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Filter: Year of 1900-1999
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sisal (hennequen) fiber streaming from machines at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 09 23 1942 |
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| Description: | Label submitted to the State of Wisconsin for trademark registration. "Polaris Custom Designed Angora Comforter." Features a five pointed silver colored st... |
| Date: | 03 20 1957 |
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| Description: | Joy Kelley, home economics teaching assistant in clothing & textiles, does research toward her master's degree. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View down the center aisle of International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. On either side of the aisle factory workers are producing balls of twine. The f... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Factory workers, possibly including two women, are wearing work clothes while standing at work stations in a room filled with large machinery at Internatio... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers are standing at work stations next to large pieces of manufacturing equipment at International Harvester's Osborne Works (l... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A factory worker stacks wrapped and tied bundles of twine into a large pile in the Twine Mill at Osborne Works (later known as Auburn Works). Behind the ma... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A man dressed in work clothes and a hat is stacking bales of pressed manila hemp into a very large pile that almost reaches the ceiling of the storage barn... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A woman dressed in a uniform and puffy hat is standing and operating a large twine machine. To her left is a man dressed in work clothes who appears to be ... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A man wearing work clothes and a hat is bending forward with his arms spread wide on either side of a twine machine feeding material, probably hemp, into t... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A woman is operating a large, complicated piece of twine machinery. She is wearing a dark skirt and blouse covered by a smock, and her hair is in a large p... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A woman with a broom is standing behind a large piece of twine machinery and is cleaning it with a broom. The woman is dressed in a smock and hat. Behind h... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A woman is crouching next to a large piece of twine machinery cleaning it. The woman is dressed in a smock and hat. Behind her the room is filled with mach... |
| Date: | 10 01 1913 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in front of a large pile of manila hemp fiber. The fiber was used to create twine. The man is wearing overalls over his clothing and has ... |
| Date: | 09 29 1913 |
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| Description: | A man is feeding a large bundle of manila hemp fiber into a piece of twine machinery. The man is dressed in overalls and has his sleeves rolled up. Surroun... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A female technician is at a workbench testing dyes for nylon carpet. The woman is wearing a white lab coat and apron, and has a beehive or bouffant hairsty... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | Workers in a carpet factory apply latex backing to hold yarn in place. The workers are standing on a slightly raised platorm, and the carpet is being fed v... |
| Date: | 1970 |
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| Description: | A woman is working on a tufting carpet loom. She is leaning into the loom which has a large number of individual strands of yarn on top, and gray material,... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over the Baraboo River towards a dam, with a mill on the opposite shoreline. A bridge and a business district are in the background. |
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