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Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milk Coolers

Date: 1939
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for McCormick-Deering milk coolers, "the only milk cooler with pneumatic water agitation." Includes an illustration ...
Book or Pamphlet

McCormick-Deering Milkers Catalog

Date: 1939
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick-Deering milking machines featuring cows and a milker on a blue background.
Poster

International Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1939
Description: Advertising poster urging customers to have their tractors cleaned, painted and re-lettered at a "special winter-time rate." Includes images of two Farmall...
Photograph

Commander Attilio Gatti in Africa

Date: 1939
Description: Commander Attilio Gatti poses in front of a Congolese village during his tenth expedition to Africa. The expedition was sponsored by International Harveste...
Photograph

Cocktail Hour in the Congo

Date: 1939
Description: Commander and Mrs. Attilio Gatti have cocktails during the Commander's tenth African expedition. The expedition was sponsored by International Harvester. T...
Photograph

Africans Ride in Gatti Truck

Date: 1939
Description: Native Africans ride in the back of an International truck during Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition. The Expedition was sponsored by Inter...
Photograph

Explorers Photographing in the African Congo

Date: 1939
Description: Members of Commander Atillio Gatti's tenth African expedition taking photographs from the top of an International truck. Native Africans are standing, hold...
Photograph

Elephant Rider in Africa

Date: 1939
Description: The grill of an International truck with an African man riding an elephant in the background. The truck was built by International Harvester for Commander ...
Photograph

Loading Gatti Truck

Date: 1939
Description: An African man loads an International truck. The truck was produced by International Harvester for Commander Attilio Gatti's tenth African expedition.
Photograph

International Harvester Company of Australia

Date: 1939
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Geelong Works in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Photograph

Shocks of Wheat in Field

Date: 1939
Description: Shocks of wheat lined up in a large field. There is a mountain range in the background.
Photograph

Painting a Farmall Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: A man wearing coveralls and a mask spraying paint(?) on a Farmall tractor. The man is probably a service technician or mechanic at an Interational Harvest...
Photograph

Accelerated Weather Testing Machine at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Accelerated weather testing machine used to test the durability of paint in the McCormick Works (factory) Paint Department.
Photograph

Paint Department at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: An factory worker in the Paint Department at McCormick Works discharges 100-gallon ball mills. Another man works in the background on a raised platform in ...
Photograph

Filling and Labeling Machine

Date: 1939
Description: An factory worker at McCormick Works uses an automatic filling and labeling machine.
Photograph

Testing Paint Thinner at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Two men determine the distillation range of paint thinner in the Paint Department of McCormick Works (factory).
Photograph

Paint Department at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Factory workers in the Paint Department of McCormick Works charge vehicles and pigment into large ball units.
Photograph

Automotive Enamel Testing at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Factory worker in the McCormick Works Paint Department tests the spraying qualities of automotive enamels.
Photograph

Brackelsberg Furnace at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Factory workers take samples from the 8-ton Brackelsberg Furnace at McCormick Works. The original caption reads: "Furnace has three tap spouts. Large insul...
Photograph

Tapping a Brackelsberg Furnace at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Factory workers at McCormick Works tap an 8-top Brackelsberg furnace. The original caption reads: "Control mechanism for rotating and tilting furnace, also...

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