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Automobile Crankshaft Machine at Gisholt Machine Company

Date: 08 20 1947
Description: Display of a 50-ton machine, developed by the Gisholt Machine Company, that will help speed up production of automobile crankshafts. W.A. Smlja, on the lef...
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Destruction of Illegal Slot Machines

Date: 02 19 1949
Description: Madison Police Inspector Philip H. Oakey is shown demolishing three "one-armed bandits." They had been stored in the vault of police headquarters since the...
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Madison Newspapers, Inc.

Date: 08 06 1949
Description: Three men move a Capital Times linotype machine into the new addition to the Wisconsin State Journal building, 115 South Carroll Street. The combined struc...
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Lawn Mower Sharpening

Date: 05 27 1953
Description: Victor Kelley adjusts his home-made lawnmower sharpener to sharpen a reel-type lawn mower for a neighbor.
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Dane County Homecrafters

Date: 03 06 1956
Description: Harold W. Rucks, of Edgerton sits in a wheel chair while working at a table jig saw. Rucks, who had been severely crippled for 17 years with rheumatiod art...

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