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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers assembling mowers in the Mower Room of the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 1902. I... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers operating belt-driven machinery in a machine shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers machining parts with belt-driven lathes, presses, and other machinery in a machine shop at McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McC... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers hand painting hundreds of McCormick mower main frames hanging in the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Mach... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers removing mower wheels from casts inside Foundry no. 1 at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine comp... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers pinstriping hundreds of binder frames inside at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company befor... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers handling mower wheels during painting process in the mower wheel paint shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick H... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Dock workers preparing boxed farm machines for loading onto a ship at the McCormick Reaper Works dock. The boxes contain McCormick Daisy reapers, New 4 mow... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Two workers among hundreds of hay rake wheels stacked on a shipping platform next to rail cars at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the ... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers in the metal finishing room at the McCormick Reaper Works. In 1902 the factory became part of the International Harvester Company. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Worker painting wagon trucks at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works in Auburn Park. The factory was owned by the Weber Wagon Company until 1904, wh... |
| Date: | 1973 |
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| Description: | Assembly line worker greasing a three point arm link on a Farmall 66 series tractor - possibly a 1066. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Southwest panorama of the McCormick Reaper Works factory and rail yard as seen across a canal. Workers can be seen unloading wood. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers assembling parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory and office workers sitting in the cafeteria at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Male and female workers inspecting(?) parts at International Harvester's West Pullman Works. |
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| Description: | Workers waiting in line at a soup kitchen in International Harvester's Deering Works. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company before 1902. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Female workers inserting wooden slats into canvas for grain binders in the McCormick Works Twine Mill. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Ma... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Female worker using a drill press in a window display at International Harvester's employment office in the company's Michigan Avenue annex. The display ce... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory worker at International Harvester's Weber Works working on wooden wagon wheel hubs. |
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