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Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
Poster

Deering Farm Machinery Calendar

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising calendar for Deering tractors and farm implements featuring an oval color illustration of a European farmhouse with thatched roof, farm laborer...
Print

Oliver Chilled Plow Works Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Lithographed advertising card for the Oliver Chilled Plow Works commemorating the new year, 1884. The card features two color illustrations within a gold f...
Photograph

Brennan Paving Company Truck

Date: 06 29 1937
Description: A man driving an International dump truck loaded with dirt is parked in front of a park area in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada. The sign on the door of the...
Photograph

K.A.T. Employee Bus

Date: 02 09 1937
Description: A driver exits an International bus marked: "K.A.T. Employees" in a dirt parking lot. Other passengers sit inside the vehicle, and International's Springfi...
Photograph

International Harvester Workers on Strike

Date: 01 30 1941
Description: Elevated view of striking International Harvester factory workers holding signs and an American flag as they stand near the company's Tractor Works.
Photograph

Cheese Factory

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Description: Horses and wagons carrying aluminum barrels are standing outside the cheese factory. Workers pause from work to pose. Each worker wears overalls and a hat.
Photograph

Processing Facility

Date: 1902
Description: Men standing around a brick processing facility that may be near a body of water. A burn-barrel is in the foreground.
Photograph

Widmer Cheese Factory Chimney

Date: 03 1979
Description: "Mason, Reuben Schuster, lays brick on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney."
Photograph

York Iron Works

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Description: Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace.
Photograph

York Iron Works

Date: 
Description: Elevated view over railroad tracks of York Iron Works. Probably the construction of the blast furnace.
Photograph

York Iron Works

Date: 
Description: York Iron Works, with a group of men posed standing in front of the construction of the blast furnace.
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 359-369

Date: 
Description: Everybody was wonderful

Stars kept rising, pink and gold
Trailing threads of breathless music
barely out of reach
Hand to hand around the n...
Historical Object

Wisconsin Thematic Panel 750-757

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

Kohler Strikers

Date: 07 26 1936
Description: Kohler strikers marching along a sidewalk. Handwritten on the photograph: "Kohler Strikers '2 years after' Memorial Picket Line, July 26th, 1936."
Photograph

Plant Under Construction

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Description: View from platform looking down towards men working on buildings under construction. Houses are on a hill in the distance.
Photograph

Construction Site with View of Neighborhood

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Description: Elevated view of men working on a construction site, with a view of the neighborhood beyond. Men are moving wheelbarrows up a wooden ramp in the foreground...
Photograph

Construction Site

Date: 09 25 1914
Description: View of buildings at construction site, with an older building on the left, and on the right a building under construction. Men are standing in the backgro...

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