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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
| Date: | 04 04 1943 |
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| Description: | A member of the U.S. Coast Guard Hospital Corps School uses the traditional pharmacist's tool of a mortar & pestle to grind medicinal ingredients for a pre... |
| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mechanics working inside the service center of an International Harvester dealership. The door of one of the trucks is painted "McCormick-Deering Store." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Mechanic taking apart a tractor engine in the service department of the Snake River Equipment Company, an International Harvester dealership. An Internatio... |
| Date: | 08 18 1943 |
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| Description: | A workman grinds a cylinder head at Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company, 754 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 12 27 1940 |
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| Description: | Mechanic demonstrating products to a group of mechanics in the work shop, Schultz Tire and Battery Service, 1336 Regent Street. |
| Date: | 08 14 1946 |
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| Description: | Five men are rebuilding the "Fairchild" exchange switchboard at the Wisconsin Telephone Company building. Four women telephone operators in the background ... |
| 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: | 10 30 1946 |
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| Description: | Interior of Four Lakes Sports Company at 2441 East Washington Avenue. Shows part of office, workshop, and gun rack with guns, in relation to open stairway.... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers installing rear wheels and tires on Farmall tractors at International Harvester's Farmall Works. |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Possibly Louis J. Ropson, a farmer and violin maker from Luxemburg who lived in Dyckesville. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Two mechanics working on tractors and implements in the service shop of Rogers Truck & Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership. The tracto... |
| Date: | 10 30 1946 |
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| Description: | Close-up view from the top of an open stairway construction area showing steps and other materials at the Four Lakes Sports Company. Taken for the Continen... |
| Date: | 04 02 1947 |
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| Description: | Winnebago Auto Replacement Company, 103 North Park Street. Interior view showing machine shop with five machinists at work. |
| Date: | 12 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Automotive Mechanics class at East High School. Pictured are Irving Smith with a power driven valve seat grinder, and Bob Koltes checking his work. |
| Date: | 11 05 1944 |
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| Description: | Automotive Mechanics class at East High School. Ralph Preez and Bob Mattison are checking a set of headlights. |
| Date: | 12 20 1944 |
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| Description: | A mechanic in the service department of Hefty Sales Corporation is preparing to do a complete overhaul of a washing machine. |
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