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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys working with steel rods and belt-driven machinery to make bolts inside an annex to the blacksmith shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The fact... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 03 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Wells Printing Company's new plant interior. There are many pieces of letterpress equipment; type cabinets, a composing stone with set type on it and a pro... |
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| Description: | Male workers in a printing room at International Harvester's "Harvester Press." Some of the men appear to be printing advertising brochures for McCormick-D... |
| Date: | 09 28 1934 |
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| Description: | At Gabbei Motor Co. at 412 East Washington Avenue, one man works on the engine of a car while another machines a part in the company garage. |
| Date: | 03 06 1931 |
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| Description: | Nick Knechtges, watchmaker, at his workbench in his home shop. |
| Date: | 12 26 1930 |
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| Description: | A machinist working at the Charles H. Halperin machine shop, located at 209 S. Park Street. |
| Date: | 09 18 1929 |
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| Description: | Three women working at Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street. The are tamping and boxing incense. |
| Date: | 09 18 1929 |
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| Description: | Two men operate pulverizing and mixing machinery at the Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street. |
| Date: | 09 18 1929 |
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| Description: | A man operates baking and drying machinery at the Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street. |
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| Description: | The general press room is where sheet metal is made into housing for transformers, and fibre and bakelite insulators are formed at Thordarson Electical Man... |
| Date: | 06 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue, showing two men with the folding machine. |
| Date: | 07 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Bing Moy presses shirts at the steam press at Moy's Laundry, 112 N. Pinckney Street. |
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| Description: | Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Mechanics work on tractors and a truck in the service shop of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising banners hang from the ceiling and in the b... |
| Date: | 03 06 1956 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 06 1957 |
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| Description: | Robert Simpson (right), wearing a soap box derby helmet, receiving a bank book with a $25 savings account as a prize for 'best sport' due to a cut hand and... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A man uses the power take-off on the Cleveland All-Purpose crawler tractor. A belt is running off of the tractor into a barn. The caption reads: "The Cleve... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Front and back cover of a Deering Harvester Company brochure for twine. The cover reads: "The Original Spinners," and "The World's Greatest Spinners, Deeri... |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Page from Eclipse Wind Engine Co. [Beloit, Wisconsin] catalog featuring an illustration of an Eclipse Wind Engine installed in a barn. A cut-away view show... |
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