TitleOffice desk area Date1940-01-16 SubjectOffice furniture -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionBusiness Scenes. Unidentified office includes desk, telephone, office furniture and venetian blinds.... View Details
TitleOffice desk area with rolltop desk Date1940-01-16 SubjectOffice furniture -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionBusiness Scenes. Unidentified office includes rolltop desk, lamp, trophies, telephone, venetian blin... View Details
TitleMultiple desks in office Date1940-01-16 SubjectOffice furniture -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionBusiness Scenes. Unidentified office interior includes desks, telephones, typewriters and venetian b... View Details
TitleField House of Western Michigan University, entry area Date1957-10 SubjectUniversities and colleges -- Buildings DescriptionEducation. Business Scenes. Exterior view of Read Field House entrance, Western Michigan University,... View Details
TitleField House of Western Michigan University, interior Date1957-10 SubjectUniversities and colleges -- Buildings DescriptionEducation. Business Scenes. Interior view of Read Field House, Western Michigan University, Kalamazo... View Details
TitlePeople at a company picnic Date1943-08-12 SubjectIngersoll Steel Company -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionEvents. Families going through buffet line at Ingersoll Steel Co. picnic. Client: Ingersoll Steel Co... View Details
TitleSkit at a sales meeting Date1949-04-14 SubjectShell Oil Company -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionEvents. Man in a cardboard car in a play filling up the gas tank. Automobile skit. Client: Shell Oil... View Details
TitleFactory control panel at Checker Cab Company Date1957-05 SubjectReliance Gauge Column Company -- Cleveland (OH) DescriptionIndustrial Products. Control panel at Checker Cab Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan. Client: Reliance Gau... View Details
TitleElectrical panel Date1944-12-09 SubjectElectric circuit-breakers DescriptionIndustrial Products. Electrical panels/circuit breakers at Gilmore's Department Store, Kalamazoo, MI... View Details
TitleIndustrial grinding machines Date1957-05 SubjectIndustrial equipment -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionIndustrial Products. People Working. Three men standing by industrial machinery including Hammond El... View Details
TitleRailroad motorcar from bottom Date1957-07 SubjectKalamazoo Manufacturing Company -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionIndustrial Products. Railroad motorcar. Underside view. Client: Kalamazoo Manufacturing Company (Pho... View Details
TitleIndustrial press Date1957-05 SubjectBrundage Company -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. Johnson Press in Brundage Company. Client: Brundage Company (Photographic Negativ... View Details
TitleIndustrial machine area Date1940-01-16 SubjectKirsch Company -- Sturgis (Mich.) DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. Laboratory, possibly Upjohn Company. Features equipment and venetian blinds. Clie... View Details
TitleCan machine with two workers Date1945-01-30 SubjectSutherland Paper Company -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. Two employees operating machinery to produce cans and lids. Client: Sutherland Pa... View Details
TitleTwo women examining paper company machine Date1945-04-15 SubjectWomen employees DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. Two women remove paper products from machine. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (P... View Details
TitlePaper company machine with woman working Date1945-04-15 SubjectWomen employees DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. Woman operating unidentified paper equipment. Client: Sutherland Paper Company (P... View Details
TitleWoman with car beside house Date1957-06 SubjectOtto Kihm Tire Company -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionPeople - Daily Life. Mrs. Grace Deeter and her Chrysler automobile standing by house at 1116 Roselan... View Details
TitleSoldiers being served at U.S.O. Date1944-06-01 SubjectUnited Service Organizations (U.S.) DescriptionPeople - Daily Life. Societies - Service Organizations. Six unidentified soldiers served by woman at... View Details
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 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
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
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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