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Female Employees Operating Machines at IHC's Chatham Works

Date: 1944
Description: Slightly elevated view of female workers operating machines at International Harvester's Chatham Works in Ontario, Canada. The factory was originally owned...
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Boxed Artillery Cart Ready for Shipment

Date: 05 17 1918
Description: Boxed 240 mm mortar cart ready for shipment to the U.S. military from International Harvester's McCormick Works. Includes a trench mortar barrel. A man is ...
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Erecting Generators in Power House at Power Dam

Date: 08 04 1914
Description: An interior view of the power house at the Prairie du Sac dam, showing assembly of the generators, identified by the manufacturer, the Allis-Chalmers Compa...
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10,000 Pound Bridge with Trolley

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Description: Interior of a factory with a Pawling and Harnischfeger bridge and trolley.
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Tree Surgeon Truck

Date: 1939
Description: An International D-300 truck owned by P. Hansling & Son Hartford Forestry Company Tree Surgeons is parked in the drive of a home with a large chimney. A ma...
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Man Driving Steamroller

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Description: A man is sitting at the wheel of a long steamroller parked in a gravel lot with a brick building in the background.
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White Way Laundry Shop Mule

Date: 05 19 1938
Description: A man uses a Hebard shop mule owned by White Way Laundry to haul three-wheeled bins of bagged laundry. The shop mule, powered by an International P-12 powe...
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Metal Finishing Room at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men working in the metal finishing room of the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Metal parts are stacked on the floor and the room is suppor...
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Stationary Engines On Skids

Date: 1917
Description: Stationary engines of various sizes mounted on skids or planks of wood. The engines appear to be situated among scaffolding and an unfinished wall at what ...
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Men with Wagon Outside Brick Building

Date: 1915
Description: Panoramic view of group of men working on and around a flat bed wagon loaded with a large piece of machinery. They are outside a large brick building.
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Buffington Coke Works

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Description: The roofs and smokestacks of the power house and hoist house of Buffington Coke Works are behind the coke ovens which are in the foreground. Buffington Cok...
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Factory Workers at the McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 1900
Description: "Knotter men" work at tables in the McCormick Twine Mill. Windows line one wall of the brick room, and a system of belt-driven machinery is arranged along ...
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International Sprayer

Date: 1910
Description: An International Harvester "sprayer" mounted on a wagon, possibly intended for pesticide application (or in this context, window washing?). The wagon is pa...
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Men with Large Poles Atop a Sprayer

Date: 1910
Description: Two men are standing on top of what appears to be a sprayer, probably for use in orchards (though the urban setting suggests the possibility of other appli...
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Corps of Engineers Lithographic Press

Date: 1918
Description: Four soldiers printing on a press. Two men are reviewing maps, and the other two men are standing at the lithographic press of 310th U.S. Army Engineer Cor...
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Cream Separators

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Description: Outdoor view of a storefront with cream separators in front of a business. Identified as the Dell and Lund Real Estate Agency, which also sold farm equipme...
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Men Working in a Factory

Date: 1900
Description: Men working with machinery indoors at McCormick Works. Metal parts are piled in wood bins.
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Woodshop at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of woodshop at McCormick Works. Carts are loaded with lumber, and belt-driven machinery is attached to the ceiling. There are archways throug...
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Manufacturing Area — Binder Attachment

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of men working in the binder attachment room at McCormick Works. The worker's coats and hats are hung up high on the brick wall between the l...
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Generators at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Generators indoors in a large brick building at McCormick Works.

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