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Interior of Battery Factory

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Description: French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant.
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Police Firing on Crowd Near McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 05 03 1886
Description: Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact...
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1,000,000 Volt Coil

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Description: Workers construct a 1,000,000 volt coil at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company.
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: An employee of the Consolidated Paper Company watches what is apparently a test of a part being manufactured by the company as part of its contract to deve...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 1943
Description: An unidentified employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company prepares for a strength test of a product being developed by the compan...
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Consolidated War Work

Date: 06 24 1944
Description: Strength test being performed by an employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company. The company developed a number of laminated plast...
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War Work

Date: 10 12 1943
Description: Earl Otto, an executive of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper, takes a turn during the machine gun test of the laminate plastic panels being devel...
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Plastics Laboratory

Date: 08 10 1944
Description: Laboratory of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids. The man on the left has been identified as chemist Jay Somers, ...
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Laminate Plastic Development

Date: 04 22 1944
Description: Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids contemplates a die for fabricating tapered paper-based plastic laminat...
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Allis-Chalmers Gates Gyratory Breaker

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Description: View inside the Allis-Chalmers plant of #27 double discharge Gates Gyratory Breaker during erection. It was built for the Utah Copper Company. There is a m...
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P&H Advertising Room

Date: 08 15 1913
Description: Men at desks in the Pawling & Harnischfeger advertising department. Large windows on left look out towards another building, and men on equipment can be se...
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Identifying Union Activists

Date: 1948
Description: James Newman, public relations director of the Rath packing company, takes photographs of striking workers from a window of the company's factory.
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Stencil List Department

Date: 1928
Description: The stencil list department of The W.S. Ponton Company.
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Worker at Airplane Assembly Plant

Date: 01 24 1930
Description: View towards a factory man working at a plant that assembled Comet engines for aircraft. The man is standing at a desk fitted with instruments in a narrow ...
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Workers at Airplane Assembly Plant

Date: 01 24 1930
Description: View of two factory men at work desks at a plant that assembled Comet aircraft engines. They are sitting on wooden stools between Korn scales in a narrow b...
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Factory of Comet Aircraft Engines

Date: 11 07 1929
Description: Interior of a factory floor, with several large machines for manufacturing aircraft engines under the skylights. A Gisholt lathe is prominently pictured se...
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Factory of Comet Aircraft Engines

Date: 11 07 1929
Description: Interior view of a factory floor. Machinery by Whitcomb Manufacturing Company is in the right foreground, and a Comet 7-cylinder aircraft engine is in the ...
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Factory of Comet Aircraft Engines

Date: 11 1929
Description: Interior of a factory floor, with several large machines for manufacturing aircraft engines, including Landis, Whitcomb Manufacturing Company and Gisholt. ...

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