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Meat Market Display

Date: 1939
Description: Woman worker wearing a butcher's apron, poses holding a ham, in a meat market with Easter ham display.
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Workers Fill Canisters with IHC Red Light Truck Paint

Date: 1939
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...
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Workers Test Paint Quality at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Workers testing paint for physical constancy, viscosity and weight per gallon in the Paint Department of International Harvester's McCormick Works. Cans of...
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Workers Box Cans of Paint at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Paint Department workers boxing cans of "Motor Truck and Tractor Synthetic Enamel Paint" for shipment from the International Harvester's McCormick Works. T...
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Red Dot Potato Chip Bagging Machine

Date: 1939
Description: A woman operates the bagging machine at the Red Dot potato chip factory.
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Vernon and Irene Portrayed by Fred and Ginger

Date: 1939
Description: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the motion picture, "The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle" (RKO, 1939). Although Astaire and Rogers were ideally cast to...
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Red Dot Potato Chip Plant

Date: 1939
Description: Man working with machinery at the Red Dot Potato Chip plant.
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Kresge's Baby Shop

Date: 1939
Description: Elevated interior view of the baby department at Kresge's store.
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Allis-Chalmers Model B Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: Studio photograph of an Allis-Chalmers model B tractor.
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IH Model 200 Power Unit and Model 1-b Hammer Mill

Date: 1939
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...
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Schwartz House Interior

Date: 1939
Description: Interior view of the Schwartz house.
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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...
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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.
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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 ...
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Filling and Labeling Machine

Date: 1939
Description: An factory worker at McCormick Works uses an automatic filling and labeling machine.
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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).
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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.
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Automotive Enamel Testing at McCormick Works

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