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Assembly Work

Date: 1950
Description: A woman looks over parts used as bases for miniature Christmas trees.
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Working the Linotype

Date: 1950
Description: A woman types text into a linotype machine.
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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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Woman Working on Midget Mill in Torpedo Plant

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: Woman working on a midget mill that cuts spiral grooves and moves at a rate of about 3500 r.p.m. The woman operating this machine was a former drill press ...
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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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International Type M Engine

Date: 1920
Description: International Type M power unit photographed with a white sheet as a backdrop.
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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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"Good Night" on Machinery at McCormick Works

Date: 05 08 1918
Description: Machinery at International Harvester's McCormick Works. Parts are layed out in front of the machine, and "Good Night" is written on the side in chalk.
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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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Top Construction of World Trade Center

Date: 1969
Description: The top portion of construction on the World Trade Center, looking past a street lamp post and up into the network of cranes and metal.
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Construction of World Trade Center

Date: 1969
Description: Looking up at the construction of the two towers of the World Trade Center.

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