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| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker assembles bull gear for a WD-40 tractor on an assembly line at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don Jones. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Veteran tire builder Bill McNair works on a pocket while constructing a heavy service truck tire. Two men wearing suits and hats stand in the left backgrou... |
| Date: | 10 21 1944 |
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| Description: | The first tire to be cured in the Gillette Tire Plant is removed from the mold. From left to right are F.B. Davis Jr. (Chairman of the United States Rubber... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | The first raw tire is placed in a mold at Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are R.L. Chatterson, Julius Berkley, A.B. Smith, M.O. Wick, J.W. Harry Ku... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Bagging the first tire made in the Gillette Tire Plant. From left to right are H.A. Berg, C.E. Stare, F.A. Cobb, F.J. Amundson, R.L. Chatterson, R.J. Hanse... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Seven men pose together as the first raw tire at the Gillette Tire Plant is put into a vacuum expander. |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Tire builder William (Bill) McNair puts a pocket on the first tire built at the Gillette Tire Plant. Civic representatives and employees of construction fi... |
| Date: | 10 19 1944 |
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| Description: | Tire builder Bill McNair stitches the side walls of a heavy service truck tire at the Gillette Tire Plant as men in suits watch. |
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| Description: | Men are standing at work stations on either side of an aisle in a large factory. There are large tracks or pulleys hanging from the ceiling. To the far rig... |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a foundry. Men are working near machinery with large, spinning wheels. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | "'Pop Sohner' drives one of the early Farmall tractors off the end of the assembly line back in the 1920's. He pioneered the production of this all-purpose... |
| Date: | 11 18 1912 |
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| Description: | Employee posing near manufacturing machine indoors in factory building. |
| Date: | 12 10 1920 |
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| Description: | Men wearing gloves are working on an assembly line. Parts are hanging from hooks above them. Other parts are stacked on the floor around them. A man wearin... |
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