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Edward A. Birge

Date: 1917
Description: Edward A. Birge and Chancey Juday with plankton trap in Lake Mendota. From album of photographs relating to the research in limnology conducted at Trout La...
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Union Pacific Railroad Crew

Date: 1917
Description: Eighteen man crew for the Union Pacific Silo Special Trip posing for a group portrait in front of railroad cars.
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Mogul 10-20 Tractor on Snow-Covered Street

Date: 1917
Description: Men gathered around an International Harvester Mogul 10-20 HP tractor on a snow-covered city street. A grader is attached to the tractor to plow snow. The ...
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Workers Producing Wooden Wagon Parts at International Harvester's Weber Works

Date: 1917
Description: Workers manufacturing wooden wagon components inside International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. One worker is drilling holes in wooden pieces. The factor...
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Assembling Running Gear at Weber Works

Date: 1917
Description: African American worker assembling a wagon axle running gear while a co-worker is looking on at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. The factory wa...
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Picking Beans at a Chicago Vegetable Garden

Date: 1917
Description: Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago.
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Gardener and Sons Posing with Delivery Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Gardener Edward Schuetz and four sons posing with his delivery truck loaded with vegetables for market. The truck is not an International model.
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Man Plows Garden Lots with Mogul 10-20(?) Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Man using a Mogul 10-20(?) tractor with attached plow to plow garden lots in an urban residential neighborhood at Jackson Blvd. and 54th Street. "This outf...
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Weber Works Employee

Date: 1917
Description: Male office worker, possibly the factory superintendent, posing in front of the office door of International Harvester's Weber Works.
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Pull Power Hay Press Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester. Shows pull power hay presses featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of farmers ...
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Farmers Plow Field with Mogul 12-25 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Right side view of men plowing a field with a Mogul 12-25 tractor and a breaking plow.
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International Wholesale Fruit Delivery Truck

Date: 1917
Description: Man sitting in an International Model G delivery truck along street curb. The truck was owned by G. Dattilo & Sons, wholesalers of fruits, and featured a c...
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Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Men harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and a hemp harvester.
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Harvesting Hemp with Mogul Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Workers harvesting hemp with a Mogul 10-20 tractor and a hemp harvester.
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Hauling Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Worker hauling a wagon loaded with hemp using a an experimental four-wheel drive International 8-16 tractor.
Photograph

Harvesting Hemp with International 8-16 Tractor

Date: 1917
Description: Man and woman harvesting hemp with an International 8-16 tractor and hemp gathering and bundling machine (binder?).
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick Tillage Implements Catalog

Date: 1917
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick tillage implements. Features an illustration of a farmer in a field with a horse-drawn disk harrow.
Photograph

Taking a Break at the Side of the Road

Date: 1917
Description: Carl Peterson and his family, take a rest while driving their car on a rural dirt road. His son's name is Laurie and the girl is Muriel Peterson Jacobs. Of...
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Pig Freight Car on the Soo Line

Date: 1917
Description: Group of people standing in front of a Soo Line freight car that was used by the railroad to promote hog transportation. This photograph was donated to the...
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First Gillette Company Tire

Date: 1917
Description: Interior shot of a group of men, women and boys at the Gillette Tire Company. The Gillette Safety Tire Company was founded in Eau Claire in 1916 and the cr...

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