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International Harvester Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of International Harvester McCormick line catalog depicting a lush, golden wheat field with a farmer riding a horse-drawn grain binder in the backgro...
Photograph

Binder Assembly at Deering Works

Date: 1905
Description: Men assembling binders at International Harvester's Deering Works (factory). The factory was originally built by William Deering for the Deering Harvester ...
Photograph

Deering Works Drafting Room

Date: 1905
Description: Three draftsmen are working at their desks at International Harvester's Deering Works. The factory was originally built by William Deering for the Deering ...
Photograph

Crowd of People at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1905
Description: A large crowd assembled outside International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The crowd is composed mostly of men, but includes a few boys and at least one gi...
Photograph

Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., Anita McCormick Blaine and Nettie Fowler McCormick

Date: 1905
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., (1859-1936), Anita McCormick Blaine (1866-1954) and their mother, Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923. The photo may ...
Photograph

African American Workers at IHC McCormick Works

Date: 1905
Description: Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ...
Photograph

McCormick Works Employees at Lunch

Date: 1905
Description: Factory workers eating lunch outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company before 19...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Advertising Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph illustration of a young bo...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Osborne line of farm implements. Features a chromolithograph with a mosaic of a woman w...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of harvesting machines, tillage and seeding implements. Features a...
Photograph

Streetcar Track Construction on Capitol Square

Date: 1905
Description: Construction of new streetcar tracks on the Capitol Square. In the background, on the corner of Main and Carroll streets, is the Park Hotel. Behind the hot...
Photograph

Man Posing in Factory Office

Date: 1905
Description: Man lounging against a full bookcase in an office area at McCormick Works in Chicago. A second man can just be seen behind the bookcase. A large dark room ...
Postcard

Upper Dam on the Fox River

Date: 1905
Description: Upper dam on the Fox River. Industrial buildings are on the opposite shoreline, and large houses are among trees on the hill beyond. Caption reads: "Upper ...
Postcard

Fox River

Date: 1905
Description: Fox River with a view of Appleton in the background. Caption reads: "Water Power, Appleton, Wis."
Postcard

Fox River Water Power

Date: 1905
Description: View from hill looking down towards the Fox river. Caption reads: "Fox River Water Power, Appleton, Wis."
Postcard

Fox River and Industrial Buildings

Date: 1905
Description: View from hill looking down towards the Fox River. On the opposite shoreline are industrial buildings. Further down the river on the right are bridges. Cap...
Book or Pamphlet

D.M. Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's line of Osborne harvesting machinery. The color illustration shows a man and a woman standing...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Cover of a catalog for International Harvester's line of Deering harvesting machinery, showing a man pitching hay.
Postcard

Industrial Sector

Date: 1905
Description: Caption reads: "Birds Eye View, from cotton mill tower, Beaver Dam, Wis." Two churches are in the background, and there are smokestacks and a water tower n...
Photograph

Lafayette County Courthouse

Date: 1905
Description: View of the Lafayette County Courthouse during construction. The men are placing the last stone into position.

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