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Allis-Chalmers Company

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Description: Plate Steel Spiral Casing for 70,000 horse-power Niagara Falls hydraulic turbine unit at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company erecting shop. The castin...
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Tire Factory Interior

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi...
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Manufacturing Automobile Frames

Date: 1954
Description: Workers at the A.O. Smith Corporation in Milwaukee assembling frames for Cadillac automobiles. In 1902 Arthur O. Smith, son of the company's founder, produ...
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Chassis Assembly

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Description: General Motors chassis assembly. Men are working among the machinery.
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Springfield Works Factory Scene

Date: 1930
Description: Men operating large machines at International Harvester's Springfield Works. The factory produced trucks.
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Springfield Works Truck Assembly Line

Date: 1935
Description: Workers spray painting a truck chassis on the assembly line at International Harvester's Springfield Works (factory).
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Nash Motors Assembly Line

Date: 1935
Description: A nearly-completed automobile on the assembly line at Nash Motors in Kenosha.
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Truck Assembly Line at International Harvester's Chatham Works

Date: 1930
Description: Workers on an assembly line installing front and rear axles on a truck frame at International Harvester's Chatham Works in Ontario, Canada. The factory was...
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Truck Assembly Line at International Harvester's Chatham Works

Date: 1930
Description: Workers on an assembly line building and adjusting truck chassis's and engines at International Harvester's Chatham Works, Ontario, Canada. The factory was...
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Engine Testing on Chatham Works Assembly Line

Date: 1930
Description: Assembly line worker inspecting a truck's engine compartment during testing operations at International Harvester's Chatham Works. The factory was owned by...
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International Truck Executives

Date: 1960
Description: Six International truck executives posed with model trucks on large globe at International Harvester's Fort Wayne Works.
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Warner and his Factory

Date: 1910
Description: Arthur Pratt Warner, Wisconsin's first aviator, in front of the office of the Warner Instrument Company in Beloit. Warner, who held the patent for an autom...
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Automotives Trades Council

Date: 12 18 1944
Description: Group portrait of Automotive Trades Council members at Turner Hall, 21 South Butler Street, with Ben and Alvina Bergor, entertainers, sitting in the front ...
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Workers Viewing Ford Cars

Date: 11 09 1938
Description: Crowd of workers viewing two new Ford cars in the Madison Kipp Corp. plant, 201-231 Waubesa Street.
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International L-line Truck

Date: 1949
Description: International L-line truck hauling produce. The L-line was promoted as "a truck for every hauling job" and featured an innovative "Comfo-Vision" cab with o...
Book or Pamphlet

International Sightliner Trucks

Date: 1957
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the 1957 line of International Cab-Over-Engine (COE) Sightliner model trucks. Brochure covers the four-wheel ser...
Book or Pamphlet

International Model KR-12 Trucks

Date: 1946
Description: Advertising brochure for International Model KR-12 trucks featuring a driver backing a truck up to a warehouse loading dock.
Book or Pamphlet

International CO-4000 Trucks

Date: 1965
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for International CO-4000 trucks with the "new top quality tilt-cab." Cover features color illustration of two deliv...
Book or Pamphlet

International Medium-Duty Trucks

Date: 1959
Description: Front cover of advertising brochure for the 1965 line of International B-series medium-duty trucks. Cover features color illustrations of various delivery ...
Book or Pamphlet

International Trucks with Metroette Dari-Van Bodies

Date: 1960
Description: Advertising brochure for International AB-series trucks with Metroette Dari-Van bodies. Models covered include the AB-120 and AB-140 drop-frame chassis mil...

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