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Steam Locomotive Used at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery and used to provide...
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Steam Locomotive at Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 06 20 1933
Description: Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was ...
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Unloading Refrigerators

Date: 08 08 1928
Description: Men unloading Frigidaire refrigerators from truck.
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Durfee Brothers Roofing Company Burglary

Date: 10 30 1948
Description: John Ochalle, employee of the Durfee Brothers Roofing Company, who discovered evidence of a burglary at the company's place of business at 1804 South Park ...
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Curb Painting

Date: 06 06 1965
Description: A city worker painting a curb yellow in a no parking zone. The location is West Dayton Street, looking towards North Randall Avenue. Fire Station #4 is in ...
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Interior View of Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: Interior view of Gisholt Machine Company. A man is standing on metal parts and pouring, what is probably molten metal, from a vat into a mold or industrial...
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Gisholt Machine Company Employee Pouring Molten Metal

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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...
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Gisholt Machine Company Employees Working with Molten Metal

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Description: Two employees of Gisholt Machine Company are pouring molten metal from large cauldrons into molds as another worker looks on. A company supervisor is stand...
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Workers Pouring Molten Metal at Gisholt Machine Company

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Description: Workers pouring liquid metal from large cauldrons at the Gisholt Machine Company foundry.
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Chef at Capital Hotel

Date: 12 14 1953
Description: A chef working in a large kitchen. He is wearing a white chef's coat, tall hat and crisply pressed apron, and is standing next to an industrial-sized stove...
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Activities of Firemen at the Central Fire Station

Date: 01 20 1954
Description: Harold Hansen (left) and Fred Manthe making chili for the firemen's dinner. Hansen is standing next to the stove stirring a deep pot with one hand, and is ...
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Oscar Mayer Meat Scientist

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Description: A male employee wearing a lab coat and hat is standing in front of an open oven, checking the temperature of a meatloaf with a thermometer.
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Oscar Mayer Ice Making

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Description: Two men dressed in lab coats and hats are holding pick axes to move ice bricks out from metal containers in the foreground. A line of ice bricks are behind...
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Oscar Mayer Ice Cooler Room

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Description: Four men are in a large room with a high ceiling. Three of the man are on the floor working to move ice bricks towards the stack of ice in the background. ...
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Photo Enactors from the Dane County Association for Mental Health

Date: 04 16 1957
Description: Staged work environment for employees in an industrial setting. In the foreground a man wearing work coveralls is standing at a lathe on a plant floor. Beh...
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City Leaf Vacuum Cleaner

Date: 10 30 1958
Description: Street gutter full of leaves about to be vacuumed up by three city workers operating a large two wheeled trailer-sized vacuum cleaner with a leaf hose nozz...

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