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Painting

Horlick's Malted Milk Factory

Date: 1914
Description: Horlick's Malted Milk Factory.
Photograph

Rockdale Creamery

Date: 1900
Description: Men and boys with wagonloads of milk at the Rockdale Creamery.
Photograph

Early Experimental IHC Tractor

Date: 06 21 1911
Description: Man sitting on an experimental lightweight tractor. The photograph was probably taken outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption i...
Photograph

No. 1 Cotton Mill

Date: 1893
Description: The No. 1 Cotton Mill. Plank sidewalk in foreground.
Photograph

Plano Works Factory

Date: 1910
Description: Buildings, a watertower, and smokestacks at International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works."
Photograph

St. Paul Flax Twine Mill

Date: 1930
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's St. Paul Flax Twine Mill.
Photograph

McCormick Reaper of 1849

Date: 02 06 1932
Description: McCormick reaper of 1849 on a road near brick buildings in Copenhagen, Denmark. There is a smokestack in the background.
Photograph

McCormick Reaper of 1849

Date: 02 06 1932
Description: Left side of McCormick reaper of 1849, sitting in a street, with two buildings, a smokestack, and trees behind.
Photograph

Crawler Tractors For National Defense

Date: 04 24 1941
Description: Factory workers pull equipment with an International TracTracTor (crawler tractor), most likely at International Harvester's Tractor Works. Original captio...
Photograph

Tractors at Milwaukee Works

Date: 1910
Description: Elevated view of tractors parked in rows in a dirt lot at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory. Factory buildings are in the background.
Photograph

Cheese Factory

Date: 
Description: View across road of a cheese factory on the side of a hill. Several people are walking down the driveway, and a car is parked nearby.
Photograph

Milwaukee Works Exterior

Date: 1907
Description: Exterior view from field of factory buildings at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works.
Postcard

Adell Pea-Canning Company

Date: 06 30 1909
Description: Photographic postcard of the Adell Canning Company, used for canning peas. View of canning buildings with an open field in the foreground. Caption reads: "...
Photograph

Cheese Factory

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of a two-story cheese factory. The building features a set of stairs leading to the second-floor entrance and three chimneys. There is a large pil...
Photograph

Buildings Along Railroad Track

Date: 
Description: Railroad tracks pass by a hotel and restaurant and the Bull Durham Smoking Tobacco Factory.
Photograph

Cheese Factory

Date: 
Description: A man poses outdoors in front of a cheese factory. Behind him next to the building is a large wooden tub on stilts, perhaps for holding water.
Photograph

Creamery with Chimney

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior view across road of a creamery. The front of the creamery has a roof supported with columns over the elevated driveway and loading dock for delive...
Photograph

Deerfield Creamery Company

Date: 1926
Description: Exterior view of the Deerfield Creamery Company. Two cars are parked in the lot in front of the factory. There are storage tanks in the background on the r...
Photograph

Widmer Cheese

Date: 1972
Description: "Widmer Cheese was a campaign stop for New York Mayor John Lindsay as he looked for votes for president."
Photograph

Baker Canning Smokestacks

Date: 1954
Description: "The long lens captures the Baker Canning smokestacks, and water tower, on film."

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