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| Description: | French Battery and Carbon Company, later known as Rayovac. The old circle belt in the Madison plant. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Male and female office workers inside International Harvester's Osborne Twine Mill. The Osborne Works was located at 5 Pulaski Street, and was owned and op... |
| Date: | 1935 |
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| Description: | A woman factory worker sorting parts at Globe Union Manufacturing Company, maker of batteries, radio apparatus, and spark plugs. |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Three women in the home economics model kitchen at International Harvester's Evansville Works. Zelma Purchase is wrapping a food product at the table. Lori... |
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| Description: | Workers hand wind filament on transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of el... |
| 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: | 12 21 1944 |
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| Description: | Three service wives working at Ray-O-Vac. Left to right: Mrs. Emma Perry, Mrs. Frances Sturdy, and Mrs. Amanda Signer. |
| Date: | 01 11 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray being interviewed by Mrs. R.W. Halvorsen at the RMR plant. The RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac was located in th... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray and Mrs. Mildred Lewis on the production line at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 block o... |
| Date: | 01 10 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray in the storage room inspecting some of the more than 300,000 batteries made in one day at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ... |
| Date: | 04 05 1945 |
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| Description: | RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) factory floor showing workers making batteries. |
| Date: | 04 04 1945 |
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| Description: | People signing up to work at RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac), a battery manufacturer. |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker operating a broaching machine at International Harvester's 20 millimeter gun plant. Caption on photograph reads: "This American hydra... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers inspect parts at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "Many small parts for the gun a... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker operates a surface grinder at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "This woman employe... |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Men and women at drafting tables at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. The engine... |
| Date: | 03 1974 |
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| Description: | A group of male and female workers are posing around a sign and a crankcase sitting on the factory floor. The sign reads "Melrose Park Plant / March, 1974 ... |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | Workers stand behind a food service counter at the Tractor Works (factory) cafeteria. The counter is loaded with dishes, cups and saucers. One woman is mov... |
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