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| Description: | Workers assembling engine components and tightening head bolts along an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Factory workers assembling International 8-16 tractors on an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the International Harvester building, as seen from the northwest. Lake Michigan is in the background. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | International Harvester advertising artist sitting at his desk in a studio office with a wistful look on his face. Graphics from Deering brand advertisemen... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Factory worker at International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as the "West Pullman Works." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Industrial safety poster or sign illustrated with a cream separator. The poster advocates employee safety at International Harvester's Weber Works. The sig... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a window of the International Harvester offices on Michigan Avenue showing Grant Park. Company employees have written their department n... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a window of the International Harvester offices on Michigan Avenue showing Grant Park. Company employees have written their department n... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hemp or sisal fiber piles on the floor of International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill as it is processed through spreading machines. The mill was locate... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the Parrett motor cultivator, featuring an illustration of the machine at center flanked by illustrations of a farmstead, and a man using... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A highly detailed design for a necklace featuring a large green stone and two teardrop shape stones hanging below it. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A drawing of a design for a buckle shaped brooch featuring blue square cut stones. The two halves of the design represent options III and IV to be offered ... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored drawing on black cardboard of a design for a brooch in the form of a butterfly. The materials are not specified but the drawing depicts multic... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored drawing on grey cardboard depicting a design for a necklace. Series of long and short links alternate with white or yellow stones throughout t... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored drawing of a design for a ring, done on thin brown paper mounted on cardboard. The design depicts a black stone carved with initials mounted i... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored drawing of an intricate design for a pendant. The design features multiple stones, possibly diamonds. There is a small hinge at the lower left... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | A drawing on beige paper of a design for a pendant. The design features two teardrop shaped pearls, each suspended from a foliate ring with one ring suspen... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hand-colored drawing, on paper, of a design for a brooch. The brooch features a central rectangular plaque with a colored floral design on black. There are... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | "'Pop Sohner' drives one of the early Farmall tractors off the end of the assembly line back in the 1920's. He pioneered the production of this all-purpose... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Railroad yard at McCormick Works. A man is looking out the window of the locomotive on the right, and there are stacks of lumber on the small, open railroa... |
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