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Making Wheel Hubs at Weber Works

Date: 1919
Description: Factory worker manufacturing wagon wheel hubs at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works.
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Assembling Wheel at Weber Wagon Works

Date: 1919
Description: A factory worker with a wagon wheel at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works.
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"Romance of the Reaper" Film Still

Date: 1929
Description: Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ...
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"Jo Anderson" in Forge Shop Scene

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Special Machine Tool Shop

Date: 05 02 1942
Description: Factory workers rebuilding production machinery at International Harvester's "Special Machine Tool Shop." Original caption reads: "All old machine tools co...
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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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Group of Men Posed at Construction Site

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Description: Men posed standing at the construction site. They are probably laying the foundation of a building. A small wooden building in the background has a poster ...
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Manual Training

Date: 1938
Description: Eight men working on various woodworking projects in a classroom setting at Northern Wisconsin Center for the Developmentally Disabled.
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: A construction worker is chiseling a decorative element on a stone slab during the construction of the Eau Claire Public Library at Farwell Street and Gran...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: A worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure is chiseling details in the capital of a Corinthian column, at left, while behind him other men are work...
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Eau Claire Public Library Construction

Date: 1903
Description: View of a worker under a roofed, open-sided wood structure chiseling details in the capitals of what will be the top of the columns of the Eau Claire Publi...
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"Have That Automation Expert See Me"

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Description: Satirical ink-on-paper cartoon about corporate culture. It pictures a man holding a wrench in his hand is running on a treadmill attached to a machine with...
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Glassblower Norman Erway

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Description: Norman Erway working on a glass piece.
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Erway's Glassblowing Shop

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Description: Wilma and Norman Erway working in their glassblowing shop.
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Two Blacksmiths

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Description: Two men are standing in a blacksmith shop. One man is working at an anvil, the other stands with his hands on his hips. They are wearing leather aprons. Hu...

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