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Tire Factory Interior

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi...
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Truck Tires

Date: 02 22 1942
Description: Truck tires from a burned Gateway truck.
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Goodrich Tire Salesmen

Date: 04 01 1937
Description: Group portrait of Goodrich tire salesmen, at a Goodrich Service Station.
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Tire Retreading at Edwards Tire Co.

Date: 09 20 1934
Description: Two men retreading tires at Edwards Tire Company, located at 124 W. Main Street.
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Goodrich Silvertown, Inc. Office

Date: 07 11 1934
Description: Goodrich Silvertown, Inc. 515 University Avenue, office, with four employees at desks.
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Hill's Dry Goods Store Tire Department

Date: 04 27 1933
Description: Hill's Dry Goods Store, new Firestone Tire shop, 202 State Street.
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Holmes Tire and Supply Co. Interior

Date: 10 29 1946
Description: Interior of Holmes Tire and Supply Company, 431 West Main Street. View from the rear showing a large truck tire near a display.
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Holmes Tire and Supply Co. Warehouse Interior

Date: 10 29 1946
Description: Interior of stockroom in Holmes Tire and Supply Company, 431 West Main Street.
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Holmes Tire and Supply Co. Tire Recapping Department

Date: 10 29 1946
Description: Interior of Holmes Tire and Supply Company, 431 West Main Street. View of the recapping department with two workers, equipment, and many tires of different...
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First Gillette Company Tire

Date: 1917
Description: Interior shot of a group of men, women and boys at the Gillette Tire Company. The Gillette Safety Tire Company was founded in Eau Claire in 1916 and the cr...
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Shipping Tractor Tires

Date: 09 21 1945
Description: Two workers at the United Rubber Company plant at Eau Claire, Alfred Stokes and Eugene Stafford, loading large farm tires onto a railroad car for shipment.
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Woman Rubber Worker

Date: 01 12 1949
Description: Isabel Olson, an employee of the United Rubber Company in Eau Claire, examining fabric for a pocket in a heavy service tire. Although most women who joine...
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Edwards Tire Company

Date: 12 15 1945
Description: "Ole" Odegaard, tire repairman at Edwards Tire Company, 506 University Avenue, re-treading tires.
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Assembling Truck Wheels at Springfield Works

Date: 1930
Description: Factory workers assembling pneumatic (rubber) truck tires at International Harvester's Springfield Works. There is a pile of rubber tires and metal rims in...
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Overtire on Single Rim Farmall Wheel

Date: 03 15 1930
Description: Engineering photograph of an "overtire on single rim Farmall wheel".
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Boone Tire Factory

Date: 1919
Description: Three men use three different pieces of machinery in various stages of the tire-making process at the Boone Tire Factory. Stacks of tires are piled around ...
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Man Using Tire-Making Machinery

Date: 1919
Description: Interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. A man is using a machine to wrap canvas around a rubber tire.
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Tire Factory Interior

Date: 1919
Description: Interior view of room at the Boone Tire Factory. Tires are stacked on the floor and in racks. In the left foreground is a large desk with hutch and two cha...
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Filling Tire Molds

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of a room in the Boone Tire Factory. Two men are removing a tire from a mold, one of many running along a conveyor belt inside the Boone Tire...
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Tire-Making Machinery

Date: 1919
Description: A piece of unidentified machinery for making tires inside the Boone Tire Factory.

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