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| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International engines. Includes illustrations of the engines' farm uses, including pumping water, washing clothes, and operating a c... |
| Date: | 08 27 1952 |
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| Description: | Window display at C.C. Collins and Son, Inc., 2398 University Avenue, featuring "Filter Fry," a filter cover for frying pans made by Research Products Comp... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | An employee of the Chase Bag company, who was also a member of the Amagalamted Meatcutters and Butcherworkers of North America, stitches at a sewing machin... |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | A hall, possibly at the McCormick Works Club House, decorated with vases of flowers, long tables laid with place settings, and chairs set up for a banquet ... |
| Date: | 01 31 1949 |
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| Description: | Four ladies observing a woman demonstrating on a sewing machine at the University of Wisconsin Farm and Home Week. |
| Date: | 1940 |
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| Description: | A woman in uniform standing by the open door of a walk-in-cooler in the cafeteria at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory). A man is standing ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man and woman standing at an International Harvester chest freezer holding pieces of poultry and meat. They are standing in front of a curtain. |
| Date: | 01 16 1967 |
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| Description: | Instructor Ida Mussa (left) assists student Victoria Vega in a power sewing class at Milwaukee Vocational School. Vega is sewing an apron on a Singer sewin... |
| Date: | 10 1927 |
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| Description: | Freshly pressed clothing hanging on a metal bar off an Apex electric ironing machine. |
| Date: | 10 1923 |
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| Description: | A woman using a 1.5 horsepower McCormick-Deering engine to pump water into a metal bucket outside a building at International Harvester's Hinsdale experime... |
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| Description: | About twenty women sit at tables sewing on sewing machines in the sewing room of the Chippewa Woolen Mill. |
| Date: | 03 25 1914 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a large group of female factory workers sitting at tables in a cafeteria at International Harvester's Osborne Works. The women likely work... |
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| Description: | An early wood chipper with belts and a steam engine is closely watched by the William Fiebelkorn farm workers. The postcard is addressed to Anna Fiebelkorn... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Interior view of the dining room in the McCormick Works Club House. A waiter stands near the door to the kitchen in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of the back of the dining room towards an open balcony above a brick wall. There are rows of chairs set up on the balcony. The dining room has a vault... |
| Date: | 1953 |
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| Description: | Miss Mae Houston, director of the home economics laboratory at Evansville, sitting at a desk. |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Inside spread of brochure. Text at top left reads: "Not just 'Automatic' Defrosting." Full title of spread reads: "Now! Tri-Matic Defrosting in the New Int... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Inside spread of brochure. Full title of spread reads: "Now! Tri-Matic Defrosting in the New International Harvester Refrigerators." Features a woman weari... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Inside spread of brochure. Full title of spread reads: "Functional Features ... Top to Bottom Sparkling Color ... Inside and out." Features a woman wearing... |
| Date: | 1951 |
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| Description: | Inside spread of brochure. Full title of spread reads: "Functional Features ... Top to Bottom Sparkling Color ... Inside and out." Features a woman wearing... |
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