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Deering Works seen from Diversey Avenue

Date: 1919
Description: Deering Works factory seen across the waterfront from Diversey Avenue. In the foreground is a street and sidewalk with the sign "horse vehicles keep to rig...
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Hamilton Works Factory Building and Products

Date: 1919
Description: Various International Harvester trucks and tractors, including the Titan 10-20 and Mogul 8-16, parked in front of the company's Hamilton Works in Hamilton,...
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IHC Plano Works Baseball Team

Date: 1919
Description: Baseball players and bat boys for the International Harvester Plano Works baseball team. The team was part of the Harvester league.
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Crowd Outside Deering(?) Works

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of hundreds of people, possibly factory workers, gathered to hear speeches outside International Harvester's Deering(?) Works. The event appe...
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International Harvester Dealership Storefront

Date: 1919
Description: View across unpaved road toward two men standing on a boardwalk in front of an International Harvester dealership owned by Downing and Roth. The window has...
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Workers and Steam Shovel in the Mud

Date: 1919
Description: Workers standing outdoors in the mud with a steam shovel. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin S...
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Men Standing Posing on Flooded Rail Line

Date: 1919
Description: Men standing on the exposed portion of a flooded railroad track as a swiftly moving torrent of water is rushing past. Benham was a "company town" created b...
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Milwaukee Harvester Works

Date: 1919
Description: Panorama of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory building. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company before 1902.
Postcard

Sullivan Condensed Milk Company

Date: 1919
Description: View across railroad tracks towards the Sullivan Condensed Milk Company. There is a train in front of the factory building. Caption reads: "Sullivan Conden...
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Boat in Harbor

Date: 1919
Description: View of the harbor.
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International Harvester Branch House

Date: 1919
Description: International Harvester Branch House. Signs on the building advertise agricultural implements, motor trucks and Kerosene engines and tractors. Many small t...
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Peoria Branch House

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view of International Harvester Branch House.
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Company House at Benham

Date: 1919
Description: A young boy standing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham.
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Company House and Family in Benham

Date: 1919
Description: A family of five posing in front of an International Harvester "company house" in the coal mining town of Benham.
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Chattanooga Plow Works

Date: 1919
Description: Elevated view of the Chattanooga Plow Works. The Eagle Saw Works building is on the right in the background. There are billboards along a street in the cen...
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Chattanooga Plow Works

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view of a loading (?) area of the Chattanooga Plow Works, with multiple ladders leaning against the building. There are wagons on the ground below...
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Chattanooga Plow Works

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view of the Chattanooga Plow Works. Lettering on the building reads: "Chattanooga Plow Company." The photograph was likely taken around the time o...
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Chattanooga Evaporator

Date: 1919
Description: Evaporator manufactured at the Chattanooga Plow Works.
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Patten Manufacturing Company

Date: 1919
Description: Exterior view of the Patten Manufacturing Company.
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Two Men at Work with Cement

Date: 1919
Description: Two men, possibly farmers, work with a wheelbarrow, shovel and cement mixer. One man is dressed in overalls, and both have hats and gloves.

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