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| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Workers chipping imperfections from a rough casting. |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | Two workers pouring molten metal from a crane-held vat into a mold to make castings at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by ... |
| Date: | 01 18 1921 |
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| Description: | A man wearing overalls shaping a piece of metal at a workbench. A variety of hand tools are on the bench and the wall. The man is likely working at Interna... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Factory worker in a foundry at the Chattanooga Plow Works fills a cart with hot metal. A blurred image of another worker that passed through the scene whil... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Factory workers around a blast furnace in a foundry at the Chattanooga Plow Works. |
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| Description: | A boy (teenager?) works in a sheet metal factory. |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assemble grain binder parts at the McCormick Reaper Works. Metal machinery pieces are stacked at right and men work at tables to the left n... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Small casting section of the Grey Iron Foundry. Men are seen at work at various stages of the casting process wearing safety gear. The original magazine ca... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | A man is running a machine tool at a International Harvester factory in Australia. Machine name, "NATCO," is on a plate attached to the machinery. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men working in the metal finishing room in a factory. |
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| Description: | Two men are standing in a blacksmith shop. One man is working at an anvil, the other stands with his hands on his hips. They are wearing leather aprons. Hu... |
| Date: | 10 04 1910 |
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| Description: | A group of men are posing indoors at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 01 10 1911 |
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| Description: | Man forming metal inside a factory building. |
| Date: | 01 10 1912 |
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| Description: | Man forming metal inside a factory building. A man is standing on the right holding up a sledgehammer. |
| Date: | 10 20 1951 |
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| Description: | A man at the forge in Albert Smith's blacksmith shop. On the right is an Aetna No. 25 stove. Tools are hanging on the edge of the forge. |
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| Description: | A group of male employees are posing, leaning on tools, in foundry area. There is a skylight pouring light down into the room. |
| Date: | 03 07 1912 |
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| Description: | Men are standing in a large foundry area posing for a group portrait. There are high ceilings and a bank of windows along the back wall. |
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