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Woman Working at Gisholt Plant

Date: 1944
Description: A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue.
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Woman Inspecting Hot Dogs

Date: 1944
Description: Female employee inspecting the quality of "Yellow Band" weiners at Oscar Mayer plant, 910 Mayer Avenue.
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Sausage Making

Date: 1944
Description: Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II.
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High School Students War Work

Date: 09 21 1944
Description: Eight high school students taking a few minutes off from their duties at Oscar Mayer and Company. From left: Kenneth Morrow, East High; Edward Wingen, East...
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Ray-O-Vac Workers

Date: 12 21 1944
Description: Three service wives working at Ray-O-Vac. Left to right: Mrs. Emma Perry, Mrs. Frances Sturdy, and Mrs. Amanda Signer.
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Maj. General Harry C. Ingles Inspecting Battery Production

Date: 01 17 1945
Description: Maj. Gen. Harry C. Ingles, Chief Signal Officer, United States Army, watching two women make batteries at Ray-O-Vac, or RMR (Ruben Mallory Ray-O-Vac).
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Lorraine Gray and Mrs. R.W. Halvorsen

Date: 01 11 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray being interviewed by Mrs. R.W. Halvorsen at the RMR plant. The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac was located in th...
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Plant Workers

Date: 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray and Mrs. Mildred Lewis on the production line at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 block o...
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Workers Inspecting Batteries

Date: 01 10 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray in the storage room inspecting some of the more than 300,000 batteries made in one day at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division...
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Employee Receiving Paycheck

Date: 1945
Description: Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ...
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Factory Floor

Date: 04 05 1945
Description: RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) factory floor showing workers making batteries.
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Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac Personnel

Date: 04 04 1945
Description: People signing up to work at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), a battery manufacturer.
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Robert M. Carnes and Jack Young

Date: 05 02 1945
Description: Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young.
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Two Ray-O-Vac Employees

Date: 08 07 1945
Description: Two Ray-O-Vac employees who have returned to work from serving in World War II.
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Automobile Crankshaft Machine at Gisholt Machine Company

Date: 08 20 1947
Description: Display of a 50-ton machine, developed by the Gisholt Machine Company, that will help speed up production of automobile crankshafts. W.A. Smlja, on the lef...
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Madison Community Chest Budget Committee

Date: 04 05 1949
Description: Portrait of Stanley Prideaux, worker at the Gisholt Machine Company, who is representing the CIO Dane County Industrial Union council on the 1949 Madison C...
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Bill Skaar

Date: 01 12 1954
Description: Portrait of William Skaar (known as Bill), the president of the Battery Workers' Federal Union at the Ray-O-Vac Company.
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Stan Prideaux

Date: 02 23 1954
Description: Indoor portrait of Stanley Prideaux, president of the Dane County CIO Council and president of Local 1404 United Steel Workers at Gisholt, the second large...
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Union Women

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Clara L. Anderson of McFarland operates a machine that puts labels on small batteries. She works at Ray-O-Vac and is a leader in Local 19587, Battery Worke...
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Union Women

Date: 08 30 1954
Description: Ruby Allman (right), secretary of Local 538 Amalgamated Meat Cutter and Butcher Workmen of North America at Oscar Mayer and Company, signs up Dorothy Braun...

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