... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Close-up view of the tail assembly (empennage) of a Lawson Air Liner, with the fins and tail skid attached. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the interior structure of a Lawson Air Liner tail assembly. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | The interior structure of a Lawson Air Liner sitting in a plant, probably in Milwaukee. The tail assembly (empennage) and cabin have been attached, and the... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Close-up of the cockpit structure for a Lawson Air Liner, including the steering wheels and a chair set on boxes. The overall quality of the cockpit sugges... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Three-quarter view from right rear of a Lawson Air Liner, which is parked outdoors near an airplane hangar. Several people are behind the airplane. |
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