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| Description: | Portrait of inventor John F. Appleby. The Wisconsin inventor is credited with inventing a knotting mechanism that made twine grain binders possible in the ... |
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| Description: | Mr. Asai and a woman (his wife?) standing on a rock. Mr. Asai was an International Harvester Company agent in Japan. |
| Date: | 1875 |
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| Description: | Drawing of the C.H. & L.J. McCormick Reaper Manufactory (McCormick Reaper Works). The factory was built after the Chicago Fire of 1871 destroyed the origin... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory workers entering the Oakley Avenue gate of the McCormick Reaper Works. The men are filing in from the street, passing railroad box... |
| Date: | 1871 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men and ships near the McCormick Works and the Chicago River during the Chicago Fire of 1871. The original caption reads: "Reproduction o... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Flags hanging above a McCormick Harvesting Machine display at what is possibly the World's Columbian Exposition (The World's Fair of 1893). A painting of a... |
| Date: | 1876 |
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| Description: | A Withington wire binder sits on display inside a building at the Centennial Exposition, the first official World's Fair in the United States. |
| Date: | 1861 |
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| Description: | Panoramic view of downtown Chicago before the fire of 1871. The photograph was taken from the South side of the Chicago River, looking Northeast. The Rush ... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Color illustration of the Rush Street Bridge and Chicago River as it appeared in 1861. Includes the C.H. McCormick Reaper Works on the far side of the rive... |
| Date: | 1909 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length oval studio portrait of Charles B. Withington, the inventor of the first practical wire binder. Withington was born in Akron, Ohio in 1830, ... |
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| Description: | Indoor view of a horse-drawn McCormick Mower. Wheels and writing suggest an early model predating International Harvester's 1903 incorporation. |
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| Description: | Side view of a McCormick Harvesting Machinery mower. Contextual clues suggest this may be a McCormick no.4 mower. |
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