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Filter: Subject of Machinery industry
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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | View of main street in Lake Mills. On the left of the image are the Fargo and Ostrander store, Farmer's Cash Store and Drugs, and A.J. Foster Harness Shop.... |
| Date: | 1874 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for Calvin Marshall's Patent Rut Leveler and Snow-Plow or Road Breaker. |
| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | It was in this shop that Christopher Sholes, inventor of the typewriter, did much of his work on various inventions. This photograph may be as early as th... |
| Images of a Milwaukee Manufacturing Powerhouse |
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| Read about one of Milwaukee's most successful manufacturing companies and view vintage photographs of the corporation. |
| Images of Pawling & Harnischfeger Electric Cranes |
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| Discover how Wisconsin-based company Pawling & Harnischfeger became one of the world's leading suppliers of manufacturing services. |
| Learn more about the entrepreneur and manufacturing innovator who established, Allis Company, Milwaukee's largest industrial employer in the late 1880s. |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | A detail of a Sanborn map showing the lake Mendota shore area, including Madison Manufacturing Company. |
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