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International Truck Carrying Female Employees

Date: 1918
Description: International G-1(?) truck carrying International Harvester Company women workers during World War I. The truck is decorated with flags and shields bearing...
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International Model G Trucks Hauling Coal

Date: 1918
Description: Two International two ton model G trucks hauling coal for the H.A. Robinson Fuel Co. A sign above the company's office building reads "gravity coal pockets...
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Automobiles Parked Along Rural Road

Date: 1918
Description: Automobiles, including a Ford runabout, parked along a rural dirt road for an International Harvester Agricultural Extension Department short course and ma...
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International 8-16 Tractor Pulling McCormick Binder

Date: 1918
Description: Man pulling a McCormick binder with an International 8-16 tractor.
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Wheel Spoke Stockroom at International Harvester's Weber Works

Date: 1918
Description: Workers handling spokes for wagon wheels at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. The factory was located at Auburn Park and was owned by the Weber ...
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Saw Blade Shop at Weber Wagon Works

Date: 1918
Description: Saws blades and machinery in a saw blade sharpening and setting shop at International Harvester's Weber Works. The factory was located at Auburn Park and w...
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Assembling a Wagon at Weber Works

Date: 1918
Description: Men working on a wagon truck inside International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. A completed Weber wagon and a large American flag are in the background. T...
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Women Machining Cream Separator Parts at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1918
Description: Female factory workers machining parts for cream separators and International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. An original caption identifies them as "Milwauke...
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African American Farmers with Horse-Drawn Plows

Date: 1918
Description: Two African American farmers in a field operating horse-drawn walking plows.
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Man Delivering Lumber with International Model H Truck

Date: 1918
Description: African American driver delivering a load of lumber with an International Model H semi-truck. The truck was owned by Farrar Lumber Company. The company was...
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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...
Book or Pamphlet

Feed Your Hungry Crops

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an "educational" pamphlet published by International Harvester to promote the use of manure spreaders, fertilizers and lime spreaders. Features an...
Book or Pamphlet

International Ensilage Cutters Catalog

Date: 1918
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International ensilage cutters, featuring an illustration of farmers using an ensilage cutter to fill a silo. At the bo...
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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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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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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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