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Kleinstueber Machine Shop

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Description: Elevated view of Kleinstueber's Machine Shop, where Christopher Latham Sholes perfected his typewriter. The sign on the top of the building reads: "Brass F...
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Hawkins Mine Employee

Date: 1945
Description: Worker at a Hawkins Mine machine shop checking a measurement on a large casting under a trouble light. Hawkins Mine was a subsidiary of International Harve...
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McCormick Works Employees Threading Bolts

Date: 1900
Description: Workers, including some boys, threading bolts with heavy machinery in the Nut and Bolt Department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by t...
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Leslie Werner's Workshop

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Description: Interior view of Leslie Werner's workshop.
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Three Men Working in Service Shop

Date: 1944
Description: Three men working in a service shop of an International Harvester dealership. The men are standing at work tables with vises along a row of large windows.
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Machine Shop

Date: 1935
Description: A group of eight men pose in the back of a room against a row of windows in a machine shop. There are overhead belts that power a row of grind stones; meta...
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New York State Reformatory

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Description: A view of the trade school machine shop, with a man standing by each machine. Light streams in from the windows on both sides of the shop. Caption reads: "...
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Leslie Werner's Workshop

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Description: A view of the interior of Leslie Werner's workshop. A print of an image of Leslie Werner's Repair Shop full of bicycles is seen hanging on the wall on the ...
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Eight Men

Date: 1925
Description: Seven men, five in work clothes and two wearing suits pose on the steps in front of a wooden building, which is a machine shop, with large paned windows. O...
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Machine Shop at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of men working in machine shop. Belt-driven machinery is attached to the ceiling.
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Parts Storage in Repair Shop at Dealership

Date: 07 21 1925
Description: Repair shop at a dealership, with tools, parts and workstations. On the left are tall shelves with compartments and cubbies for storing parts, with stacks ...
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View of Lathes by American Tool Works

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Description: View of new turret lathe (center) manufactured by American Tool Works. It is standing on a factory floor flanked by other similar machines that are attache...
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Metal Spinning

Date: 1958
Description: Elevated view of a machine shop, where several people are standing and working at lathes. Around the shop are piles of machined parts, all of which are cyl...
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Prospecting Device

Date: 08 23 1960
Description: A man is standing and working in front of a machine. Caption reads: "PROSPECTING DEVICE - When John Yungers completes this special project, it will ...
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Machine Shop

Date: 1910
Description: Two men standing inside the machine shop at Montello Granite Co. The man on the left has a pipe in his mouth, and he is standing with his hand on the power...

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