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| Description: | French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant. |
| Date: | 10 05 1936 |
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| Description: | Interior view of men working inside Rushour Manufacturing Company at 2070 Helena Street. |
| Date: | 10 17 1939 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of female workers in the casing department of Oscar Mayer & Company, located at 910 Mayer Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 05 1936 |
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| Description: | Interior of the Rushour Manufacturing Company Inc., 2070 Helena Street. Men are working on the vending machine assembly line. |
| Date: | 04 22 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior Feldman Paper Box Company, 21-33 North Charter Street, with women at the machines. |
| Date: | 04 22 1931 |
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| Description: | Interior of Feldman Paper Box Company printing department, 21-33 N. Charter Street, with three men at the machines. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A woman operates a lathe at the Gisholt plant on East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Two men processing hemp in a DeForest plant for use as cord and rope during World War II. The men are feeding hemp into a rolling machine which crushes the... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Four women operating sausage-making equipment at the Oscar Mayer Company during World War II. |
| Date: | 05 02 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert M. Carnes, on the right, expediter at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), 1400 East Washington Avenue, with foreman Jack Young. |
| Date: | 08 20 1947 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 04 05 1949 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 02 23 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 30 1954 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 05 28 1956 |
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| Description: | Employment of older adults is one of the topics of discussion at the First Governor's Conference on an Aging Population. 76 year old James Jordan works on ... |
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| Description: | Interior view of Gisholt Machine Company. Two men are standing next to large machinery, marked with the name "GRAY." |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a milling machine inside the Gisholt Machine Company. A male employee on the left is working with the machine. |
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| Description: | Two men in button-down shirts and neckties are standing in front of a large metal tooling machine in a corner of the Gisholt Machine Company factory. Large... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of two Gisholt workers operating machinery on the factory floor. They are wearing t-shirts and jeans or khaki work pants; both men have rags ... |
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| Description: | A man is welding on a large machine inside the Gisholt factory. On the right a crane is holding another section of the machine. |
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