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Women Inspecting Gun Parts International Harvester Factory

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: Female factory workers inspect parts at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Many small parts for the gun a...
Photograph

Special Machine Tool Shop

Date: 05 02 1942
Description: Factory workers rebuilding production machinery at International Harvester's "Special Machine Tool Shop." Original caption reads: "All old machine tools co...
Photograph

Milling Crankshaft Bearings at Indianapolis Works

Date: 1938
Description: Factory worker near a conveyor belt at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. The man has tattoos on both arms. Original caption states: "Newton Ris...
Photograph

Birds-Eye View of Akron Works

Date: 1920
Description: Bird-eye view of factory buildings at International Harvester's Akron Works.
Photograph

Gisholt Movie

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Description: Three men are looking on, one running the movie camera, as a Gisholt worker is filmed working at a machine. The three men behind the camera are wearing sui...
Photograph

Gisholt Machine Company Sales Material

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Description: Drawing depicting a man with a moustache, eyeglasses, and a safari hat smoking a pipe above the words "Gisholt Sales Safari."
Photograph

Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting a man wearing a suit and a safari hat crouching on the ground next to his briefcase, following the scent of an "Order" to dollar signs. T...
Photograph

Gisholt Sales Safari Lion

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Description: Gisholt Sales Safari drawing depicting a man wearing a suit and a safari hat carrying a briefcase on a stick over his shoulder. He has a hand over his eyes...
Photograph

Swatting on the Gisholt Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting the Gisholt Sales Safari man lunging to catch an "Order" and dollar signs with a flyswatter. His hat is falling off his head. On the left...
Photograph

Using Tact on Gisholt Sales Safari

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Description: Drawing depicting the Gisholt Sales Safari man using "Tact" to keep a gorilla happy. The man, who is sweating and holding something in his hand as an offer...
Photograph

Gisholt V12 Machinery

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Description: Rendering of a new piece of Gisholt V12 machinery.
Photograph

Sid in a Printing Room

Date: 12 1968
Description: Sid posing next to the print dryer in the printing room near the darkroom at Gisholt Machine Company. He has his signature cigar, holding it to his mouth. ...
Drawing

Santa Claus Riding a Turret Lathe

Date: 1953
Description: Composite drawing of Santa Claus riding a Gisholt Machine Company lathe as a sleigh and holding a starred whip in hand to guide a team of eight flying rein...
Print

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of a machine operator working on a six-arm turret. He is wearing a billed cap and safety goggles.
Drawing

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of an engineer wearing work clothes and introducing a Gisholt Machine Company turret lathe.
Painting

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Illustration art of a hand using a control arm with a ball-end on Hydraulic Automatic Lathe manufactured by Gisholt Machine Company. White line over-image ...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

Date: 08 1942
Description: Illustration art of a machine operator in work clothes and a billed cap with safety goggles standing next to a Type S Dynetric Balancer at the Howell Elect...
Historical Object

"LIFE Visits Gisholt and Our Boy Sid"

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Description: Collage of a color newsprint comic of a photographer, who is operating a fantastic "Rube Goldberg" type camera with innumerable gadgets attached. The photo...
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Color illustration art of a man operating a lathe at Gisholt Machine Company. A photograph has been heavily airbrushed with color.
Photograph

Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Machinist cooling a six-sided turret head at Gisholt Machine Company.

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