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| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Woman working on a midget mill that cuts spiral grooves and moves at a rate of about 3500 r.p.m. The woman operating this machine was a former drill press ... |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | Workers on an assembly line at an International Harvester factory. The original caption reads: "assembling 57mm gun carriages." |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Man operating a drill press at Madison-Kipp Corporation, 201 Waubesa Street, producing war materiel during World War II. |
| Date: | 10 06 1944 |
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| Description: | Two men processing hemp in a DeForest plant for use as cord and rope during World War II. The men are feeding hemp into a rolling machine which crushes the... |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Consolidated Paper executive Jim Plzak (in the suit), watches as workers pull laminate from the Number #1 press at the Consolidated Paper Company. The lam... |
| Date: | 02 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Consolidated Paper Company Plastics Division constructing the floors of lightweight gliders to be used by the military. |
| Date: | 06 24 1944 |
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| Description: | Strength test being performed by an employee of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company. The company developed a number of laminated plast... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Employee of the Consolidated Paper Company, probably its Plastics Division during World War II. |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Factory of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company, showing several of the early laminate presses used for its World War II military production... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Paper Company demonstrating the use of two pieces of equipment used in cutting the paper-based laminate ... |
| Date: | 06 14 1944 |
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| Description: | Employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company demonstrating routers, drill presses, and other equipment used in the fabrication of t... |
| Date: | 04 22 1944 |
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| Description: | Three employees of the Plastics Division of the Consolidated Paper Company pose with two sheets of the paper-based plastic laminate that the company manufa... |
| Date: | 03 03 1944 |
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| Description: | Ken Nelson, an employee of the Plastics Division of Consolidated Papers Company of Wisconsin Rapids, monitors the performance of the #1 Treater. The machi... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker operating a broaching machine at International Harvester's 20 millimeter gun plant. Caption on photograph reads: "This American hydra... |
| Date: | 05 25 1942 |
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| Description: | Female factory worker operates a surface grinder at International Harvester's 20 (twenty) millimeter gun plant. Original caption reads: "This woman employe... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker operates a grinding machine. Original caption reads: "This woman employee on torpedo production operates a grinding machine. The pa... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Factory workers machining torpedo parts at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "This section of the torpedo plant houses a line of ... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A line of female factory workers operate milling machines at an International Harvester plant responsible for manufacturing aircraft torpedo parts. Origina... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A woman operating a grinding machine at an International Harvester factory responsible for manufacturing aircraft torpedo parts. Original caption reads: "T... |
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