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  • Collection: American Brake Shoe Collection

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Jean Reily, Testing Specific Gravity at the ABEX Metallurgy Lab.

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Brake Shoe place, a street at the very edge of the West Mahwah Neighborhood

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Exterior shot of the Brake Shoe Laboratory building, present day.

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Employees of the American Brake Shoe and Foundry who participated in the research and development of the Atomic Bomb.

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An issue of the Entertainment magazine of "Private Wire".
Contains the image of Ernest Busch cleaning molds with air

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Representatives from American Brake Shoe and Union representatives agree to end a strike.

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A weekly paycheck given to a laborer at American Brake Shoe in 1941

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The famous ABEX inventor Howard Avery. Owner of at least 10 patents related to the Brake Shoe, metallurgy, and welding. His inventions were important for ABEX and the industry. He was also an outspoken member of the local Board of Education, and a…

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A pamphlet that shows the production of various war products during world war 2.
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