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Richard Ela Company

Date: 09 29 1945
Description: Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street, selling industrial and welding equipment and supplies and Hanley Implement Company, 740 Williamson Street, sell...
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Richard Ela Company

Date: 09 29 1945
Description: Vertical view of the Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street selling industrial and welding equipment and supplies and Hanley Implement Company 740 Will...
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Welding a Milk Truck

Date: 1949
Description: Welding a milk truck at the Heil Corporation in Milwaukee. The Heil company was founded by German-born Julius P. Heil in 1901. As the Heil Rail Joint Wel...
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Enola the Welder

Date: 02 1943
Description: Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o...
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Mobile Machine Shop

Date: 12 20 1943
Description: A man welding in the back of a mobile machine shop out in a field near a tractor is able to modify parts of experimental harvesting machines on location. A...
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Welding and Paint Room

Date: 1937
Description: A mechanic stoops to weld a part of an International truck in the welding and paint room of International's Manhattan truck branch.
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Mechanic Welding at Owenhouse Hardware Company

Date: 1944
Description: A mechanic welding on a TracTracTor (crawler tractor) in a shop at Owenhouse Hardware Company, an International Harvester dealership.
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Men Cut Scrap Iron with Torch

Date: 1942
Description: A group looks on as a man uses a cutting torch to reduce scrap iron into readily marketable pieces in the farm scrap collection drive in Barton County. Acc...
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Welding International Scout Body

Date: 1961
Description: Fort Wayne employees welding the body of an International Scout. Assembly line image from International Harvester's Fort Wayne plant, subject of a 1961 art...

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