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International Harvester Building on Michigan Avenue

Date: 1945
Description: International Harvester Building looking north on Michigan Avenue.
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Marinette Harbor

Date: 1945
Description: Harbor in Marinette at sunset. Boats are docked at the sides of a canal. Smoke pours from smokestacks of a facility in the distance.
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Steam Locomotive Pulling Crane at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Steam locomotive moving an overhead crane used to lay rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. One man is standing on the right, and another man i...
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Crane Laying Rails for Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Workers and a steam railroad crane laying rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine.
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Miners at Work inside Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Two miners at work with shovel and hammer inside International Harvester's Hawkins Mine.
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Hawkins Mine Employee

Date: 1945
Description: Worker at a Hawkins Mine machine shop checking a measurement on a large casting under a trouble light. Hawkins Mine was a subsidiary of International Harve...
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Working on Heavy Machinery

Date: 1945
Description: Man in protective gloves and masked helmet against heat and flame works on heavy machinery at the Falk Corporation, known for production of industrial gear...
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Alexander Legge

Date: 1945
Description: Portrait of Alexander Legge (1866-1933). Legge was president of International Harvester Company from 1922 to 1929. He was vice chairman of the War Industri...
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Stamping Hams

Date: 1945
Description: Women are stamping hams with the USDA grade stamp and the Oscar Mayer label as the hams move by on an assembly line.
Print

IH Prototype Dealership Building

Date: 1945
Description: Front cover of an International Harvester booklet showing "exterior and interior visualizations" of prototype dealership buildings. The cover features a co...
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Loading a 20mm Cannon

Date: 1945
Description: Original caption reads: "A loaded magazine is mounted on a 20mm cannon in one of the test stands at Hazel Park Firing Range." Frederick Viator is the gunne...
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Dodgeville Mine

Date: 1945
Description: A lead and zinc mine near Dodgeville, Wisconsin.
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Welder at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: A welder wearing overalls holding a protective mask in front of his face while working at Hawkins Mine.
Poster

Cutaway View of Farmall Tractor Chart

Date: 1945
Description: An International Harvester Farmall chart featuring a color illustration cutaway view, with labels, of a Farmall tractor.
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Wartime Worker

Date: 1945
Description: Employee of the Consolidated Paper Company, probably its Plastics Division during World War II.
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Woman and Man with Tractor

Date: 1945
Description: A woman is sitting behind the wheel of a McCormick-Deering Farmall Cub tractor for a demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm....
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Hinsdale Demonstration

Date: 1945
Description: A man demonstrates a McCormick-Deering cotton picker under a tent on the Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Equipment on Display

Date: 1945
Description: Men examiinge farm equipment, farm tractors and crawler tractors (TracTracTor) on display at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Men Examine International TD-24 Crawler

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men examine an International TD-24 crawler (TracTracTor) near a tent at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.
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Men Examine Cotton Picker

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men gather around a cotton picker on display at International Harvester's Hinsdale experimental farm.

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