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| Date: | 06 10 1924 |
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| Description: | Worker stands on a Nordberg machine on the floor of what is likely a plant owned by Republic Iron & Steel Co. |
| Date: | 02 01 1929 |
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| Description: | A crushing machine is displayed as part of a Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company road equipment exhibit on Monona Avenue (Martin Luther King Blvd.). |
| Date: | 02 28 1928 |
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| Description: | Hobart Manufacturing Co. Store, showing Toledo Scales, at 407 State Street. |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Advertising catalog for Austin motor graders and pup rollers with International (McCormick-Deering) 10-20 and 15-30 power plants. The cover features a blac... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | The Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. One of the largest machinery manufacturing plants in America, which produces turbine engines, gas producer engines, pu... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. office building. Caption reads: "Office Building, Allis-Chalmers Mfg. Co., West Allis, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. One of the largest machinery manufacturing plants in America, which produces turbine engines, gas produ... |
| Date: | 1923 |
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| Description: | A machine and repair shop, 228 East Main Street, shows an example of the Dutch style front. The shop was originally the Frank J. Fleckenstein residence. |
| Date: | 02 25 1924 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of machinery and machine parts in a large room. The machinery is belt driven from overhead. Light is flooding in from the windows an... |
| Date: | 02 25 1924 |
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| Description: | Stored in a large room are rows of tractors. Along the left and right corner are stacked beams. Light streams in from skylights in the ceiling. The factory... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Bird-eye view of factory buildings at International Harvester's Akron Works. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | View up ramp towards the "Auto Wash" entrance door of a brick building using the Air-lec pneumatic door opening system invented by Louis Schoelkopf. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Air-Lec automatic door opening button, which reads: "Schoelkopf Mfg. Co. Madison, Wis. AIR-LEC Opens or Closes Doors Automatically PRESS." |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Schoelkopf Air-Lec Manufacturing facility at 320 N. Third Street. A number of signs on the back wall describe the Air-Lec's features. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Framed display of a photograph or illustration of double doors with the Air-Lec automatic door opener system. The sign on the door reads: "Sound Horn! Air-... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | A young girl is standing in front of a curtain while reaching up a hand to push a button that will open Air-Lec automatic doors. Equipment is on the left. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Air-Lec automatic door opener indoors. This device, which was pneumatic, is installed on a garage door. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Indoor view of an Air-Lec automatic door opener on a sliding garage door. There is a Ford car in the garage stall. The license plate on the car is 30-033. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Air-Lec pneumatic automatic door opener with button and wire set up on a board. The manufacturing plant on N. Third Street began operation in 1922. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Outdoor view of an Air-Lec automatic door opener for swinging doors set up on a wood plank on a rooftop. Probably the top of Schoelkopf's manufacturing pla... |
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