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Man Demonstrates the Bates Steel Mule Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Man pulling a tractor plow with a Bates Steel Mule Model D tractor at what appears to be an agricultural exhibition or fair. The Bates Steel Mule was manuf...
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Moline Universal Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Man operating a Moline Universal tractor. Another man is standing in the left foreground.
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Rockford Tractor

Date: 1918
Description: Man operating a Rockford(?) tractor with attached cultivator. The original caption reads: "Another competitive tractor, probably the Rockford. This tracto...
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War Worker

Date: 1918
Description: An unidentified woman who worked at the Four Wheel Drive factory in Clintonville assembling trucks during World War I. She is wearing a special uniform fo...
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Four Women and Truck

Date: 1918
Description: Pictured here are four of the women who joined the work force at the Four Wheel Drive Company in Clintonville in order to build trucks for the American and...
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Men Examining Grain Binder in Showroom

Date: 1918
Description: A crowd of men examining a McCormick grain binder in the showroom of a dealership, or other International Harvester building.
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Ehrman's Delicatessen

Date: 1918
Description: Ehrman's Delicatessen, located at 300 State Street, on the corner of State and Henry Streets. One man is standing on the sidewalk, and another man is stand...
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John Farrington, Ralph Sucher, and Philip La Follette

Date: 1918
Description: Studio portrait of, left to right: John Farrington, Ralph Sucher, and Philip La Follette. The photograph bears an inscription from Philip to his mother, Be...
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Indian Burial Ground

Date: 1918
Description: Burial grounds in La Pointe. A man is standing in the center with his back turned to the camera.
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War Departmental Trial

Date: 1918
Description: Captain Alexander E. Williams of the War Department testing the experimental truck that the Four Wheel Drive Company hoped to manufacture for the army. In ...
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Training World War I Mechanics

Date: 1918
Description: Training classes for University of Wisconsin student cadets in the repair of automobiles and trucks during World War I.
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Cyrus McCormick III in Uniform with Nettie McCormick

Date: 1918
Description: Lieutenant Cyrus McCormick III (1890-1970), in uniform, poses with his grandmother Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923) at Walden, the Lake Forest estate of...
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Harvesting Wheat with a Cradle

Date: 1918
Description: A farmer using a cradle to harvest wheat in a field. Farm buildings are in the far background.
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Deering Harvester-Thresher

Date: 1918
Description: A team of horses is pulling farmers and a Deering harvester-thresher (combine) in a field.
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Deering Works

Date: 1918
Description: Exterior view of the Fullerton Avenue side of the Deering Works (factory) building. Two cars are parked just inside the factory gate. Before 1902, the buil...
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Akron Works

Date: 1918
Description: Two men work on truck parts on a workbench at International Harvester's Akron Works (factory).
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Tractor Demonstration

Date: 1918
Description: A small group of women and men gather around a tent with a sign boasting of satisfied users of the Titan 10-20 Kerosene tractor. Another man is sitting in ...
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International Model F Truck Used at Stock Farm

Date: 1918
Description: Two men load cattle onto an International Model F (or 31) truck operated by the Campbell Brother's Highland Stock Farm.
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International Model F Moving Truck

Date: 1918
Description: Two men standing near an International Model F (or 31) truck operated by Forest Monger Public Transfer and Storage. The truck is parked in front of the Int...
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International Model F Moving Truck

Date: 1918
Description: Two men with an International Harvester Model F (or 31) truck piled high with household items. The truck was operated by Clark's Dray-Storage and Long Dist...

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