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Interior of Battery Factory

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Description: French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant.
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Production Line Worker

Date: 1935
Description: A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs.
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Ray-O-Vac Building

Date: 11 30 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street.
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Ray-O-Vac Building

Date: 11 30 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ...
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Ray-O-Vac Buildings

Date: 11 28 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac buildings on 2300 block of Winnebago Street. An office building, production plant, water tower, and two houses at 2327 & 2331 Winnebago Street ca...
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Ray-O-Vac Buildings

Date: 11 28 1945
Description: Ray-O-Vac buildings on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building, production plant, two houses: 2327 and 2331 Winnebago Street, and several cars....
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Aerial View of Ray-O-Vac Buildings

Date: 10 18 1945
Description: Madison Ray-O-Vac plant, 2313-25 Winnebago Street.
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Ray-O-Vac Fourth Floor Office

Date: 10 31 1946
Description: Interior view of Ray-O-Vac's large, open fourth floor office with desks and chairs. Behind the desk in the foreground is a large Rolodex in a box on wheels...
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Ray-O-Vac Fourth Floor Lounge

Date: 10 31 1946
Description: Fourth Floor lounge at Ray-O-Vac, 212 East Washington Avenue.
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French Battery Company Facility, Aerial View

Date: 1935
Description: Aerial view of the French Battery Company facility, East Washington Avenue, and Winnebago Street at the Union Corners intersection.
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Ray-O-Vac Workers

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Three service wives working at Ray-O-Vac. Left to right: Mrs. Emma Perry, Mrs. Frances Sturdy, and Mrs. Amanda Signer.
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Maj. General Harry C. Ingles Inspecting Battery Production

Date: 01 17 1945
Description: Maj. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, watching two women make batteries at Ray-O-Vac, or RMR (Ruben Mallory Ray-O-Vac).
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Major Gen. Harry C. Ingles Inspecting Batteries

Date: 01 17 1945
Description: Maj. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, inspecting batteries at Ray-O-Vac, or RMR (Ruben Mallory Ray-O-Vac).
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Lorraine Gray and Mrs. R.W. Halvorsen

Date: 01 11 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray being interviewed by Mrs. R.W. Halvorsen at the RMR plant. The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac was located in th...
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Plant Workers

Date: 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray and Mrs. Mildred Lewis on the production line at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 block o...
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Workers Inspecting Batteries

Date: 01 10 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray in the storage room inspecting some of the more than 300,000 batteries made in one day at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division...
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Employee Receiving Paycheck

Date: 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ...
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Factory Floor

Date: 04 05 1945
Description: RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) factory floor showing workers making batteries.
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Personnel

Date: 04 04 1945
Description: People signing up to work at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), a battery manufacturer.
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Robert M. Carnes and Jack Young

Date: 05 02 1945
Description: Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young.

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