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Twine Mill Worker and Machinery

Date: 1900
Description: A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-...
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McCormick Works Employees Threading Bolts

Date: 1900
Description: Workers, including some boys, threading bolts with heavy machinery in the Nut and Bolt Department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by t...
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Assembling Mowers at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Workers assembling mowers in the Mower Room of the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company before 1902. I...
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Painting Mower Main Frames

Date: 1900
Description: Workers hand painting hundreds of McCormick mower main frames hanging in the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Mach...
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Pinstriping Binders

Date: 1900
Description: Workers pinstriping hundreds of binder frames inside at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine company befor...
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McCormick Works Shipping Dock

Date: 1900
Description: Dock workers preparing boxed farm machines for loading onto a ship at the McCormick Reaper Works dock. The boxes contain McCormick Daisy reapers, New 4 mow...
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Metal Finishing Room at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Workers in the metal finishing room at the McCormick Reaper Works. In 1902 the factory became part of the International Harvester Company.
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McCormick Reaper Works

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Description: Lantern slide illustration of the interior of the McCormick Reaper Works(?) as it appeared in 1860. Shows men stoking a boiler, working at a work bench, a...
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Men at Forge at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men working with hot metal in what appears to be a forge at the McCormick Reaper Works factory.
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Metal Finishing Room at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men working at tables in the metal finishing room of the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Stacks of parts are piled on the floor, and a hat and coat are han...
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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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Men Working in McCormick Foundry

Date: 1900
Description: View across foundry floor of factory workers in a large room with high ceilings, vent hoods and skylights at McCormick Works. Two men in the middle ground ...
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Men Working in Fiber Processing Plant

Date: 1900
Description: Men feeding fiber into manufacturing machines standing on a large factory floor with a high ceiling, many exposed ceiling beams, windows, and brick walls. ...
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Metal Finishing Room at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1902
Description: Factory workers standing at machines in the metal finishing room at the McCormick Works.
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McCormick Reaper Delivery

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers are guiding a crated McCormick reaper on pulley ropes through an opening in the floor, most likely at the McCormick Reaper Works. The text ...
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Men with Oxen at Mill

Date: 1899
Description: A group of men are standing with three or four teams of oxen pulling wagons at what appears to be a mill. Several buildings and a chute are in the backgrou...
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Men at McCormick Loading Docks

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers are loading a wooden crate marked "McCormick Folding Daisy Reaper" using a pulley system in the docks of the McCormick Works.
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Workers Store Bundles of Binder Twine

Date: 1900
Description: Workers stacking bundles of McCormick binder twine in a warehouse, possibly at the McCormick Twine Mill.
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Factory Workers Iron Molding at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers pouring hot metal into molds, most likely at the McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago.
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Canvas Machine at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
Description: Factory workers at a canvas machine at the McCormick Reaper Works.

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