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Milwaukee Works Employee Tests Diesel Crankcases

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker reams diesel crankcases in a testing line at Milwaukee Works.
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Milwaukee Works Employee Inspects Diesel Engine

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker tears apart a diesel engine for inspection after run at Milwaukee Works. According to the original caption, each engine received this inspec...
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Milwaukee Works Employee Reams Crankcases

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker reams Diesel engine crankcases at Milwaukee Works.
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Milwaukee Works Foundry

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Two factory workers pour molten metal into diesel engine crankcase forms at the Milwaukee Works foundry. Photograph taken by Don Jones.
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Testing Diesel Pump with Pressure

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker tests a diesel engine pump under 6000 pounds of pressure at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don Jones.
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Testing Diesel Engine Cylinder Hardness

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: Factory worker tests the file-hardness of a diesel engine cylinder at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don Jones.
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Electrical Recording of Diesel Engine Horsepower

Date: 11 04 1937
Description: A factory worker electrically records the horsepower of Diesel engines at Milwaukee Works. According to the original caption, each engine was tested in thi...
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Engine and Feed Grinder

Date: 05 22 1923
Description: A man pours a bag of feed into a feed grinder powered by a 6 h.p. engine.
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Valve Photography

Date: 12 20 1943
Description: R.G. Hill taking photographs in the engine testing laboratory. The original caption reads: "R.G. Hill, chief photographer at Gas Power Engineering Departme...
Photograph

Service Managers Inspecting an Engine

Date: 11 25 1935
Description: Five men gather around an engine in a factory (most likely International Harvester's Milwaukee Works). Original caption reads: "Branch service managers vie...
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Service Managers Watching a Machine Test

Date: 11 25 1935
Description: Branch service managers watch a test at a factory (most likely International Harvester's Milwaukee Works). Caption on photograph reads: "Branch service man...
Photograph

Branch Service Managers Inspect Crawler Tractor Assembly

Date: 11 1935
Description: Branch service managers inspect TracTracTor (crawler tractor) assembly at Tractor Works (factory). Original caption reads: "Tractor Works, Branch service m...
Photograph

Service Managers in a Tractor Plant

Date: 10 1935
Description: Southwest District branch service managers touring the factory floor at Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "Milwaukee Works, Some of the group of Ser...
Photograph

Cream Separator

Date: 11 1919
Description: Mrs. Irving Bielby operating a cream separator run by a gasoline engine at Babcock farm.
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Gas-Powered Water Pump

Date: 10 1923
Description: A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experime...
Book or Pamphlet

Huber Traction Engine

Date: 1920
Description: Front cover of a pamphlet advertising the Huber traction engine featuring an illustration of farmers using equipment in a field and text which reads: "How ...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Advertisement

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i...
Photograph

Repair Shop at Dealership

Date: 05 04 1928
Description: Two men are working on an engine and a tractor in a repair shop at a dealership. A row of windows are in the background.
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V8 Engine Assembly

Date: 1960
Description: Men are working on a factory floor. Caption reads: "V8 Engine Assembly — Indianapolis Motor Truck Engine Works."
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Assembly of Motor Truck Transmissions

Date: 1960
Description: Men are working indoors on a factory floor.

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