TitleMan moving boxes with lift truck Date1945-01-30 SubjectPaper products industry -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Man moving pallet of shipping boxes full of paper cups with lift truck. Client: Suth... View Details
TitleMan driving railroad track equipment device Date1963-08 SubjectRailroad equipment industry DescriptionPeople Working. Man operating a piece of railroad track equipment that appears to be used for spread... View Details
TitleMan with bulldozer Date1973-01-26 SubjectBuildings -- Design and construction DescriptionPeople Working. Man standing next to bulldozer and demolished pick-up truck near construction scene ... View Details
TitleMan holding billboard scraping tool Date1957-10-21 SubjectAdvertising DescriptionPeople Working. Man with sign scraper standing in front of outdoor advertising billboard promoting M... View Details
TitleMen on assembly line Date1973-03-27 SubjectEaton Manufacturing Company -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Men on assembly line at Eaton Corporation, Fuller Transmission Division. Client: Eat... View Details
TitleMan monitoring large printing press Date1950-05-03 SubjectNewspapers -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Operator standing next to newspaper printing press at Kalamazoo Gazette. Client: Min... View Details
TitleMan preparing liquid in paper company plant Date1947-12-09 SubjectMale employees DescriptionPeople Working. Photos of “old timers†includes employee in cap drawing chemicals from a... View Details
TitleMan writing note in paper company plant Date1947-12-09 SubjectMale employees DescriptionPeople Working. Photos of “old timers†includes employee in overalls and cap, possibly a... View Details
TitleMen shaking hands and presenting check Date1947-12-09 SubjectMale employees DescriptionPeople Working. Photos of “old timers†includes two older men, one identified as Cliff S... View Details
TitlePilot in cockpit Date1969-02-02 SubjectAirplanes - Cockpits DescriptionPeople Working. Pilot in plane looking at map. Instrument panel visible. Client: Bigsby Accessories,... View Details
TitleSecurity guard Date1973-04-05 SubjectUpjohn Company -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Raymond Gernaat, Upjohn Company security guard in uniform and hat, standing in front... View Details
TitleMan at desk Date1939-09-01 SubjectClergy DescriptionPeople Working. Reverend William A. Keith, wearing suit and glasses, seated at wooden desk with pen ... View Details
TitleSoldier pointing to map Date1944-11-30 SubjectSoldiers DescriptionPeople Working. Soldier, insignia indicates rank of Technician 5th Class United States Army, points ... View Details
TitleWomen in library viewing display board Date1950-10-07 SubjectMedical Librarians -Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Three female librarians in Upjohn Company Library looking at display, ""Interlibrary... View Details
TitleBakery scene, preparing pies Date1958-10 SubjectFood service employees DescriptionPeople Working. Three kitchen staff preparing pies at Bernhard Center, Western Michigan University, ... View Details
TitleWorkers inspecting aircraft parachute WWII Date1945-06-04 SubjectWorld War, 1939-1945 -- Equipment and supplies DescriptionPeople Working. Three unidentified men loading AN-M26 parachute flare into wooden crate on conveyor ... View Details
TitleMan painting a mural Date1958-09 SubjectMural painting and decoration DescriptionPeople Working. Timothy Lewis painting mural in main stairway of Dwight B. Waldo Library. Client: We... View Details
TitleTwo men pulling pharmaceuticals from stocking shelves Date1939-08-10 SubjectPharmaceutical industry -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Two men in aprons pulling orders for pharmaceutical products with labels bearing ""U... View Details
TitleMen working together in office Date1949-04-12 SubjectMale employees DescriptionPeople Working. Two men in suits seated in office and looking over papers. Safe and family photos in... View Details
TitleNurses with senior citizens Date1969-02 SubjectWomen working DescriptionPeople Working. Two nurses and two aids help an elderly man with cookies and punch at a Valentine's ... View Details
TitleTwo women working on factory production line Datecirca 1949 SubjectPharmaceutical industry - Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Two women in uniforms working on pharmaceutical bottling line. One is operating a la... View Details
TitleWatchmaker with tools Date1940-01-23 SubjectClock and watchmakers -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Watchmaker and tools at Paul E. Morrison Jewelers, Kalamazoo, MI. Client: Paul Morri... View Details
TitleWoman doing bookeeping Date1946-02-01 SubjectWriting -- Materials and instruments DescriptionPeople Working. Woman in business attire using fountain pen to write in a ledger. Client: Sutherland... View Details
TitleWoman at work making paper plates Date1945-04-15 SubjectPaper products industry -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Woman packing paper plates. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (Photographic Negative) View Details
TitleWoman packing paper plates Date1945-04-15 SubjectPaper products industry -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople Working. Woman placing packages of decorated paper plates into shipping boxes. Client: Suther... View Details
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