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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers feeding sisal or manila fiber into machines, most likely at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Little Giant husker-shredders arranged in rows inside a warehouse at the McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory workers at stations in the Shredder Department at the McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Sisal (hennequen) fiber streaming from machines at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Stacks of implement wheels in a factory storage room, most likely at the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Large stacks of lumber, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Factory workers standing amid machinery in the forge shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Three women standing in a factory cafeteria, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Portrait of a young woman posing wearing a dress and bonnet in a studio. She is holding two young pigs. The image was likely used by the McCormick Harvesti... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Rails or tracks in a factory floor, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works, with machines, a cart loaded with lumber, and ghostly images of workers in the ... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Factory workers standing at stations apparently designed to test knotters for grain binders, most likely at the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Machinery on a factory floor, most likely at McCormick Works. Workers are in the background. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | A doctor(?) and a young man standing in a factory medical office or first aid station, most likely at McCormick Works. Pails and jugs are on the floor, and... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Early McCormick reaper at McCormick Works. There is a white sheet hanging in the background for a backdrop. |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Piece of machinery, possibly part of a grain binder, propped up on a factory floor, most likely at McCormick Works. There is a white sheet hanging in the b... |
| Date: | 08 08 1929 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a man sitting in the driver's seat of an International delivery truck for the "Vacuum Oil Company." The top of the cab reads: "Mobiloil" w... |
| Date: | 08 09 1929 |
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| Description: | Low angle close-up of the front side of an International oil delivery truck. The side of the truck reads "Quality Oil" and below is a logo reading "Gargoyl... |
| Date: | 07 24 1906 |
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| Description: | Right side view of a man sitting on a Milwaukee No. 12 Harvester and Binder (grain binder). In the background are men standing by a large metal gate and ra... |
| Date: | 01 05 1907 |
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| Description: | A photograph of an "Age and School Certificate" for "Peter Stacloroski(?)." The certificate is filled in by hand and gives the boy's address as "399 N. 25 ... |
| Date: | 01 05 1907 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an "Age and School Certificate" completed by a mother giving her 15-year-old son permission to work. The form reads: "THIS CERTIFICATE NOT T... |
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