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Elco's Location on Samuelson Road Prior to Building Construction, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of the site where the Elco factory would be built at 1111 Samuelson Road. The site was once nothing but farmland with a few outside buildings towards the right of the photograph. A dark vehicle is parked towards the center…
Employee Draining Screws, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of an Elco employee with his back to the camera as he pulls a cage filled with product out of a watertub. This was presumably the last stop before the product was sent for its final inspection. This image is an alternate…
Employee Entrance to Building, Elco Tool and Screw
Color photograph of the "employee entrance" from the main parking lot at the Elco Tool and Screw building on Samuelson Road. The canopy was later removed and the building was expanded.
Employee Inspecting an Object in Production Area, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of an Elco employee standing next to a large machine in one of the production areas. The employee is stationed on the left hand side of the machine and seems to be evaluating something in his hand. There are other machines…
Employee Monitoring Large Machine in Production Area, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of an Elco employee standing next to a large machine in one of the production areas. It looks as though this machine uses flames to help in the creation of bolts and screws; like the ones rolling off the conveyor belt. When…
Employee Straining Screws, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of an Elco employee pulling a cage filled with product out of a watertub. This was presumably the last stop before the product was sent for its final inspection. It appears as though the product was edited on this…
Employee Straining Screws, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of an Elco employee as he pulls a cage filled with product out of a watertub. This was presumably the last stop before the product was sent for its final inspection. This image is an alternate view of another photograph…
Employee Working in Production Area, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of an Elco employee working on a large production machine. The employee is stationed on the left hand side of the machine and seems to be focusing on one side of the belt. Surrounding the machine is several metal tubs…
Employee Working in Production Area, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of an Elco employee working on a piece of machinery. The employee is seated and is holding a screw in each hand and is inserting each one into a separate part of the machine. It is unclear what is being done to the screws,…
Employee Working in Production Area, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of an Elco employee reaching in to one of four large spinning drums. Ten full pails of products (possibly screws) can be seen lined up along the floor in front of said drums, possibly waiting for their turn to be spun.…
Employees and Spouses at the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Faust Hotel, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the Faust Hotel on November 5, 1963. This particular photograph shows a table shot with employees and their significant others enjoying conversation and…
Employees and Spouses at the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Wagon Wheel, Elco Industries, Inc.
Black and white group photograph of employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the the Wagon Wheel Restaurant in 1970. This particular photograph shows a table shot with employees and their significant others. Based on the…
Employees and Spouses at the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Wagon Wheel, Elco Industries, Inc.
Black and white group photograph of employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the the Wagon Wheel Restaurant in 1970. This particular photograph shows a table shot with employees and their significant others sitting with each other…
Employees and Spouses Conversing at the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Faust Hotel, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the Faust Hotel on November 5, 1963. This particular photograph shows a table shot with employees and their significant others enjoying conversation prior to…
Employees and Spouses Enjoying Dinner the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Faust Hotel, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the Faust Hotel on November 5, 1963. This particular photograph shows a table shot with employees and their significant others enjoying conversation while a…
Employees and Spouses Seated at Table 11 at the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Faust Hotel, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the Faust Hotel on November 8, 1951. This particular photograph shows table number eleven with employees and their significant others pausing one of their…
Employees and Spouses Seated at Table 6 at the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Wagon Wheel, Elco Industries, Inc.
Black and white group photograph of employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the the Wagon Wheel Restaurant in 1970. This particular photograph shows table number six with employees and their significant others sitting with each…
Employees in Front of a John Deere Tractor During Construction, Elco Industries, Inc.
Black and white photograph of six Elco Tool and Screw employees. These men are standing in front of a John Deere tractor in what appears to be a construction site.
Employees Opening their Anniversary Gifts at the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Faust Hotel, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of four employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the Faust Hotel on November 8, 1951. This particular photograph shows Rose Edstrom, Carl Segergren, Carl Anderson, and F.G. Richardson (specific order…
Employees Pose at the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Wagon Wheel, Elco Industries, Inc.
Black and white group photograph of employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the the Wagon Wheel Restaurant in 1970. In this particular photograph 18 employees stand together on the stage to pose for the photograph.
Employees Posing at Annual Company Picnic, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of Elco employees at their annual company picnic. Two male employees are posing for the camera with cigars in their mouths with the park in the background.
