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Women on Lunch Break at Deering Works Twine Mill

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Description: Women sitting and standing at leisure outside International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company un...
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Manure Spreader Wheels

Date: 1905
Description: Wheels for a manure spreader outdoors at McCormick Works.
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Illinois Northern Railway Boxcar

Date: 06 12 1906
Description: Illinois Northern Railway boxcar outdoors at McCormick Works.
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Illinois Northern Rail Road Train

Date: 07 1907
Description: Illinois Northern rail road train, with two engines, a coal car and a car with front wall burst out, at McCormick Works. There are commercial buildings in ...
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Hay Stacker at McCormick Works

Date: 04 1907
Description: Two men are standing near a hay stacker in the yard at McCormick Works. In the background is a railroad car on railroad tracks along a fence.
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Railroad Car Tipped on Side

Date: 09 15 1910
Description: Railroad car tipped on side. A man is standing behind the tipped railroad car.
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Railroad Tracks Curving Around Round Brick Building

Date: 11 11 1913
Description: View towards curving set of two sets of railroad tracks, with a round brick building on the right. A railroad signal is in the foreground. A man is standin...
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McCormick Works

Date: 11 09 1914
Description: View from elevated railroad tracks towards railroad yard, and newly constructed plant addition. Men are standing in the yard below. A tower on one of the b...
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McCormick Works

Date: 11 09 1914
Description: View from elevated railroad tracks towards railroad yard, and newly constructed plant addition. Men are in the yard below. A tower on one of the buildings ...
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Boxcar Entering Plant Yard

Date: 02 18 1915
Description: View from elevated railroad platform looking towards a factory building with railroad cars on tracks underneath. Two sets of railroad tracks run along the ...
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Factory Buildings

Date: 05 04 1916
Description: View of plant from across a street, with a line of wooden barrels in the foreground.
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Harvester Threshers in Factory Yard

Date: 05 11 1917
Description: Elevated view of a large group of products, Harvester Threshers, being assembled in the factory yard by men. Other machines are crated nearby. Railroad car...
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Railroad Yard at McCormick Works

Date: 08 23 1917
Description: View across multiple sets of railroad tracks towards a factory building. A man is standing on the railroad tracks in the background on the right in front o...
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Detail of Binder

Date: 09 08 1917
Description: View of section of a binder outdoors in factory yard. In the background railroad cars are on an elevated platform. A man is standing behind the machine on ...
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Milwaukee Binder at McCormick Works

Date: 09 08 1917
Description: Close-up of a Milwaukee Binder outdoors in the factory yard between two sets of railroad tracks. In the background on the left railroad cars are on an elev...
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Detail of Milwaukee Binder at McCormick Works

Date: 09 08 1917
Description: Close-up of a Binder outdoors in factory yard. On the right is an elevated railroad platform, and on the left are factory buildings.
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Early Model Harvester Thresher at McCormick Works

Date: 05 03 1918
Description: Early model Harvester Thresher in factory yard. In the background are railroad cars on an elevated railroad platform between two brick factory buildings. A...
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Corn Picker at McCormick Works

Date: 06 14 1918
Description: Corn Picker outdoors in factory yard. There are agricultural parts, stacks of wood, railroad tracks and buildings in the background.
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Corn Picker at McCormick Works

Date: 06 14 1918
Description: Corn Picker outdoors in factory yard. There are agricultural parts, stacks of wood, railroad tracks and buildings in the background.
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Machine Crated for Shipment at McCormick Works

Date: 11 04 1918
Description: Machine crated for shipment outdoors in factory yard. The crate is opened to show packaging.

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