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Man Working on Machine at Tractor Works

Date: 1947
Description: A factory worker wearing eyeglasses is holding a metal part while standing at a large machine in International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Freshly Painted Tractors at Tractor Works

Date: 1942
Description: "Freshly painted" crawler tractors (TracTracTors) "emerge from 190 ft. gas-fired drying oven" at International Harvester's Tractor Works. A factory worker ...
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Man Hardening Tractor Parts in Furnace

Date: 1942
Description: Factory worker hardens tractor parts in "one of a battery of gas-fired box type heat treating furnaces."
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Men Painting Crawler Tractors at Tractor Works

Date: 1943
Description: Factory workers painting crawler tractors (TracTracTors) at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Entrance to Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: Exterior view along sidewalk towards front door of International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory).
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Men with Scout in front of the Equitable Building

Date: 1966
Description: Men look over papers on the hood of an International Scout during International Harvester's move from 180 N. Michigan to 401 N. Michigan. The building in t...
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Stacks of Lumber near Factory

Date: 1902
Description: Large stacks of lumber, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works.
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"Pigs in Clover"

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of a young woman posing wearing a dress and bonnet in a studio. She is holding two young pigs. The image was likely used by the McCormick Harvesti...
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Factory Floor at McCormick Works

Date: 1902
Description: Rails or tracks in a factory floor, probably at the McCormick Reaper Works, with machines, a cart loaded with lumber, and ghostly images of workers in the ...
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Age and School Certificate Cover

Date: 01 05 1907
Description: A photograph of an "Age and School Certificate" for "Peter Stacloroski(?)." The certificate is filled in by hand and gives the boy's address as "399 N. 25 ...
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Two Men Oil a Wheel

Date: 04 23 1906
Description: Two men standing on what appears to be a factory floor, probably the McCormick Works, oiling a wheel. The man on the left is dressed in suit pants, vest an...
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IH Vertical Engine

Date: 02 26 1906
Description: An IH vertical engine engine is sitting on a table with a dark background at McCormick Works. The plate on the front of the engine reads: "I.H.C. Vertical ...
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Child Employment Document Cover

Date: 06 12 1906
Description: A document for employing children. The left side reads: "EMPLOYMENT OF CHILD. AFFIDAVIT UNDER ACT OF 1893. Name of Child_ Residence_ Filed and en...
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Republican Presidential Nomination Candidates

Date: 06 05 1884
Description: Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Robert T. Lincoln, General William T. Sherman, General Joseph Roswell Hawley, ...
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Irna Phillips Designing a Floor Plan

Date: 1949
Description: Irna Phillips is seated, and drawing a floor plan. On a table next to her are framed photographs of her children.
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Emma Seipp and Friends

Date: 1888
Description: Emma Seipp, third from left in second row, poses with eight other young women against a carved studio prop and painted backdrop. Two of the other women, Em...
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Petersen House

Date: 1930
Description: A room off the entrance hall of the Edward Petersen home at 1322 Astor Street in Chicago's Gold Coast area has a barrel vaulted ceiling and bookcases along...
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Manufacturing Machine

Date: 1900
Description: Manufacturing machine at McCormick Works.
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Road Construction in front of McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. Office

Date: 1900
Description: View of street being constructed outside the dealership office of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Co. on 212 Market Street. Stacks of cobblestones are in ...
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Music Room in the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of the music room. There is a piano with a piano stool against the wall on the left. Two rocking chairs, two chairs and a desk are gathered a...

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