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| Date: | 1949 |
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| Description: | Welding a milk truck at the Heil Corporation in Milwaukee. The Heil company was founded by German-born Julius P. Heil in 1901. As the Heil Rail Joint Wel... |
| Date: | 01 28 1948 |
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| Description: | Basketball game between the electrical shop and machine shop employees of the Heil Company in Milwaukee. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | Highway Commission dump truck photographed outside the Heil Company factory in Milwaukee. The truck was a Nash four-wheel drive model with the body built ... |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Heil Factory |
| Reference Number: | 232558 |
| Community: | Milwaukee |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Heil Company Office |
| Reference Number: | 232557 |
| Date: | 02 1943 |
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| Description: | Enola O'Connell, the only woman welder at the Heil Company during World War II, working on gasoline trailer tanks. A 32-year-old widow and the mother of o... |
| Date: | 04 16 1942 |
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| Description: | Governor Julius P. Heil sits at a desk surrounded by members of the Wisconsin Salvage Committee. |
| Community: | Wauwatosa |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | GOV. JULIUS & ELIZABETH HEIL HOUSE |
| Reference Number: | 76965 |
| Community: | Whitefish Bay |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | Carl Herzfeld House |
| Reference Number: | 9305 |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man from the Material Transit Company drives an International D-50 dump truck to unload what appears to be gravel or rocks. There are houses on a hill in... |
| Date: | 09 21 1937 |
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| Description: | A man stands in a lift attached to the bed of an International Model DR-60 truck owned by the Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company. Another man stands atop a rai... |
| Learn about the strong influence Wisconsin held on the national automobile industry in the early-mid 20th Century. |
| Community: | Wauwatosa |
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| County: | Milwaukee |
| Historic Name: | WISCONSIN EYE INSTITUTE |
| Reference Number: | 233337 |
| Automobiles in Wisconsin History |
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| Read about the evolution of the automotive industry and the drastic changes in manufacturing work, road infrastructure, the economy and American culture. |
| Learn about the development of professional sports teams in Wisconsin in the 19th and 20th centuries. |
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