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McCormick Works Manufacturing Area

Date: 1900
Description: A large room with manufacturing equipment at the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company's factory ("reaper works") in Chicago. Men in work clothes are at so...
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Man Posing in Factory Office

Date: 1905
Description: Man lounging against a full bookcase in an office area at McCormick Works in Chicago. A second man can just be seen behind the bookcase. A large dark room ...
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Horse-Drawn Reaper with Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Two men, two women and a boy harvesting grain with an early McCormick reaper. A windmill is in the background. The photograph may have been a staged re-ena...
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Horse-Drawn Reaper with Windmill

Date: 1905
Description: Two men, two women and a boy harvesting grain with an early McCormick reaper. A windmill is in the background. The photograph may have been a staged re-ena...
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Horse-Drawn Haying Operation

Date: 1900
Description: Men, women, horse-drawn mowers and buggies in a field. A horse-powered hay stacker is in the background with two men on a large haystack.
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Hay Stacker, Horse-Drawn

Date: 1905
Description: Man driving a hay stacker mounted on a jin-pole lifting hay in air behind. A boy wearing striped shirt and overalls on is standing on a haystack in the bac...
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Men and Boy with Horse-Drawn Mower

Date: 1900
Description: A boy wearing a large floppy hat is sitting on a sickle-bar mower hitched to a team of horses. An older man, with a beard and a straw hat, and two younger ...
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Horse Powered Hay Press

Date: 01 11 1906
Description: Two men operating a hay press in a mown field. Two horses are hitched to the machine.
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Hay Press, Horse Powered

Date: 1905
Description: Horse hitched to a hay press near International Harvester's Champion Works. A sign on the factory reads: "International Harvester Co. Champion Division." T...
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Corn Binder with Shocker

Date: 1902
Description: Four men stand next to a horse-drawn corn binder in a cornfield. A shock of corn is suspended in the air with a corn shocker. Two of the men have light-col...
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Mule Drawn Binder

Date: 1905
Description: Corn binder hitched to two mules in field in Algeria. In the distance are low hills. One bearded man, wearing what appears to be a full-length hooded jella...
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Building at Walnut Grove(?)

Date: 1900
Description: Weathered building, possibly at Walnut Grove, the family farm of Cyrus McCormick. Walnut Grove was near Steele's Tavern, Virginia.
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Chicken Farm and Coops in Farmyard

Date: 1905
Description: View of farmyard with a flock of chickens and several chicken coops in foreground. A farmhouse is in the background.
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Champion Harvester and Binder

Date: 1900
Description: 1900 Champion grain binder with a "For Sale" sign on it sitting in front of a barn. The sign on the machine reads: "1900 Champion Har. and Binder; No Good ...
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Factory Worker at Osborne Works

Date: 09 1908
Description: Factory worker sawing a large piece of lumber at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as "Auburn Works"). The belt-driven machinery is alon...
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Wooden Evener for Horses

Date: 07 1907
Description: A wooden evener for horse-drawn farm equipment hanging on a wooden, plank fence outside of McCormick Works(?).
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Farmer Operating Reaper with Children Nearby

Date: 1905
Description: A farmer operating a horse-drawn self-rake reaper while children are following close by.
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Malvern Farm Supply Company

Date: 1905
Description: The Malvern Farm Supply Company. The large sign reads: "Malvern Farm Supply Company, Agricultural Implements and Machinery, McCormick Binders, Mowers, Reap...
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Train Stopped at Crossroads

Date: 03 1907
Description: The engine of a train stopped at a crossroad, possibly near International Harvester's McCormick Works (factory).
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Horse-Powered Hay Press

Date: 01 15 1908
Description: Three men in a field use a horse-powered hay press. Two carriages are on the the left.

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