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| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | Three workers pouring molten metal into small containers at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Com... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men working with hot metal in what appears to be a forge at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
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| Description: | Three male employees appear to be preparing for a casting in sand. One man holds a hose in his hand while another has a shovel and the other a long metal p... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man wearing protective gloves is shoveling metal pieces into a radiant tube clean hardening furnace at West Pullman Works. |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company transfer bridge with a magnetic hoist at the Enterprise Foundry Company. There's a sign on the cab that re... |
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| Description: | A worker operates a moulding [sic] machine. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 2 One of the types of moulding machines in monarch foundries where machine m... |
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| Description: | Four workers gather around the malleable iron furnace and fill their ladles. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 5 Moulders filling their ladles at the mall... |
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| Description: | View of the furnace at Malleable Iron Range Company. Caption on stereograph reads, "No. 4 One side of the Malleable Iron furnace. Note the provision for sk... |
| 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: | View across foundry floor of factory workers in a large room with high ceilings, vent hoods and skylights at McCormick Works. Two men in the middle ground ... |
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| Description: | A boy (teenager?) works in a sheet metal factory. |
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| Description: | Several men dip pitchers and pails to apply metal at Vollrath Company. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pouring hot metal into molds, most likely at the McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A factory worker, facing away from the camera, is standing on a wooden bench and is using a tool to reach into a furnace at the McCormick Reaper Works. Mol... |
| Date: | 1960 |
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| Description: | Joe Weyenberg and two other men work with molten metal at the Roloff Manufacturing 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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| 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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| 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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| Description: | Workers pouring liquid metal from large cauldrons at the Gisholt Machine Company foundry. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in a forging area at McCormick Works. He is holding a long tub with his right hand, and holding another tool with his left hand. |
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