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| Date: | 06 20 1935 |
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| Description: | Two African American workers use McCormick-Deering I-12 industrial tractors with attached wagons to haul cargo at a Jacksonville rail station. The men wor... |
| Date: | 11 29 1948 |
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| Description: | Twenty-five members of the "Negro Farmers of America" tour a crawler tractor (TracTracTor) assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The fa... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | African American farmer pulling a trailer with a Farmall Cub tractor on McQueen Smith Farms. The trailer is loaded with large sacks, and a child is sitting... |
| Date: | 07 29 1936 |
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| Description: | Workers pouring alloy into a stream of iron in the foundry of International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory was located at 2600 West 1st Blvd. |
| Date: | 05 16 1989 |
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| Description: | Sixth grade class members show off their trophy for being "no-hitters." The plaque reads, "Hitting always hurts." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | African American worker assembling a wagon axle running gear while a co-worker is looking on at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. The factory wa... |
| Date: | 1948 |
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| Description: | Mal Whitfield approaches the finish line of a track race at the University of Wisconsin Stadium. |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | A winter scene with excited children on a toboggan. |
| Date: | 08 25 1967 |
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| Description: | Construction workers enjoying a beer after pouring concrete for a bridge structure. |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | View of an African American farmer cultivating a cotton field with a stage I McCormick Farmall Super MD tractor. The tractor is equipped with a cultivator ... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | An African American worker driving a partially assembled International 8-16 tractor on an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Another... |
| Date: | 11 10 1926 |
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| Description: | Workers, including some African Americans, assembling mower gear housings along an assembly line at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory ... |
| Date: | 10 04 1963 |
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| Description: | A man surveys the damage to his car, and the aged tree that toppled onto it. |
| Date: | 06 14 1921 |
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| Description: | Farmers harvesting wheat with an International 8-16 HP kerosene tractor and two Deering seven foot binders on the farm of W.P. Ridley in Maury County. Thre... |
| Date: | 06 20 1935 |
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| Description: | African American workers load barrels of freight onto a Southeastern Express rail car at a Jacksonville rail station. One worker is operating an Internati... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | The machine shop at the "Normal School for Negroes" or the Tuskegee Institute in action. The students are diligently working at the machinery in the shop. |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Johnnie Tillmon addressing a Mother's Day March on Washington, ca. 1968 or 1969. George Wiley is sitting directly behind her, on the left. Ethel Kennedy is... |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Harold F. McCormick family, farm laborers, and various animals on the Walnut Grove estate at Raphine, Virginia. Harold McCormick was the son of Cyrus Hall ... |
| Date: | 09 26 1967 |
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| Description: | Young children listen to a story through earphones as a teacher's aid looks on. |
| Date: | 12 11 1965 |
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| Description: | Boy inserting coin into a gumball vending machine in anticipation of a sweet treat. |
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