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| Description: | Four workers are shown in Lebanon Chain Works, the site of the production of the largest chain in the world, measuring 3 3/16 inches. |
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| Description: | The L.S. Starrett Company, a mechanical tool manufacturer, was founded in 1880. |
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| Description: | The L.S. Starrett Company, a mechanical tool manufacturer, was founded in 1880. |
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| Description: | The Union Twist Drill Company became Athol's second largest industry by 1930. The company was founded in 1905 as a manufacturer of metal cutting tools. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Men working in the machine shops of the National Manufacturing Company, founded in 1901. |
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| Description: | A view of a group of children getting ready for morning chores at Bethany Orphans' Home. Some boys hold lawn mowers and other yard tools, and the home can ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Close-up of a man's arm using a wrench to make adjustments to a P&O tractor plow hitched to a tractor. |
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| Description: | A view of soldiers digging trenches, some holding shovels or pickaxes, at Camp Travis, named in 1917. |
| Date: | 04 1965 |
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| Description: | Governor Warren Knowles holding a fishing pole and a fly. He is seated at a table covered in fishing tackle and additional fishing gear hangs on a rack at ... |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Two men standing near the open doorway of a shed while using a hand-operated knife grinder to sharpen a sickle bar or blade. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Three men working at a site for a new pit silo on an International Harvester demonstration farm. |
| Date: | 05 1924 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a cap and overalls holding a burlap feed bag while standing near feed bins in the poultry house of Professor Holden. Tools are hanging from n... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | A man wearing a necktie and collared shirt using an axe to butcher a chicken on a block of wood at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. A ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of blind men learning carpentry skills at the United States General Hospital No. 7, as designated by the surgeon-general in 1918. Intended for returni... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man crouching in a farm field near a wooden tool, possibly doing irrigation work. A dirt road behind the man leads to several buildings and a water tower... |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A man holding a metal instrument approaching a tree stump to inspect why a dynamite blast did not go off. |
| Date: | 07 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is kneeling on the ground beside a mower hitched to two horses while performing repairs. An agricultural tool is lying on the ground beside him. |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Group of men gathered to test soil for acidity. Original caption reads: "This picture was taken in Dupage County during the Alfalfa Campaign in 1913, showi... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Group of young women, probably students, assembling wooden nail boxes and benches in a classroom. |
| Date: | 08 1919 |
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| Description: | A large group of men and women, probably teachers, stand outside at work benches assembling wood products, which include nail boxes and benches. |
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