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| Date: | 05 14 1937 |
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| Description: | Three men pressing garments at Savidusky's Cleaners plant, 827 E. Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 09 18 1929 |
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| Description: | Three women working at Floralo Incense Company, located at 1212 Regent Street. The are tamping and boxing incense. |
| Date: | 10 19 1941 |
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| Description: | Workers use an industrial tractor to move factory machinery into place at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A crew of men crushing rock for Senator James H. Stout's improved highway. |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Man operating a gas-powered concrete tamper/breaker that is being used to consolidate concrete over ditches after laying water or sewage main pipes. There ... |
| Date: | 04 15 1916 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger concrete breaker on a residential street with a operator in the cab. Men are working in the street, and trees and power lines are l... |
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| Description: | Engraving of a farm with an Eclipse windmill. There is a cutaway view of the building beneath showing a man inside working at a saw. Another man is working... |
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| Description: | A man in a hat and overalls leans over a trench or ditch digger, looking down into the excavated area. Pipes, an automobile, and a building are in the back... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men working at tables in the metal finishing room of the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Stacks of parts are piled on the floor, and a hat and coat are han... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working in the metal finishing room of the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Metal parts are stacked on the floor and the room is suppor... |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the machine shop at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| 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. |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S... |
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| Description: | A man stands near an ice harvesting machine on a lake. A label on the machine reads: "Wisconsin." There is open water behind him, and in the far background... |
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| Description: | Interior view of Gisholt Machine Company. Two men are standing next to large machinery, marked with the name "GRAY." |
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| Description: | View of a battery of turret lathes in the "Gisholt Department" in a factory of the Peerless Auto Motor Car Company taken while machinery is in operation. T... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a room full of turret lathes in the "Gisholt Department" in a factory of the Peerless Auto Motor Car Company taken while the machinery is ... |
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