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| Description: | Elevated view of men working in the metal finishing room of the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Metal parts are stacked on the floor and the room is suppor... |
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| Description: | View across foundry floor of factory workers in a large room with high ceilings, vent hoods and skylights at McCormick Works. Two men in the middle ground ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street of a McCormick agency(?) or dealership(?) building with man visible through a window. The windows are painted with symbols and ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in a warehouse beside bales of manila fiber used to make twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men feeding fiber into manufacturing machines standing on a large factory floor with a high ceiling, many exposed ceiling beams, windows, and brick walls. ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across large field dotted with many piles of harvested grain. In the middle distance is a man on a what may be a horse-drawn binder, and another man i... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of pedestrians and horse-drawn carriages along the streets in front of the city block that housed the McCormick Reaper Building. The building... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works factory, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. Men in the foreground are stacking piles of lumber. After 19... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a construction site surrounded by buildings in what appears to be an industrial area. A sign on the building on the left side of reads: "W... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A woman is holding a metal case as a man is standing and leaning against a desk in what appears to be a medical office or infirmary. The office is most lik... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers are loading a wooden crate marked "McCormick Folding Daisy Reaper" using a pulley system in the docks of the McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men unload pieces of lumber from the opened boxcars of a train near the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of factory workers testing(?) the binding mechanisms for grain binders at the McCormick Reaper Works. Loose hay and hay bundles are ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Equipment pieces are stacked on either side of an aisle in the packing room at McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at a canvas machine at the McCormick Reaper Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Entrance of an office building of the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company at 212 Market Street. The street around the building is full of rubble and appea... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A wooden exhibit cabinet, apparently recently constructed, on what appears to be a factory or shop floor with a work table, ladder, saw horse and wood shav... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers producing farm implement parts at the McCormick Reaper Works. A pulley system is set up on the ceiling and several piles of metal pieces ar... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A factory worker, facing away from the camera, is standing on a wooden bench and is using a tool to reach into a furnace at the McCormick Reaper Works. Mol... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of what appears to be the McCormick Reaper Works, with the west fork of the south branch of the Chicago River in the foreground. Smokestacks, railroad... |
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