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Children Working In Vegetable Cannery

Date: 1912
Description: Children working in a vegetable cannery as the supervisor with pipe in his mouth stands over them.
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Experimental International Harvester Motor Cultivator

Date: 1916
Description: Man with cigar tests an International Harvester experimental motor cultivator in a field.
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Dealer Preparing Truck

Date: 11 22 1937
Description: McCormick-Deering dealer Edward Gumienick smoking a cigar as he is loading dairy equipment into his International truck for a sales "canvassing" trip. His ...
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House on Bernard Court

Date: 12 19 1936
Description: View across street towards a three-story house on Bernard Court. The address on the door reads "202," and a sled is leaning up against the wall near the fr...
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Linden Blacksmith

Date: 05 20 1931
Description: View of the Linden blacksmith shop, showing forge and equipment. The introduction of motorized farm equipment and automobiles led to the virtual disappeara...
Book or Pamphlet

Osborne Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1902
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne & Co. harvesting machines showing three old men. Two of the men appear to be listening to the third man. I...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1889
Description: Front cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company, manufacturers of harvesting machinery. The cover features a framed inset of a scene of...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Advertising Catalog

Date: 1889
Description: Advertising catalog for grain cutting (harvesting) machinery manufactured by William Deering and Company. Features an illustration of children sitting with...
Photograph

Radio Stars with Mechanical Cow at "A Century of Progress"

Date: 03 24 1933
Description: Radio stars Jack Pearl and Cliff Hal posing with a mechanical cow and milker in the International Harvester exhibit at the "A Century of Progress" world's ...
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Experimental Combine

Date: 1943
Description: Lee and Gray, International Harvester employees, and Fowler McCormick, looking at an experimental combine (harvester-thresher) in a field. A Farmall tracto...
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Hosiery Workers

Date: 
Description: A group of hosiery workers sitting on a bench, smoking cigarettes, and drinking coffee.
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Three Male Construction Workers

Date: 1969
Description: Three construction workers standing near a truck outside the office for the Sand Chapter of Mechanical Contractors at the construction site for the World T...
Photograph

Shingle Mill Workers

Date: 1895
Description: Shingle mill workers posing outside the cook shanty while the mill was shut down for repairs. They are, left to right as numbered on the photograph: 1. Joh...
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Using the 1831 Reaper Replica on Set

Date: 1929
Description: A production still from the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reap...
Photograph

Clarence L. Dauberman Farm

Date: 07 31 1941
Description: People gathered around a Farmall Regular tractor on the farm of Clarence L. Dauberman. Original caption reads: "Sydney G. McAllister, chairman, executive c...
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Wisconsin Steel Booth at Blind Veterans Show

Date: 1947
Description: A blind(?) man operates a piece of machinery behind a table in a display booth at the "blind veterans show." The booth is labeled "International Harvester'...
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Dealers Looking at Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Two Minnesota dealers, Glidden Toldt and Myron Syverson of Ornsby, inspect a Farmall Cub Tractor. The men were likely attending an International Harvester ...
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Dedicating a Plaque on Michigan Avenue Bridge

Date: 1947
Description: Two men are looking at a newly unveiled plaque commemorating International Harvester's "100 Years in Chicago" celebration. Original caption reads: "Fowler ...
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Superintendents at St. Paul Works

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Factory superintendent at St. Paul Works. "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun Manufacture. J.E. Harris, left, superintendent of St. Paul Works, confers with M.V....
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Payday for Field Workers on Sisal Plantation

Date: 1949
Description: A manager pays a field worker on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Mr. Monroe paying the field workers."

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