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Group of Workers Posing on Flat Cars Loaded with Lumber

Date: 09 21 1914
Description: Group portrait of men posing while standing and sitting on two small flat cars linked to each other. One of the cars is loaded with lumber. Another set of ...
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Madison McCormick Dealership

Date: 1899
Description: McCormick Harvesting Machine Company dealership operated by general agent J.G. Coleman. Built in 1898, with a frontage on Blount Street of 40 feet and 116 ...
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Fauerbach Brewing Co. Buildings

Date: 04 01 1938
Description: Two men are standing next to a railroad car at the rear of the Fauerbach Brewing Company at 651-653 Williamson Street.
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Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 08 12 1931
Description: View towards the back side of the Fauerbach Brewery Building, 651-653 Williamson Street, showing railroad railroad tracks and siding.
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Fauerbach Brewery

Date: 08 12 1931
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the back side of the Fauerbach Brewery Building, 651-653 Williamson Street. A man is standing just inside a doorway at ...
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Pyrofax Plant

Date: 09 25 1929
Description: Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. Pyrofax plant under construction, 130 Fair Oaks Avenue, looking towards a chain link fence and gate surrounding the plant. R...
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Capitol Oil Company

Date: 04 03 1929
Description: View towards the Capitol Oil Company building, located at 919 East Main Street.
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St. Louis Branch House

Date: 1917
Description: International Harvester branch house. A bystander watches a man work on one of the railroad tracks outside the building. An man in a automobile is driving ...
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Worker Driving Dump Truck

Date: 11 20 1925
Description: A man driving a Heil dump truck.
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International Mobiloil Service Vehicle

Date: 08 09 1929
Description: Two men are filingl oil cans from the back of an International truck operated by Mobiloil. Text on the side of the truck reads: "The World's Quality Oil" a...
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Machine Shop in Hudson

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Description: Slightly elevated view of a machine shop in Hudson, which was built in 1916. There are railroad tracks and railroad cars along the left side of the buildin...
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Early P&H Machine Shop

Date: 1886
Description: Exterior view of one of the first Pawling & Harnischfeger machine shops. The building was built in 1886 on the corner of South First Street and East Oregon...
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Sugar Factory

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Description: A steam locomotive moves along a set of railroad tracks near a sugar beet processing plant with a tall smokestack. There are several small outbuildings in ...
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McCormick Harvesting Machine Company Agency

Date: 1900
Description: View across railroad tracks of men and women standing in front of a McCormick Harvester Machine Company dealership or branch house on a dirt road in an uni...
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Flatcars Loaded with Lumber in Front of a Factory

Date: 12 22 1906
Description: Six flat cars loaded with lumber are lined up behind a locomotive in a factory rail yard, probably at the McCormick Works. In the background is a large fac...
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Railroad Tracks into Plant Gate

Date: 02 01 1912
Description: Railroad tracks covered in snow are curving under a gate leading into a factory yard. The factory is likely the International Harvester Osbourne branch in ...
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Rear View of Parked Truck

Date: 03 30 1912
Description: Rear view of the bed of an International(?) truck parked on a city street. In front of the truck is a block filled with storefronts. Streetcar tracks run a...
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Elevated View of Plant Under Construction

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a building at McCormick Works under construction. There are railroad cars under a section of the building under construction.
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Exterior of Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: Slightly elevated view of dealership building. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, along two sides of the building, near the loading docks of the factor...
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Exterior of Dealership

Date: 1900
Description: View across railroad tracks towards a group of people posing in front of a dealership.

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