Employees Receive Award, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of six Elco employees standing in an office holding a plaque (possibly one that was just awarded to their department). Three of the six employees can be identified (from middle to right) Joe Stalter, Don Hardesty, and Al…
Engineering Department, Rockford Products
Larry Seagren, an employee in the engineering department, uses an IBM computer Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).
Engineering Department, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of three Elco Tool and Screw Corp. employees in the Engineering Department. Two men are sitting, working at drafting tables while the third is working in a back section of the office.
Engineering Supervisor at Rockford Products
Jim Hartman, Engineering Supervisor, Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).
Evelyn Axelson, Receptionist, Rockford Products
Evelyn Axelson, Receptionist at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue). A typewriter sits on the desk behind her.
Executives Pose with a Cold Former, Rockford Products
Merrell Anderson, Vice President of Manufacturing on the leftward Lidbetter, President in the middle. Third person unknown. The men are standing by the 750 cold former at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).
Executives Pose with a Threading Machine, Rockford Products
Charlie Wagner, Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Merrill Anderson, Vice President of Manufacturing, and Dick Norberg, Vice President of Rockford International all pose with a #60 Roll Threader at Rockford Products
Factory on Samuelson Road, Elco Tool and Screw
Photograph of Elco Tool and Screw Corp. building located at 1111 Samuelson Road in Rockford. Date is stamped on the back as July 5, 1963.
Families Enjoying the Annual Company Picnic, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of Elco employees at their annual company picnic. This particular view of the picnic was taken near the picnic tables in the shade of the trees. Families sit at the table, or stand near by, as a clown gets set up to…
Filling a Bin with Completed Fasteners
Sonny Matlock fills a bin with completed fasteners at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).
Five Employees Working in Production Area, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of Elco employees working on machines. This photograph shows the vast number of machines that are available (it looks as though each employee would have his own machine). There are bins under each machine so it can be…
Four Individuals Posing at the Twenty Year Party Hosted at the Faust Hotel, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of employees at Elco Tool and Screw Twenty Year Party hosted at the Faust Hotel on November 8, 1951. This particular photograph shows four individuals (employees and spouses or just employees) posing for the photographer in…
Frank Madsen, Rockford Screw Products
Frank Madsen, a Rockford Screw Products employee, at his desk.
Friden Johnson, Rockford Screw Products Stock Clerk
Rockford Screw Products Stock Clerk, Friden Johnson, at his desk.
Gary Seegers, Rockford Screw Products Controller
Gary Seegers, Rockford Products Controller.
Gerald Broski, President of Rockford Products.
Gerald Broski, President of Rockford Products.
Giddings and Lewis Numerical Drill, Rockford Products
A Rockford Products employee in the Plant #3 Tool Room operates the Giddings and Lewis Numerical drill.
Gil Styles, Purchasing Agent, Rockford Products
Gil Styles, Purchasing Agent, Rockford Products
Group of Employees Posing at the Annual Company Picnic, Elco Tool and Screw
Black and white photograph of Elco employees at their annual company picnic. Two men and one woman standing posing for the photographer. In the background are a group of children and a large truck that was probably used to transport supplies for the…
Group of Men with the Rockford Screw Products Airplane
Eighteen men in front of the Screw Bird airplane of Rockford Screw Products.
Hand Packing Fasteners, Rockford Products
Employees pack fasteners by hand at Rockford Products Plant #1 (2501 9th Street)
Hardness Testing in the Metallurgical Laboratory, Rockford Products
Ken Sears performing a hardness test in the Metallurgical Laboratory at Rockford Products Plant#3.
Hardness Testing, Rockford Products
Rockford Products Plant #3 Rockwell hardness testing machines.
Hardness Testing, Rockford Products
Rockford Products Plant #3 Rockwell hardness testing machines.
Header Line at Rockford Products
The header line at Rockford Products Plant #3 where bolts and fasteners of all kinds were made.
Header Line at Rockford Products
Header line at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue). The reels of wire can be seen being fed into the machines.
Header, Rockford Products
A Header operator and his machine at Rockford Products Plant #3 (707 Harrison Avenue).
Heat Treating, Rockford Products
Heat treat machines at Rockford Products Plant #3.
Heat Treating, Rockford Products
An employee at Rockford Products Plant #3 monitors a heat treating control cabinet.