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Early Electrical Switchboard

Date: 1882
Description: A man shows off an incandescent lamp switchboard with bamboo filiament, lamp receptacle with wooden base, current and pressure indicators and controlling d...
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Ethel Anderson, Linotype Operator

Date: 08 31 1955
Description: Ethel Anderson at the linotype machine in the composing room of Madison Newspapers Incorporated.
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Stanley Prideaux, worker at the Gisholt Machine Company, who is representing the CIO Dane County Industrial Union council on the 1949 Madison C...
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Bing Moy at Steam Press

Date: 07 01 1949
Description: Bing Moy presses shirts at the steam press at Moy's Laundry, 112 N. Pinckney Street.
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Small Child Seated on Horse

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Description: Small girl seated on a horse with man standing nearby, both wearing hats. A steam-powered carousel is on the right, and the steam engine can be seen on the...
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F.M. Smith with Power Unit

Date: 1937
Description: Mr. F.M. Smith, in a bow tie, hat, and trousers with suspenders, stands near the open door of a barn or shed. Inside is his International P-12 power unit.
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Widmer's Cheese Cellars — Packaging Room

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Description: CEO Joe Widmer stands in the newly added area used for cheese packaging.
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Printer at RC Printing

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Description: John Maas, a printer at RC Printing, poses at work.
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Stan Prideaux

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Indoor portrait of Stanley Prideaux, president of the Dane County CIO Council and president of Local 1404 United Steel Workers at Gisholt, the second large...
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Female Marine Carpenter

Date: 02 1945
Description: Private Winnie L. Cockrell, a carpenter from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, at the Mauna Loa Ridge encampment in Honolulu. Cockrell is wea...
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Female Marine Engineer

Date: 02 1945
Description: Private first class Ann D. Dozier, a refrigerating engineer from the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, posing for a photograph at the Mauna Loa R...
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Union Women

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Clara L. Anderson of McFarland operates a machine that puts labels on small batteries. She works at Ray-O-Vac and is a leader in Local 19587, Battery Worke...
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Union Women

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Mabel Pope, assistant secretary of the Local 233 Bakers and Confectioner's Union, operates a bread-wrapping machine at the Kroger Bakery, located at 1053 E...
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Fuller & Johnson Gas Engine Model

Date: 08 1985
Description: "Arnold Hartmann, Mayville, displays a 1/3 scale model Fuller & Johnson gas engine. The engine was machined by Arnie in his elaborate machine shop."
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Man with Machinery at Osborne Works

Date: 1910
Description: A factory worker is standing next to a large piece of machinery at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Around him are ca...
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Factory Worker with Cart at Osborne Works

Date: 1909
Description: A man in overalls stands with a large cart filled with parts at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind him is a wall...
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Polisher at Work

Date: 1910
Description: A workman poses beside a belt-driven polisher inside a shed at the Montello granite quarry. Two other men relax in the background near an open door where n...
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Man Standing in Outdoor Work Area

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Description: Man standing near a large piece of machinery in an outdoor work area. He is wearing dirty canvas pants, work boots and a hat.
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Brooks McCormick

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Description: Quarter-length portrait of Brooks McCormick. Behind him is an instrument panel, with the name "Ingersol" on it.
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Sid Standing with Colleague

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Description: Sid and a colleague standing in what appears to be a work area. Sid is leaning back, while holding a pair of eyeglasses in his right hand and grasping his ...

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