TitleCopy negative of Stay Alive Minnow Bucket Date1945-12-18 SubjectFishing -- Equipment and supplies -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionBusiness Products. Copy negative of ""Stay Alive Minnow Bucket"" produced by Shakespeare Company, Ka... View Details
TitleCirculator parts Date1947-03-01 SubjectGeneral Gas Light Company -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionBusiness Products. Copy negative of circulator parts. Client: General Gas Light Company, manufacture... View Details
TitleEmpty dog cages Date1969-06 SubjectDogs - equipment and supplies DescriptionAdvertising. Empty dog cages. Client: Unifab Corporation. Kalamazoo, MI. June 1969. (Photographic Ne... View Details
TitleNeil's Automotive Service display Date1940-08-06 SubjectBanks and banking - Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionAdvertising. Display for Neil's Automotive Service, distributor of Bendix Products, and ""School's O... View Details
TitleStore displays of fishing rods Date1949-03-01 SubjectFishing -- Equipment and supplies -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionAdvertising. Display of ""Shakespeare Fine Fishing Tackle"" includes product displays of Glass Fiber... View Details
TitleGas heater Date1939-07-22 SubjectHeating -- Equipment and supplies DescriptionBusiness Products. Gas heater produced by General Gas Light Company of Kalamazoo, Michigan. Manufact... View Details
TitleField hand driving a team through a Morgan Lumber and Cedar Company wheat field Dateca. 1900 SubjectFarm equipment DescriptionPhotograph of an unidentified fieldhand driving a team pulling a grain binder, through a Morgan Lumb... View Details
TitleView of the excavation for a new business at the northeast corner of South Stephenson Avenue and Eas Date1927 SubjectExcavation DescriptionPhotograph of the excavation for a $35,000 one-story brick and steel business building at the northe... View Details
TitleSteam shovel and crew of the Hamilton Shaft of the Chapin Mine Dateca. 1900 SubjectMines and mineral resources -- Equipment and supplies DescriptionPhotograph of the steam shovel, an expensive and vital piece of machinery, particularly for the larg... View Details
TitleBailer at the Hamilton Mine Dateca. 1900 SubjectMines and mineral resources -- Equipment and supplies DescriptionPhotograph of a bailer, with a capacity of 2, 560 gallons, at the No. 2 shaft of the Hamilton Mine. ... View Details
TitleThree female office workers at Klose Electric Company Date1951-01 SubjectElectric lighting -- Equipment and supplies DescriptionBusiness Scenes. Interior view of office and the secretarial staff, wearing corsages and stylish dr... View Details
TitleLighting showroom of Klose Electric Company Date1951-01 SubjectDisplay of merchandise DescriptionBusiness Scenes. Interior view of showroom displaying residential overhead lighting, table lamps on... View Details
TitleBusinesswoman behind desk at Klose Electric Company Date1951-01 SubjectElectric lighting -- Equipment and supplies DescriptionBusiness Scenes. Lucille S. Klose, President, Klose Electric Company, 509 Mills Street, seated at h... View Details
TitleCatalog cover for industrial reels Date1969-04-14 SubjectAdvertising DescriptionIndustrial Products. Advertising. Catalog cover and mailer, ""Reels for Industry"" from the Aero-Mo... View Details
TitleDairy equipment and supplies Date1945-01-24 SubjectMilking machines DescriptionIndustrial Products. Chore Boy milking machine photographed at Howard Hopkins, location unknown. Cli... View Details
TitleFeed roll Date1969-04-30 SubjectIndustrial buildings - Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionIndustrial Products. Feed roll from machine at Union Camp Corp., Honeycomb Division. Kalamzoo, MI. ... View Details
TitleIndustrial reel, copy negative Date1969-04-14 SubjectIndustrial equipment industry DescriptionIndustrial Products. Industrial reel. Client: Aeromotive Manufacturing Company (Photographic Negativ... View Details
TitleMan on Kalamazoo railroad motor car Date1958-06 SubjectRailroad motor-cars DescriptionIndustrial Products. Man in work clothes standing inside ""Kalamazoo"" brand velocipede railcar disp... View Details
TitleRailroad tie removing equipment Date1957-08 SubjectRailroad equipment industry DescriptionIndustrial Products. Man operating railroad tie removing equipment. Client: Matissa Equipment Corp. ... View Details
TitleBusinessmen outside show bus Datec. 1957 SubjectBuses DescriptionIndustrial Products. People Working. Show bus for Hammond Machinery Builders, Inc. demonstrations. T... View Details
TitleBusinessmen in show bus with machinery Datec. 1957 SubjectBuses DescriptionIndustrial Products. People Working. Three men inside the show bus for demonstrations for Hammond Ma... 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
TitlePoster of reel with type captions Date1965-01 SubjectIndustrial equipment DescriptionIndustrial Products. Poster. Series – L. Industrial reel with cutaway drawing and identifying... View Details
TitleSand blasted industrial part Date1969-05 SubjectFactories -- Equipment and supplies DescriptionIndustrial Products. Unidentified sand blasted part from the George Olcott Company, Allegan, MI. Cli... View Details
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