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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Frank J. Hess and Sons barrel-making factory, 1952 Atwood Avenue at Schenck's Corners. Pictured l to r: Frank Jr., Edward, Joseph, Tony, a... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A worker cuts curd to make Swiss cheese at the Jorden Cheese factory. |
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| Description: | Wisconsin Land & Lumber Company Camp 15. Lumberjacks posed atop a sled load of logs, scaled at 13,562 board feet of lumber. |
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| Description: | French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I. |
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| Description: | Plate Steel Spiral Casing for 70,000 horse-power Niagara Falls hydraulic turbine unit at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company erecting shop. The castin... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down the canal, with buildings along the shoreline, and a boat coming down the canal. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two men pose at the Barron Coop Creamery next to the churns full of butter, which is ready to be packed into the small barrels nearby. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
| Date: | 1954 |
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| Description: | Workers at the A.O. Smith Corporation in Milwaukee assembling frames for Cadillac automobiles. In 1902 Arthur O. Smith, son of the company's founder, produ... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Buckhorn Cheese Company plant. A sign painted on the exterior of the building reads: "Take One Home." |
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| Description: | Men and women packing poultry at the Home Packing Company. |
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| Description: | Men working on the automobile assembly line in the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Company. |
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| Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
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| Description: | General Motors chassis assembly. Men are working among the machinery. |
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| Description: | A Carrie-Craft catamaran houseboat on lift at the Carrie-Craft factory. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Workers in the General Assembly Department of the Wright Brothers' airplane factory. |
| Date: | 07 1917 |
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| Description: | A factory worker painting the United States insignia on a bi-plane wing. |
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| Description: | Workers in Carl Bates' airplane factory in Chicago. The history of Bates' various aviation enterprises is sketchy, but it is known that he built airplanes ... |
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