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Worker at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1920
Description: Worker assembling a tank at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902.
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Woman with Copper Tubing for Torpedo

Date: 05 25 1943
Description: A woman wearing a hat, protective gloves, and safety glasses uses a tool to bend copper tubing used in making aircraft torpedoes at an International Harves...
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Making Germination Boxes and Corn Racks

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers using tools to make wooden germination boxes and corn racks outdoors in front of what is possibly a school building.
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
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Man Working on Cub Cadet

Date: 06 1961
Description: A man attaches wheels to an International Cub Cadet lawn tractor at the company's Louisville Works factory. Other men are working in the background.
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Louisville Works Assembly Line

Date: 06 1961
Description: Elevated view of factory workers piecing together Cub Cadet parts along an assembly line at International Harvester's Louisville Works.
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Men Along Assembly Line

Date: 1961
Description: Elevated view of factory workers assembling pieces of the Cub Cadet lawn tractor while standing on either side of an assembly line at International Harvest...
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Assembling Cub Cadets

Date: 06 1961
Description: Factory workers at International Harvester's Louisville Works assemble Cub Cadet lawn tractors.
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Manufacturing a Cub Cadet

Date: 06 1961
Description: A factory worker pieces together what appears to be an instrument console for a Cub Cadet lawn tractor at International Harvester's Louisville Works.
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Men Assembling Cub Cadet

Date: 06 1961
Description: Factory workers stand on either side of a Cub Cadet lawn tractor at International Harvester's Louisville Works as they fit a piece over the machine's body.
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Woman Chopping Wood

Date: 10 04 1923
Description: A woman wearing a dress using an axe to split a log into firewood. A hand-operated washing machine is standing in the yard of a farmhouse in the background...
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Schierl's Blacksmith Shop

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Description: Leander Schierl, Wendelin Schierl, and a young boy inside Schierl's Blacksmith Shop. Leander bends over, shoeing the horse, while his father observes. On t...
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WPA at Work

Date: 1937
Description: National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program."
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Local Boilermakers and Helpers

Date: 1914
Description: Boilermakers and their helpers pose on and around a horse-drawn wagon that bears a sign that reads "Boiler-makers and Helpers," perhaps for a parade. Man o...
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Joe Dottl at The Ideal Body Company

Date: 1955
Description: Joe Dottl standing in the Ideal Body Company on Park Street.
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Truck Assembly Line at Springfield Works

Date: 1959
Description: Factory workers work on partially-assembled trucks as they move down an assembly line at International Harvester's Springfield Works.
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Trucks on Assembly Line

Date: 1959
Description: View from interior of truck of factory workers tending to partially-assembled trucks as they move down an assembly line at International Harvester's Spring...
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Truck Assembly Line

Date: 1959
Description: Overhead view of men working on trucks as they move down an assembly line at an International Harvester factory, possibly in Springfield, Ohio.
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International Metro Assembly Line

Date: 1959
Description: Men work on a partially-assembled Metro truck body raised on an assembly line inside the factory of the Metropolitan Body Company, an International Harvest...
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Working Conditions on Railroad Car Ferries

Date: 09 15 1946
Description: Workers shoveling coal into furnace. Part of a series on working conditions aboard Lake Michigan railroad car ferries. Ferry workers belonged to the Nation...

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