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| Date: | 06 29 1946 |
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| Description: | An African American mechanic works on a car up on the rack for servicing at the gas station Meehan Motor Mart, 209 East Washington Avenue. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Construction crew building a double streetcar track around the Capitol Square on North Pinckney Street. The oversized awnings were common around the Square... |
| Date: | 09 07 1930 |
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| Description: | University of Wisconsin-Madison Mechanical Engineering Building at 1513 University Avenue under construction. Men are working on the steel framework. A mas... |
| Date: | 1872 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of a railroad crew on and around a handcar. A man and a young boy stand on the left near a track switch. In the background is a variety stor... |
| Date: | 03 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Interior of Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street, showing a sales counter with a large display of tools. Three clerks and one customer are standing n... |
| Date: | 03 03 1954 |
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| Description: | Interior of Richard Ela Company, 744 Williamson Street, showing a sales counter with a large display of tools and three clerks and one customer. Alternate ... |
| Date: | 04 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a customer at the sales counter of O.T. Kercheval's International Harvester dealership. Advertising posters and a calender are on the wall... |
| Date: | 05 18 1936 |
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| Description: | A Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew at work laying a stone terrace in Stevens Point. |
| Date: | 1941 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pack an International M-5-6 truck into a crate, possibly at International Harvester's Ft. Wayne Works. Original caption reads: "The trucks ... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of shop floor of an early Pawling and Harnischfeger 20-ton type "N" dial controlled cab-operated traveling crane. The crane is in machine sho... |
| 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 blacksmith in a working apron prepares a horse for shoeing. The bridled and saddled horse stands quietly next to another horse in the blacksmith's shop, ... |
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| Description: | A group portrait of workers in the American Plumbing & Heating Company. |
| Date: | 11 12 1948 |
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| Description: | View from across street of employees of Peters Tools, Local 100, standing on the sidewalk in front of the brick storefront with a number of cases at their ... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Cream City Sash & Door Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, "Manufacturers of Glazed Sash, Doors, Blinds, Mouldings & Interior Work," with fo... |
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| Description: | Men at a railroad station awaiting the arrival of a train in Fremont (later Pray). There is snow on the ground. Two men are standing on a hand-powered rail... |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | Two men "simonizing" an automobile. Photographed for the Simonize Company of Chicago. A refrigerator for Coca-Cola products is in the back of the garage. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Interior of the machine shop at the Lawson plant. There are drill presses and a belt-driven machinery system attached to the open rafters of the ceiling. S... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A cobbler repairing a boot in his shop. Many boots are lined up on the floor, and a bench of tools is behind him. A calendar from J.B. Yunker & Sons hangs ... |
| Date: | 07 25 1927 |
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| Description: | Men are working below street level in the foreground, standing on either side of a pipe. Another man is standing in the street behind an engine powering to... |
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