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Interior of Battery Factory

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Description: French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant.
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Female Auto Workers

Date: 1918
Description: Women working on the automobile assembly line at Nash Motors (later American Motors) during World War I.
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Smashing Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 1948
Description: John Roach, director of the state beverage and cigarette tax division, using a sledge hammer to smash illegal slot machines.
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Tire Factory Interior

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi...
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Reliance Iron Works Interior

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Description: Interior of the Reliance Iron Works.
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Slot Machine Seizure

Date: 01 1924
Description: Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i...
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Shop at Eilert Farm Equipment Company

Date: 1938
Description: Interior view of the shop in Eilert Farm Equipment Company, showing the drill press and the big vise, in the center.
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Eilert's Sample Floor

Date: 1938
Description: Interior view at Eilert's Farm Equipment Company showing the showroom floor. Eilert's was an International Harvester dealership.
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Machinery Side of Rushour Co., Inc. Plant

Date: 10 05 1936
Description: Interior view of men working inside Rushour Manufacturing Company at 2070 Helena Street.
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Packing Bacon

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Description: Three women packing "All Good" brand bacon.
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An Assembly Line of the Ford Motor Company

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Description: Men working on the automobile assembly line in the Rouge Plant of the Ford Motor Company.
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Machinery on a Pier

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Description: Machinery, probably a pump, situated on a pier.
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Stone Crushing Plant

Date: 10 20 1928
Description: View of the Stone Crushing Plant on Hwy #27 near Soldiers Grove.
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Making Pills

Date: 07 02 1942
Description: Pharmacist Edward Burke uses a small metal machine to help him make capsules of medicine. A woman is sitting at a table in the background.
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Typesetters at International Harvester Press

Date: 1947
Description: Two men operating monotype keyboards at International Harvester Press. The paper-punched product later goes through a caster, which makes new type to print...
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Chassis Assembly

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Description: General Motors chassis assembly. Men are working among the machinery.
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Binder Assembly at Deering Works

Date: 1905
Description: Men assembling binders at International Harvester's Deering Works (factory). The factory was originally built by William Deering for the Deering Harvester ...
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Springfield Works Factory Scene

Date: 1930
Description: Men operating large machines at International Harvester's Springfield Works. The factory produced trucks.
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Pfister and Vogel Tannery

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Description: Interior view of the Pfister and Vogel Tannery, with a man working on leather at a machine.
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Analyzing Composition of Cement

Date: 09 20 1956
Description: Katharine Mather of the Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station checks a computer analysis of the composition of cement.

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