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| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Workers assembling crawler tractor (TracTractor) frames at the beginning of an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory was lo... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Workers setting type inside the Harvester Press typesetting room. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | The "Carousel Bear" sitting astride a Farmall Cub tractor at the Harvester Farm exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers handle parts in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker is sitting on a stool to work with metal parts in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A factory worker at West Pullman Works stands behind a counter surrounded by metal pieces in the ball bearing plant. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker machines a part in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A male and a female factory worker operating machines in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker operates a machine in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A female factory worker operates a machine consisting of multiple gears while seated at a table at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers sitting and standing along an assembly line at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers use drills or drivers on metal parts at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A factory worker handles metal parts at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A man working with metal parts as they are carried in baskets along a conveyor suspended from the ceiling at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers at West Pullman Works wrap items in paper and package them in boxes as they roll down a conveyor belt. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Sign for International Harvester's Melrose Park Works (factory). The sign includes the IH logo and advertises diesel engines and crawler tractors (TracTrac... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A blind(?) man operates a piece of machinery behind a table in a display booth at the "blind veterans show." The booth is labeled "International Harvester'... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | A man views a model of an early header. Original caption reads: "This display of the 'header,' a machine that preceded today's modern combine, brings back ... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large crowd at International Harvester's "100 Years in Chicago" celebration, held at Soldier Field. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of various power units and tractors on display at Soldier Field for International Harvester "100 Years in Chicago" celebration. Original capt... |
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