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Research Products Display Window

Date: 09 17 1952
Description: Research Products Company display window at Wolff-Kubly & Hirsig Hardware Store, featuring Filter-Fry frying pan cover and E Z Kleen air filters. 17 South ...
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Bay View Rolling Mill

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Description: Exterior of the Bay View Rolling Mill, Puddling Department, with workers posing outside the building. The men are standing near railroad tracks, and a few ...
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Workers Pouring Molten Metal at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1914
Description: Three workers pouring molten metal into small containers at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com...
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Metal Spice Containers

Date: 10 16 1946
Description: Display of four metal spice containers manufactured by Paul Krueger & Company, 106 North Frances Street.
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Men at Forge at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men working with hot metal in what appears to be a forge at the McCormick Reaper Works factory.
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Three Falk Employees

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Description: Three male employees appear to be preparing for a casting in sand. One man holds a hose in his hand while another has a shovel and the other a long metal p...
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Man Shovelling Metal into West Pullman Works Furnace

Date: 1944
Description: A man wearing protective gloves is shoveling metal pieces into a radiant tube clean hardening furnace at West Pullman Works.
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MEC&MC Transfer Bridge with Magnetic Hoist

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Description: Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company transfer bridge with a magnetic hoist at the Enterprise Foundry Company. There's a sign on the cab that re...
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Moulding Machine

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Description: A worker operates a moulding [sic] machine. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 2 One of the types of moulding machines in monarch foundries where machine m...
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Moulders Filling their Ladles

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Description: Four workers gather around the malleable iron furnace and fill their ladles. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 5 Moulders filling their ladles at the mall...
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Men Working at Furnace

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Description: View of the furnace at Malleable Iron Range Company. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 4 One side of the Malleable Iron furnace. Note the provision for sk...
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Metal Finishing Room at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men working at tables in the metal finishing room of the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Stacks of parts are piled on the floor, and a hat and coat are han...
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Men Working in McCormick Foundry

Date: 1900
Description: View across foundry floor of factory workers in a large room with high ceilings, vent hoods and skylights at McCormick Works. Two men in the middle ground ...
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Sheet Metal Factory Worker

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Description: A boy (teenager?) works in a sheet metal factory.
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Manufacturing Enameled Metalware

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Description: Several men dip pitchers and pails to apply metal at Vollrath Company.
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Factory Workers Iron Molding at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers pouring hot metal into molds, most likely at the McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago.
Document

Champion Buckle Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Champion Buckle of Janesville, Wisconsin, a buckle manufacturer, with an image of leather strapping fastened with a buckle. Various buckles a...
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Man at McCormick Works Furnace

Date: 1900
Description: A factory worker, facing away from the camera, is standing on a wooden bench and is using a tool to reach into a furnace at the McCormick Reaper Works. Mol...
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Metal Foundry

Date: 1960
Description: Joe Weyenberg and two other men work with molten metal at the Roloff Manufacturing Company.
Manuscript

Earth Metal Advertisement

Date: 1981
Description: Back of a "Get The Red Edge" advertisement mailer for IH patented Earth Metal disk blades. Text highlights the "super hard and super tough" disk blades tha...

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