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French Battery and Carbon Company

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of the French Battery and Carbon Company office building.
Poster

Advertising Poster for International Harvester Films

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for motion pictures [movies] shown "free to farmers and their families." Bears the text: "A Visit to a Modern Tractor Plant; The Making ...
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Office Environment

Date: 1926
Description: A businessman and his secretary at the desk in his office.
Poster

McCormick-Deering Manure Spreader Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for the McCormick-Deering No. 1 and No. 2 manure spreaders. Includes a color illustration of a farmer using a horse-drawn manure spreade...
Poster

All-Steel Threshers Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering all-steel threshers. Includes a color illustration of a threshing operation.
Poster

Indian International Harvester Engines Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for International engines. The poster was printed for use in India by the Herman Litho Company of Chicago. English text reads: "MacBeth ...
Photograph

Farmall Regular Tractor on Assembly Line

Date: 1926
Description: Factory worker driving a Farmall Regular tractor, most likely at Farmall Works in Rock Island.
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Farm Hazard: Chopping Wood

Date: 1926
Description: A man demonstrates the farm hazard of chopping wood.
Poster

McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractors Advertising Poster

Date: 1926
Description: Advertising poster for Farmall tractors. Features a color illustration, on the top half, of a man using a Farmall tractor and a Farmall cultivator in a cor...
Photograph

McCormick Works Interior

Date: 1926
Description: A factory worker works on part of a mower or grain binder while other men work in the background at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
Photograph

Man Butchering Chicken

Date: 1926
Description: A man wearing a necktie and collared shirt using an axe to butcher a chicken on a block of wood at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm. A ...
Photograph

Man Walking near Barbed Wire Fence

Date: 1926
Description: A man walks near a fallen barbed wire fence lying in the snow.
Photograph

Man Exiting Barn

Date: 1926
Description: A man holding a metal pail in each hand ducks as he is exiting a low barn door. Snow and ice are just outside the door.
Photograph

Josh Gillespie with Hampshire Gilt Pigs

Date: 1926
Description: Josh Gillespie, manager of an International Harvester Company demonstration farm, kneels to feed a corncob to a group of Hampshire gilt pigs.
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Man Feeding Pigs

Date: 1926
Description: A man is holding corncobs in his hand while feeding several pigs on an International Harvester demonstration farm.
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Man Using Corn Cultivator

Date: 1926
Description: A man is using two mules to pull a corn cultivator through a field on an International Harvester Company demonstration farm.
Photograph

Farmall Tractor with Cultivator Attachment

Date: 1926
Description: Man driving a Farmall Regular tractor with an attached cultivator to work in a field at an International Harvester demonstration farm. A fence and haystack...
Photograph

Putting Belt on Pulley

Date: 1926
Description: A man putting a tractor belt on a pulley while the machine is in operation, demonstrating a farm hazard. Taken at International Harvester's Hinsdale experi...
Photograph

Danger of Silage Cutter

Date: 1926
Description: A man is working on silage cutter knives while the machine is in operation, demonstrating a farm hazard.
Photograph

Mr. & Mrs. Houdini

Date: 1926
Description: Harry and Bess (Beatrice) Houdini in formal attire, the year of his death from acute appendicitis.

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