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| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two workers filling and sealing canisters with light truck red no. 50 paint inside the Paint Department of International Harvester's McCormick Works. The M... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Paint Department workers boxing cans of "Motor Truck and Tractor Synthetic Enamel Paint" for shipment from the International Harvester's McCormick Works. T... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A group of workers grinding fertilizer with a power hammer mill. Original captions reads: "The Fish Meal Company of Fernandina, Florida, uses this Interna... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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 ... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | An factory worker at McCormick Works uses an automatic filling and labeling machine. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Two men determine the distillation range of paint thinner in the Paint Department of McCormick Works (factory). |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the Paint Department of McCormick Works charge vehicles and pigment into large ball units. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory worker in the McCormick Works Paint Department tests the spraying qualities of automotive enamels. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at McCormick Works tap an 8-top Brackelsberg furnace. The original caption reads: "Control mechanism for rotating and tilting furnace, also... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at McCormick Works charge an 8-ton Brackelsberg Furnace. The original caption reads: "10 charging buckets holding 1,600 lbs. each are moved... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A factory worker stands next to the battery of roller bearing tumble mills at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A line of workers standing along tables at Chain O'Lakes duck farm. The workers appear to be plucking ducks. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man from the Material Transit Company drives an International D-50 dump truck to unload what appears to be gravel or rocks. There are houses on a hill in... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Four International PD-80 Diesel power units compounded on a drill rig owned by Taubert & McKee of Fort Worth, Texas, drilling a 4,500 foot hole two miles f... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | Three men stand on a platform near two butane-operated International PA-100 power units. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man standing near an International U-7 power unit used to operate a drum hoist which pulls cars up a 500 foot slope from a mine. |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A miner fastening a chain to a mining car in order to be pulled from the shaft by a drum hoist. The drum hoist was powered by an International U-7 power un... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | View from street of a uniformed man standing near the back of an International D-30 truck owned by Hill's Dry Goods Company parked in a residential area. T... |
| Date: | 1939 |
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| Description: | A man stands on the bed of an International DR-500 truck while shoveling coal onto a conveyor operated by another man on the ground. The truck was owned by... |
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