Photograph
McCormick Works Employee Posing with Mower Drivetrains
| McCormick Works employee Peter Butzen with paint can and brush, applying pin-stripes to binder parts. He is posing with mower drivetrains hanging from hooks inside IHC's McCormick Works paint and pinstriping room, Chicago, Illinois. There are details of mower pin-striping. In operation from 1873-1961, the works was located at Blue Island Avenue and Western Avenue in the Chicago subdivision called "Canalport." The works encompassed 160 acres of multi-story buildings and 103.3 land acres at maximum. It later closed in 1961 due to technological and architectural obsolescence. Products: binders, reapers, headers, push binders, corn machines, harvester-threshers, mowers, rakes, sweep rakes, hay stackers, huskers and shredders, ensilage cutters, knife cutters, cotton machines, seeders, farm trucks, fertilizer distributors, harrows, manure spreaders, mowers, potato planters, rakes, rotary hoes, tractor-trailers, auto-buggies (until 1907), binder twine (until 1951). |
| Image ID: | 9098 |
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| Creation Date: | 09 1908 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Chicago |
| County: | |
| State: | Illinois |
| Collection Name: | Glass negative series, circa 1900-1939 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, original |
| Original Format Number: | Box 97, IHMC-1215 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 inches |
| Painters |
| Agricultural machinery |
| Hats |
| Agricultural machinery industry |
| Indoor photography |
| Men |
| Parts |
| Blue collar workers |
| Work clothes |
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