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Worker at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1920
Description: Worker assembling a tank at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902.
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Down in the Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Miners in the bowels of a lead mine.
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Precise Cuts

Date: 1950
Description: A jigsaw in the hands of Harry Westphal makes smooth curves on the end of a piece of wood.
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President Harry S. Truman Visit

Date: 05 14 1950
Description: President Harry S. Truman visited Madison to be present at the laying of the cornerstone for the CUNA's Filene House, 1617 Sherman Avenue. He is pictured ...
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Vocational and Adult School Television Repair Course

Date: 04 11 1951
Description: Jim Studee, left, and Gordon Jenkins, students in the television repair course offered at the Madison Vocational and Adult school, build a television set. ...
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Making Germination Boxes and Corn Racks

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
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Man Testing Telegraph Equipment

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Description: A man testing telegraph equipment at the U.S. Naval Training School (Radio).
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Man Working on Cub Cadet

Date: 06 1961
Description: A man attaches wheels to an International Cub Cadet lawn tractor at the company's Louisville Works factory. Other men are working in the background.
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Louisville Works Assembly Line

Date: 06 1961
Description: Elevated view of factory workers piecing together Cub Cadet parts along an assembly line at International Harvester's Louisville Works.
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Men Along Assembly Line

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of factory workers assembling pieces of the Cub Cadet lawn tractor while standing on either side of an assembly line at International Harvest...
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Assembling Cub Cadets

Date: 06 1961
Description: Factory workers at International Harvester's Louisville Works assemble Cub Cadet lawn tractors.
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Manufacturing a Cub Cadet

Date: 06 1961
Description: A factory worker pieces together what appears to be an instrument console for a Cub Cadet lawn tractor at International Harvester's Louisville Works.
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Men Assembling Cub Cadet

Date: 06 1961
Description: Factory workers stand on either side of a Cub Cadet lawn tractor at International Harvester's Louisville Works as they fit a piece over the machine's body.
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Hunt Harness Workshop

Date: 2004
Description: Greg Hunt has converted this barn into a fine workshop for making high quality harnesses. He has two full-time employees. His harnesses are shipped to some...
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A Structural Technology Student

Date: 12 11 1961
Description: A structural technology student works on a project in a drawing class at the Milwaukee Institute of Technology.
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Skill and Safety Class

Date: 10 15 1966
Description: Instructor George Finco (right) teaches skill and safety to students Michael Edler (left) and Jeff Zinuticz in the Custer High School foundry.
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Schierl's Blacksmith Shop

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Description: Leander Schierl, Wendelin Schierl, and a young boy inside Schierl's Blacksmith Shop. Leander bends over, shoeing the horse, while his father observes. On t...
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Local Boilermakers and Helpers

Date: 1914
Description: Boilermakers and their helpers pose on and around a horse-drawn wagon that bears a sign that reads "Boiler-makers and Helpers," perhaps for a parade. Man o...
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Joe Dottl at The Ideal Body Company

Date: 1955
Description: Joe Dottl standing in the Ideal Body Company on Park Street.

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