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Poster

Farmall Tractor Advertising Poster

Date: 1928
Description: Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Farmall tractors showing a map of the United States with trains speeding in all directions from Illinois. Bears th...
Photograph

Band Playing at Train Station

Date: 1917
Description: Twelve piece brass band playing at a railroad station during the "Union Pacific Preparedness Special Campaign."
Photograph

Union Pacific Railroad Crew

Date: 1917
Description: Eighteen man crew for the Union Pacific Silo Special Trip posing for a group portrait in front of railroad cars.
Photograph

Steam Engine in front of Factory

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Description: Men pose on and around a large steam engine locomotive and mineral cars(?) in front of a factory with tall smokestacks. The side of the engine reads: "Calu...
Photograph

Sawmill Workers Posing with Steam Engine in Forest

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Description: Two workers are posing in front of a steam engine carrying logs for an International Harvester sawmill.
Photograph

Steam Locomotive Loaded with Logs

Date: 1915
Description: Two workers perched on a steam locomotive pulling railroad cars loaded with logs. The coal car bears the name "Deering Southwestern Railway." The railway w...
Photograph

Steam Locomotive Pulling Crane at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Steam locomotive moving an overhead crane used to lay rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. One man is standing on the right, and another man i...
Photograph

Crane Laying Rails for Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Workers and a steam railroad crane laying rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine.
Photograph

Workers Hauling Sisal Leaves

Date: 1910
Description: Workers hauling sisal leaves with rail carts and burros to a decortication mill in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico. The mill was likely part of Internation...
Photograph

Workers Load Tractors onto Railroad Cars at IHC Tractor Works

Date: 1930
Description: Workers using an overhead crane to load new McCormick-Deering tractors (including the 10-20 and possibly the I-20) onto railroad cars outside International...
Photograph

Loading F-20 Tractor onto Railroad Car at Tractor Works

Date: 12 13 1934
Description: Worker guiding a new Farmall 20 tractor suspended from a crane onto a snow-covered railroad car outside International Harvester's Tractor Works.
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1905
Description: Front cover of a Canadian advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of harvesting machines, tillage and seeding implements. Features a...
Photograph

International Harvester Transfer Agency

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester Transfer Agency building with several men standing on a platform surrounding it. Railroad tracks are located on...
Photograph

St. Paul Flax Twine Mill

Date: 1906
Description: Men unloading flax straw from railroad cars in front of Storage Building No. 3 at International Harvester's St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill.
Photograph

International G/61 Railroad Truck

Date: 10 27 1923
Description: A driver sits in an International Model G or 61 truck fitted with railway gears and wheels for the Ozark-Southern Railway Company.
Photograph

International G/61 Railroad Truck

Date: 02 28 1923
Description: A man stands at a small, run-down station while another man sits in an International Model G or 61 truck that has been rigged with railway gears, wheels an...
Photograph

Rail Shipment at Tractor Works

Date: 1950
Description: Several men are loading boxes and pallets from International Harvester's Tractor Works onto a train.
Photograph

Magdeburg Branch House Loading Dock

Date: 1935
Description: Railroad cars loaded with farm equipment on a track near the loading dock of International Harvester's Magdeburg branch house in Germany.
Photograph

Unloading Cargo for "World of Mirth" Show

Date: 1948
Description: Men unload rail cars for the "World of Mirth Shows," an American traveling carnival with rides and a sideshow. International ID-6 diesel wheel tractors ass...
Photograph

Two Men Posing on a Train Engine

Date: 1949
Description: Engineer and fireman on a train carrying International Harvester binder twine ("a trainload of twine") to Lincoln, Nebraska. Original caption reads: "Engin...

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