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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery. |
| Date: | 11 30 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray-O-Vac building on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building and several cars. Snow is on the ground. The sign near the door in the center of ... |
| Date: | 11 28 1945 |
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| Description: | Ray-O-Vac buildings on the 2300 block of Winnebago Street. Office building, production plant, two houses: 2327 and 2331 Winnebago Street, and several cars.... |
| Date: | 11 09 1938 |
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| Description: | Crowd of workers viewing two new Ford cars in the Madison Kipp Corp. plant, 201-231 Waubesa Street. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | A Gisholt Machine Company factory worker, wearing protective glasses, is using a wheel to position a large cauldron for pouring molten metal into a mold to... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Two executives standing in a parking lot behind the Gisholt Machine Company. The man on the left is standing with his hands behind his back. The man on th... |
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| Description: | Sid standing and lighting up a cigar in the doorway of a room at work. Behind him is a table and chair, and outside of the window is a parked automobile. |
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| Description: | View of two workers pouring molten metal on the floor of the Gisholt plant. There are two massive chain hoists, suspended from a bridge crane, that are hol... |
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| Description: | View of construction of the skywalk across Baldwin Street at the Gisholt plant, facing East Washington Avenue. Two workers, one obscured by a beam, are unl... |
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| Description: | View of the back side of the Madison plant from across a dirt road, which is lined with a plank sidewalk and telephone poles, towards several plant buildin... |
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| Description: | View of a loading platform by the railroad track at the first machine works plant of the Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East Mifflin... |
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| Description: | Three men are handling packaged hams. They are transferring the hams from a conveyer belt and hanging them onto a vertical rack behind them. |
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| Description: | A man is operating the lever of a meat (lard) mixing machine to redirect contents into a wheeled container inside the Oscar Mayer plant. |
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| Description: | Men wearing overalls, jackets, hats, and gloves are pushing carts of wooden and cardboard crates which read: "Oscar Mayer, Approved, Fine Foods since 1883,... |
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| Description: | Employees are standing in a row at a long counter filling different types of packaged meat into shipping boxes. In the foreground on a cart are boxes and p... |
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