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| Description: | Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F... |
| Date: | 01 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Schoelkopf Manufacturing Company, 320 North 3rd Street, between East Johnson Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. Louis Schoelkopf invented and manufactured the... |
| Date: | 10 27 1942 |
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| Description: | Keen Manufacturing Co., 2661 East Washington Avenue. Sign on side of building: "Keen Mfg. Co. We specialize in Metal Stampings, We manufacture Metal Specia... |
| Date: | 09 28 1934 |
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| Description: | At Gabbei Motor Co. at 412 East Washington Avenue, one man works on the engine of a car while another machines a part in the company garage. |
| Date: | 11 17 1930 |
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| Description: | View from street of the Advanced Machine Works building, at 319-321 East Wilson Street. |
| Date: | 02 15 1930 |
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| Description: | Capital Plating & Machine Company, 418 Division Street. |
| Date: | 01 25 1929 |
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| Description: | A tank truck that sprays road oil is parked in front of Wisconsin Foundry & Machine Company, located at 613-629 East Main Street. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of industrial area. The building in the foreground has a sign that reads: "Machine Shop" on it roof. People are working in a large open area,... |
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| Description: | The original shop in the Davidson family backyard where the first Harley-Davidson motorcycles were assembled. There is snow on the ground. The sign on the ... |
| Date: | 07 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Monarch Machine Shop, Inc., 2530 Pennsylvania Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 09 1948 |
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| Description: | Monarch Machine Shop at 2530 Pennsylvania Avenue, with metal projects and parts in yard. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of shop floor of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger 20-ton type "N" dial controlled cab-operated traveling crane. The crane is in machine sho... |
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| Description: | Interior view of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger type "N"model overhead traveling crane with a type "A" trolley. It was called a "Belly Crane" due to th... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Interior view of two early 6-ton Pawling & Harnischfeger I-Beam cranes, numbered 123 and 124. The bridges of both are an early "O" type used for short span... |
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| Description: | Interior view of a machine shop outfitted with two early Pawling & Harnischfeger 15-ton, overhead trolley, cab-operated, basic block I-Beam cranes with typ... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of one of the first Pawling & Harnischfeger machine shops. The building was built in 1886 on the corner of South First Street and East Oregon... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mechanics work on tractors and a truck in the service shop of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising banners hang from the ceiling and in the b... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A group of eight men pose in the back of a room against a row of windows in a machine shop. There are overhead belts that power a row of grind stones; meta... |
| Date: | 11 12 1948 |
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| Description: | View from across street of employees of Peters Tools, Local 100, standing on the sidewalk in front of the brick storefront with a number of cases at their ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Wm. Goodnow Bay State Foundry & Machine Shop, or "Bay State" Iron Works, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which fabricated steam engines and boil... |
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