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| Description: | Unloading barrels of goods from the "Ogdensburg" in the Milwaukee harbor. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Three employees working at the Hess Cooperage sawmill, quarter sawing oak logs to make staves and heads for barrels. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess, Eddie Hess, and Foots Hess (l to r) of the Hess Cooperage pose with a large oak log which will be cut into staves and heads for barrels. Houses ... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Two employees of the Hess Cooperage, working at machines that are milling oak lumber into staves for barrels. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. using a draw knife to shape an oak barrel stave at the Hess Cooperage. Also known as "schnitzeling on the schnitzelbank". |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess finishing barrel heads at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank Hess Sr., owner of Hess Cooperage, trimming cattails, used to cauk oak barrels. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. and Tony Hess using a truss hoop driver to install hoops around a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. Also known as "trussing". |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using a crozing machine to shape an oak barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank Hess Sr., owner of Hess Cooperage, finishing the exterior of a barrel on a cooper's lathe. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Frank "Foots" Hess Jr. watching a machine set hoops on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using a circling machine to create a barrel head at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Workman at Hess Cooperage setting rivets in a barrel hoop. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess installing finishing hoops on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 06 1949 |
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| Description: | Joe Hess using spokeshave on a barrel at the Hess Cooperage. |
| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Drawing of a girl sitting on a barrel as a man dumps apples into a press to make cider. Two men manually operate the press at the left. |
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| Description: | A man is on a walkway on top of a mechanical conveyor belt machine that is loading sand and gravel into the bed of a truck. A steam shovel is visible in th... |
| Date: | 06 02 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of men loading the bed of an International Model C-35 truck parked behind a railroad car. The men are standing on a platform at the ... |
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| Description: | Men posed standing at the construction site. They are probably laying the foundation of a building. A small wooden building in the background has a poster ... |
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| Description: | View of men in the Kleinpel lumberyard posing in the midst of work. There are about two dozen men standing on wagons, inside buildings, and on a large stac... |
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