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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Catalog cover featuring an illustration, on an orange background, of a young child wearing overalls standing near a pile of corn, corn cribs, and a Plano H... |
| Date: | 1881 |
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| Description: | Front cover of the catalog featuring an embossed silhouette illustration of a man using a horse-drawn Plano harvesting machine. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across street towards a boy and girl standing on the street corner across from the granite mansion built for Conrad Seipp at 3300 South Michigan Avenu... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across streets towards the tower with a steeply pitched roof which anchors the southeast corner of the Conrad Seipp mansion at 3300 South Michigan Ave... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of McCormick Works. Advertisement are painted on the sides of a building on the left, and on the bottom left are billboards. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across street of McCormick Works. In the foreground are sidewalks on either side of the street. Advertisements are painted on the sides of co... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Quarter-length studio portrait of a F.W. Heiskell wearing a suit. International Harvester Advertising Manager. |
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| Description: | Altgeld Gardens Commercial Center was designed by George Fred and William Keck as Project #317 in 1946. This shopping center was associated with Altgeld Ga... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Driver's side view of International truck with an advertisement for Mai-Roe Bread (Maier-Roedel Baking Company) bakery. |
| Date: | 05 26 1866 |
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| Description: | Page one of "The Workingman's Advocate." The front page of the newspaper includes an illustration that advertises "Artificial Legs and Arms" for wounded Ci... |
| Date: | 12 26 1928 |
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| Description: | A large billboard reads: "International Harvester Motor Truck Works and Branch House, 1/2 M. South." |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Selection of weekly schedules for the Chicago City Opera Company. The front includes an illustration of the entrance to the Civic Opera House (currently th... |
| Date: | 06 11 1910 |
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| Description: | View towards the front of a tractor parked outdoors. In the background a man is standing along a street with a streetcar moving in front of storefronts. |
| Date: | 06 11 1910 |
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| Description: | Rear view of a tractor at McCormick Works. In the background men are standing on the left near a street, with horse-drawn vehicles moving along the curb on... |
| Date: | 09 08 1910 |
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| Description: | Photograph of an "Age and School Certificate" completed by a mother giving her 13 years and 11 months old son permission to work. The form reads, in part: ... |
| Date: | 07 13 1911 |
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| Description: | View along railroad tracks towards factory buildings. A billboard reads "Wholesale and Retail." |
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| Description: | Lithographic portrait of Cyrus Hall Adams, a Chicago commodities broker who merged his father's company with Cyrus McCormick & Co., to form McCormick, Adam... |
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