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| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman fashions a miniature hand-made metallic tree, while tables full of others await packing and shipment for the Christmas holidays. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Holding a dropper over racks of test tubes, a man in a lab coat aims to place drops in the receptacles. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Factory worker inspecting the barrel of an M-1 rifle produced at International Harvester's Evansville Works for the U.S. military. |
| Date: | 12 15 1945 |
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| Description: | "Ole" Odegaard, tire repairman at Edwards Tire Company, 506 University Avenue, re-treading tires. |
| Date: | 08 05 1947 |
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| Description: | Jonas Staley, 1510 Jenifer Street, a 73-year-old man who enjoyed working outdoors in hot weather. He is shown putting in a sewer at 4226 Beverly Road. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A woman and two men work with wooden crates at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers tend to part of a high speed gun carriage at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers producing artillery shells at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. Original caption reads: "75-Millimeter Shell Manufacture. The firs... |
| Date: | 06 1953 |
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| Description: | Men and women employed by Malleable Iron Range Co. making artillery shells to be used in the Korean War. |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | National Youth Administration workers cutting stone in the quarry near the Grignon House. A sign behind the group of boys says: USA Work Program." |
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| Description: | A man wearing safety goggles and an apron while working in a machine shop. He may be part of a safety program. |
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| Description: | Several men dip pitchers and pails to apply metal at Vollrath Company. |
| Date: | 03 06 1956 |
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| Description: | Harold W. Rucks, of Edgerton sits in a wheel chair while working at a table jig saw. Rucks, who had been severely crippled for 17 years with rheumatiod art... |
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| Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Ingeborg Sidwell wearing a patterned scarf, tied under her chin, a dark coat and eyeglasses. In 1943, she was working at the Wis... |
| Date: | 1963 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of the stockroom (?) of the Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Co. |
| Date: | 05 01 1964 |
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| Description: | Cliff Adkison, grounds keeper at Breese Stevens field for 26 years. He was honored by the school board for his varied services. |
| Date: | 07 1945 |
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| Description: | View from side of women sitting in a row working on an assembly line in a perfume factory. |
| Date: | 05 27 1965 |
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| Description: | The seminarians at Holy Name Seminary learn that the dignity of manual labor is an important lesson for aspirants to the priesthood. Here Tom Colt, Madison... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a milling machine inside the Gisholt Machine Company. A male employee on the left is working with the machine. |
| Date: | 04 2000 |
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| Description: | Relocation of Sid Boyum's sculpture, "Smiling Mushroom," to the public green space on the bike path at Atwood Avenue and Dunning Street. Lou Host-Jablonski... |
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