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| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Assembly line of the American Motors Company, formerly Nash Motors, in Kenosha. |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Parking lot at the General Motors plant. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Rubber workers making tires at the Ajax Rubber Company plant in Racine. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Isabel Olson, an employee of the United Rubber Company in Eau Claire, examining fabric for a pocket in a heavy service tire. Although most women who joine... |
| Date: | 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Reliance Motor Truck Company in Appleton, in which the absence of assembly line construction is notable. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Exterior of the factory for the Oshkosh Truck Company. |
| Date: | 04 29 1989 |
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| Description: | One of a group of photographs taken to document the appearance of the Chrysler Company plant in Kenosha in 1989. The factory, which was then the oldest au... |
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| Description: | Shops under construction for the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and Omaha railroad lines. Men are working with a horse-drawn wagon in the right foreground... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Prairie du Chien Woolen Mill Company, established in 1890 by George Fairfield. |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street towards the Dousman Office building, later used as a pearl button factory. A large group of people are sitting and standing at ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Women workers at a Wisconsin canning factory inspecting corn as it passes by them on conveyor belts. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Two women workers at a Wisconsin pea cannery enjoy a light moment, as the shelled peas they are inspecting pass by on a conveyor belt. Both women are weari... |
| Date: | 09 1959 |
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| Description: | Striking members of United Packinghouse Workers Local 167 on strike outside the Swift & Co. plant in St. Paul. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Hubert H. Humphrey speaking to factory workers through a megaphone from the back of a convertible. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Fox River Bridge. The building in the foreground has a sign that reads: "Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Freight Station." Caption rea... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View across intersection toward the Diamond Match Company. Caption reads: "Diamond Match Co., Oshkosh, Wis. |
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