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Because this was a picture TW had thinking it might be a room at Springfield Armory or Frankford Arsenal. I then recognized the windows and it was all downhill from there.   The man is A.O. Niedner, the shop is in Dowagiac, MI.
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Mr. Hughes is definitely correct about the barrel straightening machine, the one with the ship's wheel in the foreground left. Plainly seen is one of the hooks above that the barrel fits into, as well as bit of the other at the edge of the frame. Between them you can see the square ram protruding from the housing on the axis of the wheel. Notice that it is pointed at a windowed wall?
I also agree that the machine behind it is a sine bar rifling machine, but I don't recall seeing one with a horizontal sine bar. I would love to have a good look at it. The only other thing I think it might be is a taper/ profile guide part of a tracing lathe. Still, almost for sure a rifling machine.
I will go out on a limb and say that what can be seen in the lower right corner of the frame, foreground, is a barrel drill. What we can see is the top of the far end, with the rest of it out of the frame extending towards the camera.
Good stuff! Thanks!
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It's threads like this that make this forum the most interesting thing on the web.
Thank you Mr. Petrov!
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In the first workshop picture I can add to the tools so far commented on, a Drill Press, a small lathe and what appears to be a very large dia grindstone.
Other items are a Pot Belly Stove, definately a gunshop judging by the 15 or so rifles in racks on the far wall either side of the targets.
Notably abscent in the first workshop picture is artificial lighting, plenty of windows but nothing else in the way of illumintion is apparent. Only in the later pictures are electric lights to be seen.
The large chimney on the smaller extension suggests the belt drive machinery was possibly steam powered.
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Tom Shelhamer used to burn his mistakes in that potbelly stove
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A different view of the shop. 
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What the hey, might as well look at the other shops.  
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