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Paul Steffes, UAW Local 75

Date: 02 1948
Description: Paul Steffes, secretary-treasurer of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) at his desk.
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Railroad Office

Date: 1887
Description: General office of the Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway Company in the Mitchell Building in Milwaukee. Left to right: the individual seated in left ...
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Law Office

Date: 1894
Description: Patent attorney Charles L. Goss (seated), with clerk Arthur Muerless in the law offices of Winkler, Flanders, Smith, Bottum, & Vilas.
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Police Strategy Session

Date: 11 21 1956
Description: Uniformed police officers looking over a laid out map with potential escape routes.
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Railroad Speed Recorder

Date: 03 05 1939
Description: George Jung, a Milwaukee Road speed recorder, comparing speed tapes from locomotives with master tapes covering the same division. The scale of the tapes i...
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Workers with Newspaper Photographs

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Description: Newspaper workers perusing hundreds of photographs. There are three men holding some of the photographs and the rest are mounted on the walls around them.
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J. Robert Taylor at Desk

Date: 1938
Description: Informal portrait of J. Robert Taylor at his desk talking on the phone.
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Packard Auto

Date: 1931
Description: Two employees of Packard Auto in front of the service department office with a parked automobile.
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Man Viewing Computer Program

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Description: An unidentified Falk employee views a technical drawing on a computer screen. Original Falk caption reads, "Person in CAD room looking at CRT screen with m...
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Chief Clancy

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Description: Fire Department chief, sitting at a desk in a profile view.
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E.J. Leiser, Superintendent of Milwaukee Works

Date: 01 1936
Description: Original caption reads: "E.J. Leiser, superintendent of Milwaukee Works. Starting as an office clerk in 1905 and transferring to shop work two years later....
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P&H Engineering Department, South End Drafting Room

Date: 1913
Description: Men at their desks in the engineering department, the south end drafting room, of Pawling & Harnischfeger.
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P&H Engineering Department, North End Drafting Room

Date: 1913
Description: Men at their desks in the engineering department, the north end drafting room, of Pawling & Harnischfeger.
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P&H Accounting Office

Date: 08 12 1913
Description: Two men working a desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger accounting office. There are photographs on the wall, including a crane, the P&H plant, and a St. Lo...
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P&H Advertising Room

Date: 08 15 1913
Description: Men at desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger advertising department. Large windows on left look out towards another building, and men on equipment can be se...
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P&H Shop Office

Date: 08 15 1913
Description: Men working at desks at the Pawling & Harnischfeger shop office. A row of windows is on the left, and another building can be seen through an open window.
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Harold Gauer Typing with Foot

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Description: Harold Gauer is sitting at a desk wearing a pinstriped suit. His left foot is bare and "typing" at a typewriter, while he reads a note and talks on the tel...
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Milt Polland at Desk

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Description: Milt Polland wearing eyeglasses and a bow tie sits at a cluttered desk with framed photographs visible on the wall in the background. Gauer worked for Poll...
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Harold Gauer and Robert Bloch in Office

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Description: Political "masterminds" at work during the Zeidler campaign in rented offices.
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Robert Bloch and Harold Gauer

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Description: Spoofing as the "Big Boys" in their rented offices during the Zeidler campaign.

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