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| Description: | Elevated view of two Gisholt workers operating machinery on the factory floor. They are wearing t-shirts and jeans or khaki work pants; both men have rags ... |
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| Description: | A male employee standing at a machine. The caption along the left reads: "No. 9274A/Balancing a crankshaft in a Dynetric 3U Balancer." Gisholt Machine Comp... |
| Date: | 12 2013 |
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| Description: | A cherry-picker is lifting a line worker holding a STIHL chainsaw and wearing a helmet high in the air next to a Siberian elm that is in the process of bei... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of about 29 employees manufacturing sausages at the Oscar Mayer & Co. plant. Caption reads: "This view of the sparkling Sausage Kitchen at Os... |
| Date: | 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Women preparing sliced bacon at the Oscar Mayer & Co. plant in Madison. At least fifteen women are working, most most of them wearing headscarves. Caption ... |
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| Description: | Three men are looking on, one running the movie camera, as a Gisholt worker is filmed working at a machine. The three men behind the camera are wearing sui... |
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| Description: | Color illustration art of an overhead view of a man operating a Number 5 Ram Turret machine with a control panel. Metal shavings are scattered on the machi... |
| Date: | 06 17 1953 |
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| Description: | Man standing in the interior of the Sinaiko Brothers Filling Station, 760 Regent Street. Good view of a service station restroom in the background with the... |
| Date: | 11 1936 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a long leather apron, cap and gloves is operating a machine that secures lids to cans. Written on the reverse of the print is the description... |
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| Description: | Straight-on standing portrait of a Gisholt laborer in work apron, suspenders, boots and brimmed hat. Taken outdoors before a white sweep, he is standing wi... |
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| Description: | Portrait oftwo Gisholt laborers. One man is in profile and the other is facing front. They are wearing work aprons, suspenders, boots and brimmed hats. Tak... |
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| Description: | Portrait of two Gisholt laborers. One man is in profile and the other is facing front. They are wearing work aprons, suspenders, boots and brimmed hats. Ta... |
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| Description: | Portrait of two Gisholt laborers. One man is in profile and the other is in semi-profile. They are wearing work aprons, suspenders, boots and brimmed hats.... |
| Date: | 12 01 1944 |
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| Description: | Women cross soldering on a radio line at Ray-O-Vac Corporation. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory floor at the Gisholt plant, located in the 1200 and 1300 blocks of East Washington Avenue. There is a bridge crane, rows of work s... |
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| Description: | View of two workers pouring molten metal on the floor of the Gisholt plant. There are two massive chain hoists, suspended from a bridge crane, that are hol... |
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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... |
| Date: | 12 14 1953 |
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| Description: | A chef working in a large kitchen. He is wearing a white chef's coat, tall hat and crisply pressed apron, and is standing next to an industrial-sized stove... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal employee, Harry Bunbury, receiving bundles of Christmas cards from inside the letter window at the United States Post Office on Monona Avenue. Bundl... |
| Date: | 12 16 1953 |
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| Description: | Postal worker, Del Winters, working at a pouch rack, where mail is sorted prior to going out of the city. He is in the back of the United States Post Offic... |
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