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Deering Works

Date: 1918
Description: Exterior view of the Fullerton Avenue side of the Deering Works (factory) building. Two cars are parked just inside the factory gate. Before 1902, the buil...
Photograph

International F-31 Striplins Transfer Truck

Date: 1919
Description: International model "F" "31" truck operated by Striplins Transfer of Litchfield. A male driver is in the truck which is parked on a city street between a ...
Photograph

Support for Allis-Chalmers Strike

Date: 11 25 1946
Description: Demonstration march down city street in support of Allis-Chalmers, local 248, strike. Most of the marchers are women. Truck in front with megaphone reads "...
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Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing. Strikers are standing on the cobblestone street and sidewalk holding signs that read "Don'...
Photograph

Plankinton Meat Packing Strike

Date: 04 20 1948
Description: Striking workers and police outside of Plankinton Meat Packing.
Print

Buckstaff-Edwards Co. Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the Buckstaff-Edwards Company of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, manufacturers of coffins and caskets and wholesale dealers in caskets and undertaking supp...
Print

J.I. Case Plow Works Memohead

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Description: Memohead of the J.I. Case Plow Works of Racine, Wisconsin, with an elevated view of the company plant and a smaller scene set on a scroll of a man driving ...
Photograph

West Henni Street

Date: 07 1991
Description: "The road is being repaired on West Henni Street."
Photograph

African American Man with Horse-Drawn Cart

Date: 10 01 1912
Description: An African American man dressed in work clothes, a long apron, and a hat is standing next to a cart drawn by two horses. The cart is loaded with goods and ...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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Description: Some towering hand-made genius had fighting words to sell
Photograph

Winter View of the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view across street in winter of the McCormick Works Club House. In front of the club house is a man standing on a loaded horse-drawn wagon parked ...
Photograph

Large Group of People in front of the International Harvester Co. Plant

Date: 1920
Description: View across street towards a large group of people gathered in front of the International Harvester Co. plant. Some of the people in the crowd are holding ...
Photograph

Large Group of People in front of the International Harvester Co. Plant

Date: 1920
Description: View across street towards a large group of people gathered in front of the International Harvester Co. plant. There are two or three large U.S. flags on d...
Photograph

Large Group of People in front of the International Harvester Co. Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view across street towards a large group of people gathered in front of the International Harvester Co. plant. Near the entrance is a large U.S. f...
Photograph

Large Group of People in front of the International Harvester Co. Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view across street towards a large group of people gathered in front of the International Harvester Co. plant. Near the entrance is a large U.S. f...
Photograph

Ferguson Coal Company Coal Truck

Date: 08 25 1925
Description: View across street toward a man sitting in a Ferguson Coal Company delivery truck. A sign on the brick building in the background reads: "Wm Deering & __ O...
Photograph

Speed Queen Building

Date: 07 1936
Description: View across street towards automobiles parked in front of a two-story brick office building with a long, one story factory wing. There is a water tower beh...
Postcard

General Office, Kohler Co.

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Description: View of the administrative building at the Kohler Plant. Caption reads: "General Office, Kohler Co., Kohler, Wis."
Photograph

Construction of Gisholt Building

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Description: View of construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant, facing East Washington Avenue. Two workers, one obscured by a beam, are unl...
Photograph

Back View of Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: View of the back side of the Madison plant from across a dirt road, which is lined with a plank sidewalk and telephone poles, towards several plant buildin...

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