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Engine Room, Arcade Manufacturing Co.
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Nine brick layers with supervisor in engine room. Caption on print reads: "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining at Arcade Manufacturing Co., Freeport, ILL., A.H. Hubbell Co., contractor."
September 26, 1933
McVicar, Angus Boyd, 1903-1964
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Engine Room, Arcade Manufacturing Co.
September 26, 1933
A.H. Hubbell Company workers build a "Complete Plibrico Jointless Firebrick Lining" brick wall around a boiler in the engine room at Arcade Manufacturing Co.
Steam Locomotive at Fauerbach Brewery
June 20, 1933
Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was used to provide steam power while the boil...
Steam Locomotive Used at Fauerbach Brewery
June 20, 1933
Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery and used to provide steam power while boiler was being repaired.
Men in Boiler Room at McCormick Works
July 23, 1912
Elevated view of two men working in a boiler room.
Manufacturing Area with Furnace
February 1910
Interior view of manufacturing area, with a furnace, at McCormick Works.
McCormick Works Manufacturing Area
1900
A large room with manufacturing equipment at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's factory ("reaper works") in Chicago. Men in work clothes are at some of the machines. Various small metal p...
