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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi... |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Isabel Olson, an employee of the United Rubber Company in Eau Claire, examining fabric for a pocket in a heavy service tire. Although most women who joine... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assembling pneumatic (rubber) truck tires at International Harvester's Springfield Works. There is a pile of rubber tires and metal rims in... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Three men use three different pieces of machinery in various stages of the tire-making process at the Boone Tire Factory. Stacks of tires are piled around ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. A man is using a machine to wrap canvas around a rubber tire. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a room in the Boone Tire Factory. Two men are removing a tire from a mold, one of many running along a conveyor belt inside the Boone Tire... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Four men work inside the Boone Tire Factory. |
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| Description: | A group of women work at machines making tires. Men are in the background on the right working on other machines. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working with long strips of rubber and fabric while making tires. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of stacks of tires siting in the Uniroyal factory. Men work at machinery building tires. |
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| Description: | Workroom in the Uniroyal factory where men and women are building tires. |
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| Description: | Men sit on chairs while working on tire molds at Uniroyal. |
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| Description: | Women assemble tires at the Uniroyal plant. Men are also working in the background. |
| Date: | 08 25 1945 |
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| Description: | Men working in the tool room, located in the northeast corner of Building #15. |
| Date: | 03 14 1947 |
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| Description: | Men working in the passenger curing unit "V" on the first floor of Building #8. |
| Date: | 01 12 1949 |
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| Description: | Theresa Meyer and Alice Lee cutting and splicing stock in the bead department. |
| 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 19 1944 |
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| Description: | A flipper is applied to a bead by Lloyd Barnes. |
| 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... |
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