Search the Wisconsin Historical Society's collections
Filter: Categories of Wisconsin Historical Images
Filter: FULL_DATE of 1947
Filter: Community of Chicago
Filter: Subject of industries
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Workers setting type inside the Harvester Press typesetting room. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Female factory workers handle parts in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A factory worker at West Pullman Works stands behind a counter surrounded by metal pieces in the ball bearing plant. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A female factory worker machines a part in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A male and a female factory worker operating machines in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A female factory worker operates a machine in the ball bearing plant at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A female factory worker operates a machine consisting of multiple gears while seated at a table at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Male and female factory workers sitting and standing along an assembly line at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Male and female factory workers use drills or drivers on metal parts at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A factory worker handles metal parts at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| 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 |
|---|---|
| Description: | A crew of men laying sewer pipe with a Hough payloader. Original caption states: "Hough Payloader laying sewer pipe sections weighing 200 lbs each. Equipme... |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | An International KB-3 truck used by the Petersen-Lund Paint Company is parked along the curb in front of a block of commercial buildings. A man on the side... |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Equipment on display in the Industrial Power Exhibit for Allied Equipment Manufacturers at International Harvester's Melrose Park Works. The foreground fea... |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | Equipment on display in the Industrial Power Exhibit for Allied Equipment Manufacturers at International Harvester's Melrose Park Works. Equipment includes... |
| Date: | 1947 |
|---|---|
| Description: | View of right side of an International K-5 truck with a crane attachment on display at Melrose Park Works as part of the Industrial Power Exhibit for Allie... |
If you didn't find the material you searched for, our Library Reference Staff can help.
Call our reference desk at 608-264-6535 or email us at: