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| Date: | 10 30 1935 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Madison Cafeteria, 215 W. Washington Avenue. There are seven servers behind the counter, and two customers are sitting at tables. |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Men in the Repairs Department Sales Room at the McCormick Works factory. |
| Date: | 07 03 1896 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of waiters and customers in the Schlitz Palm Garden. The idea of the garden was borrowed from Germany where beer gardens were common. It open... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of shop floor of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger 20-ton type "N" dial controlled cab-operated traveling crane. The crane is in machine sho... |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | A Pawling & Harnischfeger 50-ton type "AN" bridge crane with a 10-ton type "A" trolley with standard a block at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair in either t... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, laden with lumber, with operator repositioning load as the hoist leaves the lumber shed... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger 2-ton monorail hoist in the William Wharton Jr. & Co. rail storage house. There's a man in the cab and the text on the cab reads "P... |
| Date: | 05 24 1937 |
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| Description: | A man stands beside a truck in the new truck department on the third floor of International Harvester's Manhattan branch. Additional trucks are parked in t... |
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| Description: | Carson Gulley, the well-known University of Wisconsin-Madison chef, serving a catered meal at the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed First Unitarian Society Meeti... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers are loading a wooden crate marked "McCormick Folding Daisy Reaper" using a pulley system in the docks of the McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Multiple International Metro truck bodies lined up along an assembly line at the factory of the Metropolitan Body Company, an International Harvester subsi... |
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| Description: | Two men on a scaffold inside the Werner Opera House. Advertisements for local merchants are on the stage curtain, and there is an upright piano in the fore... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A factory worker stacks wrapped and tied bundles of twine into a large pile in the Twine Mill at Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind the ma... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two sales women of the F.W. Woolworth Co. standing at a counter, while five men, from Julius J. Wergin Co. painters and decorators, are st... |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | View of the Julius J. Wergin Company's decorating crew painting the ceiling while standing on scaffolding high above the New Opera House floor. Paint cans,... |
| Date: | 03 26 1958 |
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| Description: | Remodeling is underway for the new Hawthorne Branch Library at 2041 Atwood Avenue. This library location replaced the Williamson Street branch library and ... |
| Date: | 02 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Men are working in a repair shop. There are large windows along the back wall in the background, and the ceiling is exposed. A block and tackle is hanging ... |
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| Description: | Interior, elevated view of McCormick's Gymnasium. Sports equipment is set up on the floor, and a punching bag is attached to the brick wall near a set of d... |
| Date: | 06 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Man oiling overhead gears in manufacturing area of plant. A sign hanging from the ceiling reads: "Fire Escape" and us also written in two other languages. |
| Date: | 01 11 1921 |
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| Description: | Construction sequence of Disk Harrows, with attachments and seeders. The two men are standing and wearing work clothes over their shirts and ties. Both men... |
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