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| Description: | Color photograph of an International Diesel TD-24 crawler tractor with a sheepsfoot roller used for road construction on the south side of Dorena Lake Dam. |
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| Description: | Workers processing bundles of sisal fibre (fiber) at a factory or mill in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Comp... |
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| Description: | Workers processing sisal at a factory in the Philippines. The factory likely was owned by the International Harvester Company as part of its twine producti... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for an International TD-24 diesel crawler tractor ("TracTracTor") with "planet power steering." The ad shows two men with ... |
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| Description: | Factory worker tightening capscrews on a Farmall Cub engine with an electric high frequency wrench at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers are attaching a Farmall Cub engine to the clutch housing, while a third worker is attaching brake pedals. Taken on the assembly line at... |
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| Description: | Freshly painted Farmall Cub tractor hanging in a paint oven at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory worker making final adjustments to a Farmall Cub tractor before entering a paint spray booth at International Harvester's Louisville Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Farmers using a McCormick-Deering WR-9 tractor to haul a trailer loaded with timber. The words "rice field special" are on the tractor. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Three women in the home economics model kitchen at International Harvester's Evansville Works. Zelma Purchase is wrapping a food product at the table. Lori... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline towards the opposite shoreline towards the Buettner mill on the left, and the river with a dam, on the right. In the backgroun... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Large brick kiln-like structure in field. Built in 1876, the blast furnace was used to salvage additional lead from the slag of 18 area furnaces operating ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Hough Payloader with buggy being loaded by another machine. According to the original caption, the machines were the property of the American Agricultural ... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Center panel of the completed mural at the Wisconsin Historical Society. The image depicts wheat farming, one of the state's earliest and largest industrie... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of International Harvester's Wisconsin Steel Works. |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Factory workers weigh a large bale of Sisal fiber (fibre) at an International Harvester twine mill. Original caption reads: "Weighing the bales of Sisal fi... |
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| Description: | Factory workers stack bales of twine in a warehouse at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
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| Description: | Three men stack bales of sisal fiber. Original caption reads: "Storing the Sisal fiber at the McCormick Twine Mill." |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers break bales of sisal in a warehouse. Caption on photograph reads: "Breaking the bales before putting them through the blending machines... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Men use machines to blend fiber for binder twine at an International Harvester twine mill (most likely the McCormick Twine Mill). Original caption reads: "... |
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