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| Date: | 10 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior of Holmes Tire and Supply Company, 431 West Main Street. View from the rear showing a large truck tire near a display. |
| Date: | 10 29 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior of stockroom in Holmes Tire and Supply Company, 431 West Main Street. |
| Date: | 10 29 1946 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 20 1947 |
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| Description: | William F. Renk pointing to his son Robert Renk (sitting on John Deere tractor with Firestone Tires) and Walter Renk, leaning on the tractor. Another son, ... |
| Date: | 05 20 1947 |
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| Description: | William F. Renk, wearing a suit, and his sons. Left to right are: Walter Renk, Wilbur Renk, both standing, and Robert Renk sitting on a John Deere tractor ... |
| Date: | 05 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Men doing a periodic rotation of the synthetic and recapped tires on one of the two cars parked in front of the Park Hotel, and participating in the Americ... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Victor Marten, a worker at the Gillette factory owned by the United States Rubber Company, feeding rubber into a Banbury mixer. During World War II the go... |
| Date: | 07 1944 |
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| Description: | Two men looking at an automobile's tires at Monona Tire Company, 128 South Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Employee of the United States Rubber Company at Eau Claire removing a tire from the curing mold. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Employees at the United Rubber Company plant in Eau Claire load wrapped tires onto a truck for shipment. |
| Date: | 09 21 1945 |
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| 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. |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 12 15 1945 |
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| Description: | "Ole" Odegaard, tire repairman at Edwards Tire Company, 506 University Avenue, re-treading tires. |
| Date: | 11 1946 |
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| Description: | Exterior of Edwards Tire Company at 505 University Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Three men stand near ventilation fans for cementing machines on the roof of Building #3. |
| 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: | 06 05 1947 |
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| Description: | A view of the duct work in the passenger tire press room on the third floor of Building 7. |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Theresa Meyer and Alice Lee cutting and splicing stock in the bead department. |
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