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J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company

Date: 09 21 1922
Description: Elevated view of the J.J. Emmerich Cranberry Company showing the bog in the background with the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian cranberry pickers' camp at the ...
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Winter Mail Delivery

Date: 02 15 1987
Description: A woman mail carrier pushes her cart with a full mailbag along a sidewalk edged by snowy lawns.
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Logging Crew and Railroad

Date: 1888
Description: A logging crew of the Upham Lumber Company, together with the company's locomotive, "Old Vanderbilt," formerly the Wisconsin Central Railroad's Engine No #...
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Vesper Wood Company

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Description: Vesper Wood Manufacturing Company. Caption reads: "Vesper, Wis."
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Cranberry Harvester

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Description: Cranberry harvesting machine on the property of the Wisconsin Cranberry Sales Company in Wisconsin Rapids.
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Harvesting Cranberries

Date: 09 1934
Description: Harvesting cranberries at the Cranberry Lake Lake Development Company in Wood County.
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Consolidated Paper Glider Floor

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: CG-4A glider floor manufactured by Consolidated Water Power and Paper Company, as part of a World War II military contract. Executive Jim Plzak is examinin...
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Consolidated Paper Factory

Date: 1944
Description: Interior view of the Consolidated Paper Company factory showing the large treater used in the manufacture of glider parts during World War II. Ralph Turne...
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Consolidated Paper Machinery

Date: 03 03 1944
Description: A Consolidated Paper Company employee watches the paper impregnation process whereby the company made a plastic laminate product used in the manufacture of...
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Consolidated Paper Company War Work

Date: 03 1944
Description: Two employees of the Consolidated Paper Company check the quality of the laminate product emerging from the dry end of the treater. The laminate was manuf...
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Gliders for the War

Date: 02 03 1944
Description: Employees of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division constructing the floors of lightweight gliders to be used by the military.
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Consolidated Paper War Work

Date: 02 06 1943
Description: Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company preparing for a strength and deflection test of a plastic product being developed by the co...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: An employee of the Consolidated Paper Company watches what is apparently a test of a part being manufactured by the company as part of its contract to deve...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: Carl Husome, an employee of the Consolidated Paper Company in a photograph probably taken to demonstrate progress on the development of a prototype for a m...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: Two employees of the Consolidated Paper Company (Del Rowland and Carl Husome), in a photograph probably taken to demonstrate progress on the development of...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: An unidentified employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company prepares for a strength test of a product being developed by the compan...
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Consolidated Paper Company

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Interior view of the factory of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company during World War II.
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 02 04 1944
Description: Two employees, Bob Schutz and Louis Timmerman, watch as rolls of stock are cut five sheets at a time. This procedure was necessary to insure uniformity of...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Strength test being performed by an employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company. The company developed a number of laminated plast...
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War Worker

Date: 04 04 1944
Description: Henry Schmidt, an employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company, during World War II.

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