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International Truck Testing at Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: International semi trucks mounting a long hill at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by Internat...
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Aerial Photo of Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International Harvester through the 1970's ...
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International Harvester Earthmover at Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: International Harvester 27-75 earthmover being demonstrated in front of a grandstand at International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, t...
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Aerial View of Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1954
Description: Aerial view of the Phoenix Proving Ground during the 1954 Industrial Power Roundup, a large event promoting International Harvester's construction equipmen...
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Aerial View of Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1966
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International Harvester through the 1970's ...
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Phoenix Proving Ground

Date: 1953
Description: Bird's-eye view of International Harvester's Phoenix Proving Ground. Opened in 1947, the proving ground was used by International Harvester through the 197...
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GM Assembly Line

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Description: Assembly line workers at the General Motors plant.
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General Motors Employees

Date: 1987
Description: Employees of the General Motors plant in head to work.
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GM Automobile Frame in Factory

Date: 1987
Description: An automobile frame on the assembly line at the General Motors plant.
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Kissel War Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Workers leaving the Kissell Motor Car Company have their identification badges checked. The Hartford company was then building trucks of the Four Wheel Dr...
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World War I Trucks

Date: 1918
Description: Trucks of the Four Wheel Drive Company of Clintonville manufactured at the Kissel Motor Car Company plant in Hartford during World War I, thus uniting in o...
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American Motors Assembly Line

Date: 1965
Description: Assembly line of the American Motors Company, formerly Nash Motors, in Kenosha.
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General Motors Parking Lot

Date: 1960
Description: Parking lot at the General Motors plant.
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Highway Trailer Factory

Date: 1917
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...
Print

Kissel Ad

Date: 1928
Description: Advertisement from "Motor Age" magazine for the new White Eagle Speedster manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. With 115 ho...
Book or Pamphlet

Oshkosh Motor Trucks

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of the Oshkosh 4-Wheel Drive Motor Truck catalog. Oshkosh Truck Corporation was founded in Oshkosh in 1917. Still headquartered in Oshkosh, t...
Book or Pamphlet

Nash Six Sport Model

Date: 1923
Description: A page from a Nash Motors Company catalog, showing a six-cylinder, four-passenger sport sedan which was available in deep maroon with a khaki-color mohair ...
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Thomas B. Jeffery

Date: 1897
Description: Thomas B. Jeffery, founder of the Thomas B. Jeffery Company of Kenosha in 1902. Before that Jeffery produced several experimental automobiles, including th...
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Charles W. Nash

Date: 1937
Description: Charles W. Nash, president of Buick, (1910-1912), head of General Motors (1912-1916) and founder of Nash Motors of Kenosha, Wisconsin, (1916-1936), a man s...
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Highway Trailer

Date: 1948
Description: Twin refrigerated trailers, "coldmobiles," manufactured by the Highway Trailer Co. of Edgerton.

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