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Photograph

Photographer Setting Up Outdoor View of IHC McCormick Works

Date: 08 06 1914
Description: Rear view of company photographer setting up shot of IHC's McCormick Works docks from across the waterfront. Two men are in a long wooden boat, with the na...
Photograph

Portage Canal

Date: 02 05 1928
Description: Slightly elevated view of the Portage Canal, looking east from the canal bridge. A man is standing on a large platform on the left side of the canal near a...
Photograph

Fox River Lock Tender

Date: 08 05 1962
Description: Mr. Ortel, a United States Government lock-keeper at Appleton lock number one on the Fox River canal. Mr. Ortel is opening the sluice gates to allow water ...
Photograph

Dredge Winneconne

Date: 
Description: View across water of the dredge "Winneconne" on the Fox River canal. Although undated the photograph was probably taken during the 1940s. The "Winneconne"...
Painting

Menasha Painting

Date: 1856
Description: ". . . The upper Grand Chute was the last of the 'improvements' paintings signed by Brookes and Stevenson. Yet there were two more vital links in the Fox R...
Drawing

Process of Excavation, Lockport

Date: 1825
Description: Engraved view of several wooden cranes extracting large stones from a cut during the construction of the Erie Canal. The rig in the foreground is horse-dri...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 5

Date: 1892
Description: Fifth page of calendar for September and October, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a man using a team of horses to pull a Buckeye harvestin...
Book or Pamphlet

Aultman, Miller & Co. Calendar Page 6

Date: 1892
Description: Sixth page of calendar for November and December, 1892. Features two illustrations: the top one of a group of boys in a tug of war using twine from a roll ...
Photograph

"Beaverton" Steamship

Date: 04 30 1927
Description: "Beaverton" steamship at a dock at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Canadian Steamship at McCormick Works

Date: 04 30 1927
Description: Elevated view of people along the dock near a Canada Steamship Lines ship.
Book or Pamphlet

Russian Catalog Cover for The McCormick Line Of Machines

Date: 1900
Description: Front cover of catalog for Russia. Features an illustration of men and women at a fair watching an exhibition of a man driving a horse-drawn McCormick bind...
Photograph

Railroad Tracks at McCormick Works

Date: 11 15 1918
Description: View from between two sets of railroad tracks, as well as a third set of tracks splitting off towards the left. A man wearing a suit and hat is standing ne...

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