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Milwaukee Works Foundry Operations

Date: 11 04 1935
Description: Worker pours molten metal into a mold for a TracTracTor (crawler tractor) main frame at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works foundry.
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Stunning Cattle

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Description: A packing house worker demonstrates the revolutionary Thor air-powered cattle stunner that was called the first successful pneumatic stunning tool for the ...
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Aerial View of Evansville Works

Date: 1947
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Evansville Works factory complex.
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Aerial View of Evansville Works

Date: 1947
Description: Aerial view of International Harvester's Evansville Works factory complex. The Evansville Works produced refrigerators, freezers and air conditioners.
Print

Marshall's Rut Leveler and Snow-Plow Advertisment

Date: 1874
Description: Advertisement for Calvin Marshall's Patent Rut Leveler and Snow-Plow or Road Breaker.
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Emerson-Brantingham Factory

Date: 02 25 1924
Description: Slightly elevated view of machinery and machine parts in a large room. The machinery is belt driven from overhead. Light is flooding in from the windows an...
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Emerson-Brantingham Factory

Date: 02 25 1924
Description: Stored in a large room are rows of tractors. Along the left and right corner are stacked beams. Light streams in from skylights in the ceiling. The factory...
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Duplex Hole-Digging Machine

Date: 1938
Description: Three men - one in work clothes and the other two men wearing suits and hats - looking down into a hole near an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tra...
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Men on Tractor Shoe Chain Assembly

Date: 1942
Description: Factory workers assemble "shoe chains" on an International crawler tractor (TracTracTor) at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Tractor Assembly Line at Tractor Works

Date: 1946
Description: Farmall A tractors on an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Man Carburizing Transmission Gears at Tractor Works

Date: 1943
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Men Painting Crawler Tractors at Tractor Works

Date: 1943
Description: Factory workers painting crawler tractors (TracTracTors) at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Crawler Tractors at Tractor Works

Date: 1959
Description: Elevated view of a man walking down a dirt aisle between rows of International Harvester crawler tractors (TracTracTors) in a factory - most likely Tractor...
Print

Althouse, Wheeler & Co. Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of the Althouse, Wheeler & Company of Waupun, Wisconsin, manufacturers of the Althouse & Raymond Wind Mill and the Waupun Patent Premium Pump. I...
Book or Pamphlet

International Harvester Stationary Gasoline Engine

Date: 10 08 1904
Description: Front cover of a International Harvester Company's Stationary Gasoline Engine manual. Three-quarter view of engine in the lower center. Front cover reads: ...
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Madison-Kipp Corporation

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Description: View across field towards structures in front of the Madison-Kipp Corporation building, pictured in the background. Its smokestack is visible to the right ...
Drawing

Gisholt Closed by G&L

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Description: Political flyer by Sid that reads: "Dedicated to high salaried no dividend corporations." Below is an illustration of a pig wearing a suit and tie, holdin...
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Horse-drawn Disc Harrow

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Description: Horse-drawn harrow on display by the railroad yard platform at the first machine works plant of Gisholt Machine Company, located at the 1400-block of East ...

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