TitlePhoto montage of steelworkers Date1944-09-11 SubjectIndustries -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionAdvertising. People Working. Photo of layout for montage for Process Steel Company. Most views of ma... View Details
TitleJasper C. Davis Lansing City Engineer DateUnknown SubjectPortraits--Lansing, Mich. DescriptionPhoto of Jasper C. Davis, Lansing. City Engineer of Lansing. Worked for Union Pacific at Denver, CO;... View Details
TitleStrike Slated at Munson is Postponed Date1970-03-26 SubjectLabor Relations DescriptionNewspaper article. View Details
TitleCamp 4 of the Michigan State Telephone Company, located on the Brule River in northeastern Wisconsin Date1908 SubjectTelephone companies -- Employees DescriptionPhotograph of the Michigan State Telephone Company, located on the Brule River in northeastern Wisco... View Details
TitleRailroad gang Dateca. 1900 SubjectRailroads -- Employees DescriptionExtremely early and unidentified photograph may record a crew from the railroad gang which cut, grad... View Details
TitleExtension of the Wisconsin Michigan Railway from Norway to Quinnesec Dateca. 1903 SubjectRailroads -- Employees DescriptionPhotograph of a crew employed by John Marsch to extend the Wisconsin & Michigan Railway from Faithor... 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
TitleLibrary charge desk, WMU Date1958-10 SubjectAcademic libraries DescriptionEducation. Main circulation desk in lobby of new Dwight B. Waldo Library at Western Michigan Univers... View Details
TitleGroup portrait, company picnic Date1972-05-30 SubjectMead Corporation -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionEvents. Employees at Mead Container Corporation picnic and award presentation, 4141 Manchester Road.... View Details
TitleMan presenting award at company picnic Date1972-05-30 SubjectMead Corporation -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionEvents. Garth Miller holding award to be presented to Frank Hiestand at company picnic and award pre... View Details
TitleIndustrial machine of George Olcott Company Date1969-04-07 SubjectManufacturing industries - Allegan (Mich.) DescriptionIndustrial Products. Industrial sandblasting machine manufactured by George Olcott Company, Allegan.... 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
TitleWoman with collector ring Date1969-04-30 SubjectWomen employees DescriptionIndustrial Products. Woman, identified as Holly Burnette, with industrial collector ring. Kalamazoo,... View Details
TitleMan working outside on steel mill reel Date1964-01-29 SubjectSteel industry and trade -- Kalamazoo (Mich.) DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. Man wearing hardhat, coat, and gloves, outdoors examining steel mill reel compone... View Details
TitleMan with fire extinguisher Date1943-04-01 SubjectCoal trade DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. People Working. Hayward Hawkins with fire extinguisher in coal yard. Client: Shak... View Details
TitleProduction for war parachute canisters Date1944-02-01 SubjectWorld War, 1939-1945 DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. People Working. Women and men loading AN-M26 parachute flares into wooden crates ... View Details
TitleWar production for parachutes Date1944-02-01 SubjectWorld War, 1939-1945 DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. People Working. Women assembling parachutes for AN-M26 parachute flares at Kalama... 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
TitleTwo women and one man in production area of Kalamazoo Stove Company Date1946-08-15 SubjectStove industry and trade DescriptionIndustrial Scenes. Two women wearing dresses and work gloves, one in kerchief, pulling metal trays o... 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
TitleMottos Date1964-07 SubjectEmployee motivation DescriptionPeople - Daily Life. Photo of five small signs, motivational mottos for the work environment. Job o... View Details
TitleEckrich group around table Date1953-03 SubjectWomen employees DescriptionPeople - Daily Life. Unidentified Eckrich employees in meeting seated around a rectangular table. Te... View Details
TitlePeople in computer room Date1969-06-25 SubjectComputers DescriptionPeople Working. Computer room at Aeromotive Manufacturing includes female operator seated at key pun... View Details
TitlePreparing food for WMU student center Date1958-10 SubjectFood service employees DescriptionPeople Working. Cooks preparing food at Bernhard Center, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI.... View Details
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