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Steelworkers Costume Party Winners

Date: 11 08 1947
Description: Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation).
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Decorative Aluminum Foil Display

Date: 03 02 1949
Description: Decorative aluminum foil display with sign, "Make Your Own Decorations With 'RP' Decorative Aluminum Foil" featuring rolls of foil, decorations made of foi...
Postcard

Tall-tale Postcard: Big Pike

Date: 1910
Description: A group of working class men stand staring at a giant pike fish resting on a long, wooden horse-drawn sled. The scene takes place in an industrial district...
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Smelter Workers

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Description: Smelter Workers posing, singing together at Highlander Folk School. A woman holding a camera is taking a picture of them.
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MacArthur Week Scrap Collection

Date: 1942
Description: Men working on a "MacArthur Week" scrap drive near an International Harvester dealership. Two men are on the flatbed of a truck, and there is also a horse-...
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Scrap Metal Parade

Date: 11 20 1951
Description: The Cambridge High School marching band goes down North Pinckney Street during the Scrap Metal Parade around the Capitol Square. Shown in the background ar...
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Furniture Hardware

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Description: Detail of the hardware on a chest of drawers, handcrafted by Aslak Lie.
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Professional illustration art of a hydraulic automatic lathe. The close-up view shows a machining tool with angled bits, presumably at Gisholt Machine Comp...
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 ...
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Gisholt Commercial Art

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Description: Professional illustration art of the No. 12 Automatic Production Lathe by Gisholt Machine Company with a close=up of the product plate and trademark. The b...
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Two Blacksmiths

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Description: Two men are standing in a blacksmith shop. One man is working at an anvil, the other stands with his hands on his hips. They are wearing leather aprons. Hu...

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