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| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A worker at International Harvester's Akron Works testing a truck engine crankshaft with a micrometer. The factory was owned by the Aultman & Miller Buckey... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Employees working on cream separator(?) components at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company u... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Workers assembling and boxing mower frames for shipment at one of International Harvester's "Harvester Works" (most likely McCormick Works). |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Female workers using machines to ball twine at International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The Deering works was located at Fullerton and Clybourn ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Workers on an assembly line producing mowers at an International Harvester factory - possibly the McCormick Works in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Workers standing beside boiling vats at a sugar mill where the sap is boiled and made into sorghum molasses. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A factory worker adjusts a mechanical lubricator at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A man in a suit looks over an experimental motor cultivator while other men look on. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Workers posing in a doorway at the Prairie du Sac dam construction site. Two men appear to be working on a gas lamp, while others are holding spools of wir... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a group of workers posing on the east bank of the Wisconsin River at the power dam construction site. One man is strumming his shovel like... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | A worker standing at the controls of a generator, most likely in the temporary power house at the Prairie du Sac dam site. The steam driven generator produ... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Factory workers use machinery surrounded by bins of metal parts at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assemble parts at International Harvester's McCormick Works. A large pile of wooden boards is in the background. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Man assembling a load-brake ratch on a type "A" trolley, possibly at the Pawling and Henry plant. The man is leaning over, and behind him is a drop cloth. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of an iron ore ship unloading. Several workers are on board the ship. Caption reads: "Unloading Iron Ore At Sparrows Point, MD." |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | View of several ships at the ore docks of Maryland Steel Company. Text on the ship on the left may read "Craigeab" (text is difficult to make out). The nam... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working in the foundry area of a plant. |
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