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| Description: | French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant. |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Employees working on stationary engines at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902. |
| Date: | 1908 |
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| Description: | Men working on stationary engines at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Some of the engines are marked with the letters "FAM" which may refer to th... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two men working on engine components on an assembly line at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com... |
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| Description: | The general press room is where sheet metal is made into housing for transformers, and fibre and bakelite insulators are formed at Thordarson Electical Man... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin... |
| 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: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker reams diesel crankcases in a testing line at Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker tears apart a diesel engine for inspection after run at Milwaukee Works. According to the original caption, each engine received this inspec... |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker reams Diesel engine crankcases at Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers pour molten metal into diesel engine crankcase forms at the Milwaukee Works foundry. Photograph taken by Don Jones. |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker tests a diesel engine pump under 6000 pounds of pressure at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don Jones. |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory worker tests the file-hardness of a diesel engine cylinder at Milwaukee Works. Photograph taken by Don Jones. |
| Date: | 11 04 1937 |
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| Description: | A factory worker electrically records the horsepower of Diesel engines at Milwaukee Works. According to the original caption, each engine was tested in thi... |
| Date: | 12 20 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working at machines in an International Harvester engineering shop. The original caption reads: "Scene from International Harvester Co... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | A factory worker at West Pullman Works wears long gloves while testing condensing units for leaks. |
| Date: | 06 24 1944 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 08 10 1944 |
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| 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, ... |
| Date: | 04 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids contemplates a die for fabricating tapered paper-based plastic laminat... |
| Date: | 11 1935 |
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| Description: | Branch service managers inspect TracTracTor (crawler tractor) assembly at Tractor Works (factory). Original caption reads: "Tractor Works, Branch service m... |
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