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McCormick-Deering Calendar

Date: 1920
Description: Promotional circular showing the color illustration for a forthcoming farm implement line calendar. Illustration is an artistic rendering of a young woman ...
Photograph

Worker Transporting Parts at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1920
Description: Worker using a motorized shop cart ("shop mule") to transport parts between buildings at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The cart was manufactur...
Photograph

Worker at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1920
Description: Worker assembling a tank at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902.
Photograph

Worker Forms Steel Rod at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works

Date: 1920
Description: Worker forming the tip of a steel rod at International Harvester Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company until 1902.
Photograph

Engine Assembly Line at IHC Tractor Works

Date: 1920
Description: Workers assembling engine components and tightening head bolts along an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
Photograph

Tractor Works 8-16 Tractor Assembly Line

Date: 1920
Description: Factory workers assembling International 8-16 tractors on an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
Photograph

Nettie Fowler McCormick

Date: 1920
Description: Portrait of Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), wife of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), late in life.
Photograph

Factory Works with Agricultural Equipment Parts

Date: 1920
Description: Factory workers standing with cartloads of agricultural parts inside a workshop, most likely at International Harvester's Osborne Works (later known as Aub...
Photograph

International Harvester Building

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of the International Harvester building, as seen from the northwest. Lake Michigan is in the background.
Photograph

Graphic Artist in Office with Drawings

Date: 1920
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...
Poster

International Disk Drill Poster

Date: 1920
Description: South American advertising poster for the International disk drills (grain drills) featuring color illustrations of the implement. Printed by Walter M. Car...
Poster

Deering Hay Press

Date: 1920
Description: South American advertising poster for the Deering hay presses. Includes a color illustration of farmers with a horse-powered hay press near a large haystac...
Poster

Twine

Date: 1920
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick, Deering, or International Twine. "Don't blame your binder for the misdeeds of weak, uneven, cheap twine." The ad was ma...
Poster

International Repairs Poster

Date: 1920
Description: Advertising poster for International repair parts. Includes the text "genuine IHC repairs are the only ones made from original patterns."
Poster

Genuine Baldwin Chains

Date: 1920
Description: Advertising poster for Baldwin Chains. "Baldwin - it's the Chain that stands the Strain." Includes an photograph of a man driving an International Harveste...
Photograph

Experimental Tractor with Attached Cultivator

Date: 1920
Description: Engineering photograph of an experimental, reversible, early Farmall (?) tractor with attached cultivator.
Photograph

Harvester Press Offices

Date: 1920
Description: Workers completing paperwork in the offices of Harvester Press, International Harvester's in-house print shop.
Poster

International Kerosene Engine Advertising Poster

Date: 1920
Description: Advertising poster for International kerosene engines. Inclues the text: "valve-in-head construction, built-in magneto, removable cylinder liner, enclosed ...
Postcard

Case Plant

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view of the J. I. Case Plow Works. Caption reads: "The J. I. Case Plant, Racine, Wis."
Photograph

Factory Worker at Plano Works

Date: 1920
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as the "West Pullman Works."

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