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| Description: | View inside the Allis-Chalmers plant of #27 double discharge Gates Gyratory Breaker during erection. It was built for the Utah Copper Company. There is a m... |
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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: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view of Pawling & Harnischfeger 20-ton type "N" dial controlled cab-operated traveling crane in a machine shop with boiler tubs. The location is p... |
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| Description: | Interior view of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger type "N"model overhead traveling crane with a type "A" trolley. It was called a "Belly Crane" due to th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view of two early 6-ton Pawling & Harnischfeger I-Beam cranes, numbered 123 and 124. The bridges of both are an early "O" type used for short span... |
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| Description: | Interior view of a machine shop outfitted with two early Pawling & Harnischfeger 15-ton, overhead trolley, cab-operated, basic block I-Beam cranes with typ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of an early Pawling & Harnischfeger standard crane in a machine shop with a type "N" bridge and a type "A" trolley. There is an operator in t... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of one of the first Pawling & Harnischfeger machine shops. The building was built in 1886 on the corner of South First Street and East Oregon... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | Men rolling aluminum by hand at the Mirro Aluminum Company. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Engraved bird's-eye view of the wood shop, warehouse, machine shop, dry kilns, and foundry of the Manitowoc Seating Company. Several people pass in front o... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the machine shop at the Lawson plant. There are drill presses and a belt-driven machinery system attached to the open rafters of the ceiling. S... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Lawson plant. At least 18 people are working in the large, open room. Belt-driven machinery is attached to the rafters of the open cei... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the interior of the Lawson plant, a large open room with exposed ceiling and windows lining both walls. Part of the fuselage for a Lawson ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Lawson machine shop, with two Lawson engines, one housed in part of a fuselage, the other set on a wooden support. A long wooden frame is i... |
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| Description: | Gisholt Standard Turret Lathe. The metal stamp states: "Gisholt Machine Co. Madison, Wis., U.S.A." Gisholt was the first company to specialize in heavy typ... |
| Date: | 03 20 1930 |
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| Description: | View inside a 7-D Comet aircraft engine manufacturing and assembly plant. An engine with nose cowling, propeller shaft and cylinders is supported by an eng... |
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| Description: | View of new turret lathe (center) manufactured by American Tool Works. It is standing on a factory floor flanked by other similar machines that are attache... |
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| Description: | Factory workers standing with their arms crossed on the plant floor in the Gisholt Department of the Buick Company Plant #1 alongside lathes, and machined ... |
| Date: | 12 28 1920 |
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| Description: | This automatic turret lathe, photographed inside the factory shop in front of a sweep, was manufactured in 20" and 30" sizes. Produced by 1920, promotional... |
| Date: | 09 03 1927 |
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| Description: | Automatic saddle lathe in the factory shop. Promotional material for the Gisholt Machine Company states that "for duplication of machined castings and forg... |
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