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Hess and Sons Cooperage

Date: 1949
Description: Interior view of Frank J. Hess and Sons barrel-making factory, 1952 Atwood Avenue at Schenck's Corners. Pictured l to r: Frank Jr., Edward, Joseph, Tony, a...
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Lumber Camp Dining Room

Date: 1890
Description: Group of men posing in the dining room at August Mason's lumber camp. Three men are playing stringed instruments. Posters are displayed on the wall behind ...
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Lumber Camp Cook Shanty

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Description: Two men preparing a meal in a lumber camp shanty or bunkhouse.
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Workers Handling Castings at International Harvester's Tractor Works

Date: 1919
Description: Factory workers using a pulley to load castings onto a table at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory produced tractors (including Farmall A...
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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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Down in the Mine

Date: 1900
Description: Miners in the bowels of a lead mine.
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Zinc Miners

Date: 1910
Description: Zinc miners posing with an ore bucket down in a mine.
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Stoking the Fire

Date: 1950
Description: A man in work clothes gets ready to shove a log into the fire chamber of a boiler.
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McCormick Works Paint(?) Laboratory

Date: 1900
Description: Technicians standing and sitting in the paint(?) laboratory at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Tables are equipped with burners, beakers and other supp...
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Two Linemen for Telephone Exchange

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Description: Studio portrait of two telephone linemen with some of their equipment in front of a painted backdrop. They are wearing work clothes and hats, and hold ciga...
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Factory Workers at Plano Works

Date: 1919
Description: Men working with molds at International Harvester's Plano Works. One worker is standing at a workbench. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works....
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Hawkins Mine Workers

Date: 1945
Description: Two workers in coveralls and hardhats underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine near Hibbing, Minnesota.
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Workers at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Two workers, both in overalls and hardhats, use tools underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota. One man uses a drill wh...
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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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Sealing Cork Insulation at West Pullman Works

Date: 03 29 1937
Description: Factory workers seal cork insulation between an inner and an outer steel box at West Pullman Works.
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Man Shovelling Metal into West Pullman Works Furnace

Date: 1944
Description: A man wearing protective gloves is shoveling metal pieces into a radiant tube clean hardening furnace at West Pullman Works.
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Man with Large Scale

Date: 1924
Description: A factory worker makes an adjustment to a large weight on a scale in front of a cloth backdrop.
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Man Fitting Copper Tubing for Torpedo

Date: 01 13 1943
Description: A factory worker uses an oxy-acetylene torch to fit a copper tube in the production of an aircraft torpedo. He is wearing an International Harvester Compan...
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Special Machine Tool Shop

Date: 06 02 1942
Description: Original caption reads: "Walter R. Hallberg, superintendent of Harvester's special machine tool shop, inspects a rebuilt milling machine placed in operatin...
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T-20 TracTracTor in Building Excavation

Date: 1937
Description: Three workers removing ropes from an International T-20 TracTracTor (crawler tractor) with bulldozer during a building excavation. A large pulley is hangin...

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