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Hydraulics Laboratory Addition

Date: 03 28 1929
Description: Men working on the concrete forms for the roof of the addition to the University of Wisconsin hydraulics laboratory, 660 N. Park Street looking north over ...
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Quinn Construction Company Steam Shovel

Date: 10 03 1928
Description: Quinn Construction Company steam shovel excavating for the First Congregational Church, 1609 University Avenue. There is a house in the background.
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Gardner Bakery Donut Making

Date: 04 02 1928
Description: Gardner Baking Company making Purity Doughnuts. Doughnuts are coming down a chute from a machine, and a baker is standing and attending one of the machines...
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Oiling the Machine

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Description: A man uses an oil can to lubricate equipment in a machine shop.
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Home Workshop

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Description: A man cuts a block of wood on a table saw in his workshop.
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Precison Cutting

Date: 1950
Description: Two men operate a machine that uses wires to make equal portions out of a large slab of butter.
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Quick Set

Date: 04 26 1954
Description: Intern holds letter set and watches Linotype operator at "Mid-County Times" newspaper room.
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Workers on Assembly Line at Osborne Works

Date: 12 10 1920
Description: Factory workers on a farm implement assembly line at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works).
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Implement Assembly Line at Osborne Works

Date: 01 26 1921
Description: Workers assembling farm implements at International Harvester's Osborne Works.
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Working at the Parker Pen Factory

Date: 10 16 1952
Description: A worker is using a machine to cut metal strips for fountain pen nibs at the Parker Pen factory.
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IH Model 200 Power Unit and Model 1-b Hammer Mill

Date: 1939
Description: A group of workers grinding fertilizer with a power hammer mill. Original captions reads: "The Fish Meal Company of Fernandina, Florida, uses this Interna...
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Workers Assembling Gun Carriages

Date: 1943
Description: Workers on an assembly line at an International Harvester factory. The original caption reads: "assembling 57mm gun carriages."
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Military Truck Assembly

Date: 12 27 1944
Description: Factory workers assembling the steering gear on a military truck at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works.
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McCormick Works Manufacturing Area

Date: 1900
Description: A large room with manufacturing equipment at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's factory ("reaper works") in Chicago. Men in work clothes are at so...
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Early Electrical Switchboard

Date: 1882
Description: A man shows off an incandescent lamp switchboard with bamboo filiament, lamp receptacle with wooden base, current and pressure indicators and controlling d...
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Sheet Metal Press Room

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Description: The general press room is where sheet metal is made into housing for transformers, and fibre and bakelite insulators are formed at Thordarson Electical Man...
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First Gillette Company Tire

Date: 1917
Description: Interior shot of a group of men, women and boys at the Gillette Tire Company. The Gillette Safety Tire Company was founded in Eau Claire in 1916 and the cr...
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CUNA Bridge Magazine, Folding Machine

Date: 06 04 1947
Description: Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue, showing two men with the folding machine.
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Joe Hess using Barrel Head Circling Machine

Date: 1952
Description: Joe Hess using a circling machine to create a barrel head at the Hess Cooperage.
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Badger Spelling Bee

Date: 01 14 1954
Description: Nancy Staudenraus, "Wisconsin State Journal" librarian and assistant Spelling Bee director, and Ernest P. Green, day foreman of the press room, looking at ...

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