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Assembling Farm Wagons at Weber Works

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Description: Workers assembling wagon chassis at International Harvester's Weber Works in Auburn Park. The factory was owned by the Weber Wagon Company until 1904 when ...
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McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers stand at tables while working to assemble farm equipment at the McCormick Reaper Works factory.
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Factory Workers at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Male workers standing at stations positioned along a wall of windows inside the McCormick Reaper Works. A belt-driven power system is suspended from the ce...
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Man Standing on a Railroad Loading Dock

Date: 08 17 1906
Description: A man is standing on a railroad loading dock near a factory building, probably the McCormick Works. He is dressed in dark pants, a light-colored shirt, sus...
Book or Pamphlet

Plano Manufacturing Company Advertisement

Date: 1900
Description: Advertisement from catalog featuring an illustration of the Jones Chain Mower, and a man using it in a field with a team of horses. Around the border are i...
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View of Manufacturing Area at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men working in a manufacturing area of the factory. Belt-driven machinery is attached to the high ceiling of the brick factory. Barrels are sitting on the...
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Mower Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Mower set up on the cobblestones near a factory. In the background is a fence, and a small building, perhaps a guardhouse.
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Dump Rake Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Dump rake set up on the cobblestones near a factory. In the background is a fence, and a small building, perhaps a guardhouse.
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McCormick Binder Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: McCormick binder set up on the cobblestones near a factory. In the background are railroad cars on railroad tracks in front of a fence. Behind the fence ar...
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Daisy Reaper Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Daisy Reaper set up on the cobblestones in front of a brick factory building. In the background on the right is a horse standing near the curb.
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Mower Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Mower set up on the snow-covered cobblestones in front of a brick factory building. In the background a man is standing on the wooden sidewalk near the doo...
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Ship at Dock at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of ship at a dock. Railroad tracks are in the foreground near low factory and storage buildings. The name on the back of the ship reads: "Nor...
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Molds for Machine Parts

Date: 02 15 1906
Description: Close-up of machine parts lying on a board on top of a barrel at McCormick Works.
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Disk Harrow at McCormick Works

Date: 06 11 1906
Description: Disk harrow indoors. Barrels and parts are in the background.
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Disk Harrow at McCormick Works

Date: 06 12 1906
Description: View from rear of a disk harrow indoors on factory floor.
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Drill in Work Area at McCormick Works

Date: 1906
Description: View of a drill in a work area near two large, open windows. A large pile of metal nuts are on the floor on the right, and more metal nuts are in barrels u...
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Columbus Wagon Box at McCormick Works

Date: 04 1907
Description: A Columbus wagon box set up on two barrels outdoors at McCormick Works.
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Lumber Yard

Date: 06 1907
Description: Lumber stacks at McCormick Works. There are railroad tracks in the foreground, and a gate and a fence on the right.
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Lumber Yard

Date: 06 1907
Description: Lumber in stacks outdoors at McCormick Works. A sign on a pipe reads: "Shut Off Main South.
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View Overhead Paint (?) Area

Date: 
Description: View of overhead paint (?) area at McCormick Works.

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