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Lumber Camp

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Description: Elevated view of lumber camp with loggers posing in front of a train loaded with logs.
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McCormick-Deering All-Steel Threshers Loaded on Railroad Cars

Date: 05 23 1925
Description: McCormick-Deering all-steel threshers loaded on railroad cars outside International Harvester's West Pullman Works (factory). The factory originally belong...
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Steam Engine in front of Factory

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Description: Men pose on and around a large steam engine locomotive and mineral cars(?) in front of a factory with tall smokestacks. The side of the engine reads: "Calu...
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Steam Locomotive Pulling Crane at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Steam locomotive moving an overhead crane used to lay rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. One man is standing on the right, and another man i...
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Workers Load Tractors onto Railroad Cars at IHC Tractor Works

Date: 1930
Description: Workers using an overhead crane to load new McCormick-Deering tractors (including the 10-20 and possibly the I-20) onto railroad cars outside International...
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Workers Load F-12 Tractors onto Railroad Cars at IHC Tractor Works

Date: 12 13 1934
Description: Workers loading Farmall F-12 tractors onto railroad cars using an overhead crane outside International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory yard is cover...
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Workmen on Railroad Viaduct

Date: 07 27 1931
Description: Group portrait of workmen in front of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad viaduct (Olin Avenue - US Highway 12) that is under construction.
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Railroad Tracks outside Deering Works

Date: 04 20 1929
Description: Railroad tracks and waterway outside International Harvester's Deering Works. The Deering Works was owned by the Deering Harvester Company before 1902.
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C.H. & L.J. McCormick's Reaper Manufactory

Date: 1875
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...
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W-30 Tractor Outside Factory

Date: 02 02 1934
Description: McCormick-Deering W-30 tractor outside a factory. A railroad flat car loaded with tractors is in the background.
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Norrkoping Works

Date: 1933
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Norrkoping Works in Norrkoping, Sweden.
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Montataire Works

Date: 1933
Description: Elevated view of International Harvester's Montataire Works in Montataire, France. Dwellings are in the foreground.
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Croix Twine Mill

Date: 05 1933
Description: International Harvester's Croix Twine Mill at Croix, France.
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Train Load of Tractors from Milwaukee Works

Date: 03 09 1927
Description: A train carrying tractors stopped on its way from Milwaukee Works (factory).
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Rail Shipment at Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: Several men are loading boxes and pallets from International Harvester's Tractor Works onto a train.
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International Harvester U.S. Map

Date: 1940
Description: Map illustrating the industrial uses of International crawler tractors (TracTracTors) across the United States. Includes the text: "International Serving I...
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10-20 Tractor in Railroad Yard

Date: 04 18 1926
Description: A worker uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to pull a platform along tracks in a railroad yard outside a factory or other type of industrial building.
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Train on Bridge

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Description: View of one of the first locomotives of the Fox River Valley, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad on a wooden trestle over a wetland. The locomotive has brass ...
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City of Quincy Truck

Date: 10 31 1938
Description: A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car.
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Loading Boxes from French Battery Company onto Railroad Cars

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Description: Two men loading boxes of batteries onto railroad cars with a conveyor belt. French Battery later became Ray-O-Vac Corporation.

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