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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard... |
| Date: | 11 06 1935 |
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| Description: | Eleven pairs of damaged eyeglasses or spectacles. The eyeglasses may have been worn by workers at International Harvester's Auburn Works (factory), or they... |
| Date: | 02 15 1929 |
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| Description: | Mechanic punching a ticket at a time clock for a service job at one of International Harvester's motor truck branch service stations. A poster warning of t... |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | Citizens look on as City of Chicago emergency personnel and others carry an injured boy at an accident scene. The event was most likely a staged exercise. ... |
| Date: | 03 23 1929 |
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| Description: | City of Chicago ambulance personnel are loading a person involved in an accident into an International ambulance as a small group of people are looking on.... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Approximately 24 fire extinguishers mounted on a wall in a storage area. |
| Date: | 09 07 1926 |
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| Description: | In the foreground is a fire, presumably with stumps that were pulled by the man in the background driving a tractor. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | View across water towards trees in the distance. There are clumps of hay or plants in the water, perhaps a flooded field. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | View across field flooded with water towards trees in the distance. There are clumps of hay or plants in the water. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | Clump of grain in a field, perhaps left by a flood. |
| Date: | 04 30 1927 |
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| Description: | View across grain piled in a field, which appears to be flooded in the background. There is a building in the distance. |
| Date: | 07 22 1927 |
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| Description: | A man is using a tractor to pull down a tree. There is smoke along the ground from a fire. |
| Date: | 04 25 1928 |
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| Description: | Man posing demonstrating possible accident in work situation. |
| Date: | 05 11 1907 |
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| Description: | Interior view from plant floor, towards a floor collapsed on level above. Men are standing on the first floor, and other men are looking down from above at... |
| Date: | 05 11 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards collapsed floor on second level, with factory floor below. Brick wall along opposite side. |
| Date: | 05 11 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards brick wall and window of debris from floor collapse in factory building. |
| Date: | 05 11 1907 |
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| Description: | View looking down through a hole in the collapsed plant floor at McCormick Works. The first floor and windows in the brick wall are below. |
| Date: | 05 11 1907 |
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| Description: | View from plant floor, looking up at collapsed floor on the next level. |
| Date: | 07 1907 |
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| Description: | View towards the side of an Illinois Northern railroad train, with two engines, a coal car and a car with the front wall burst out. At McCormick Works. The... |
| Date: | 03 26 1912 |
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| Description: | Accident at plant, with the roof caved in. |
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