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| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 01 1937 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Goodrich tire salesmen, at a Goodrich Service Station. |
| Date: | 09 20 1934 |
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| Description: | Two men retreading tires at Edwards Tire Company, located at 124 W. Main Street. |
| Date: | 07 11 1934 |
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| Description: | Goodrich Silvertown, Inc. 515 University Avenue, office, with four employees at desks. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 15 1945 |
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| Description: | "Ole" Odegaard, tire repairman at Edwards Tire Company, 506 University Avenue, re-treading tires. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. A man is using a machine to wrap canvas around a rubber tire. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Four men work inside the Boone Tire Factory. |
| Date: | 08 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Men working in the tool room, located in the northeast corner of Building #15. |
| Date: | 03 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Men working in the passenger curing unit "V" on the first floor of Building #8. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Veteran tire builder Bill McNair works on a pocket while constructing a heavy service truck tire. Two men wearing suits and hats stand in the left backgrou... |
| Date: | 10 21 1944 |
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| Description: | The first tire to be cured in the Gillette Tire Plant is removed from the mold. From left to right are F.B. Davis Jr. (Chairman of the United States Rubber... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Bagging the first tire made in the Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are H.A. Berg, C.E. Stare, F.A. Cobb, F.J. Amundson, R.L. Chatterson, R.J. Hanse... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Bill Mcnair rolls the tread onto a tire as two other men look on at the Rubber Company's Gillette Tire Plant. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Seven men pose together as the first raw tire at the Gillette Tire Plant is put into a vacuum expander. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Severin Gullickson applies a circumferential wrap to a wire bead while building a tire at Gillette Tire Plant. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Tom Ellington cutting rubber from a roll to make a tire at the Gillette Tire Plant. |
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