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Pesticide Display

Date: 08 22 1946
Description: Sherwin Williams Company, 340 State Street, window display of PESTROY-DDT, new brush-on liquid coating for screens, porches, basements, sills, thresholds, ...
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Painting a Farmall Tractor

Date: 1939
Description: A man wearing coveralls and a mask spraying paint(?) on a Farmall tractor. The man is probably a service technician or mechanic at an Interational Harvest...
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Accelerated Weather Testing Machine at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Accelerated weather testing machine used to test the durability of paint in the McCormick Works (factory) Paint Department.
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Painting Crawler Tractors at Tractor Works

Date: 1947
Description: Factory workers painting crawler tractors (TracTracTors) at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Freshly Painted Tractors at Tractor Works

Date: 1942
Description: "Freshly painted" crawler tractors (TracTracTors) "emerge from 190 ft. gas-fired drying oven" at International Harvester's Tractor Works. A factory worker ...
Document

Patek Brothers Letterhead

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Description: Letterhead of Patek Brothers, Inc., of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a paint company, with a halftone image of a hand dipping a brush into a can of Patek paint, el...
Photograph

New Water Tower

Date: 07 24 1997
Description: "Painter Pat Calkins of Merrillan, WI poses on the top of the new water tank."
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New Water Tower

Date: 07 29 1997
Description: "Painter Casey Montroy of Monmouth, IL is nonchalant on top of the 200,000 gallon tank."
Photograph

Manufacturing Area — Paint Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of men working in the paint shop at McCormick Works.
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Manufacturing Area — Paint Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of men working in the paint shop at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Manufacturing Area — Paint Shop

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of men working in the paint room at McCormick Works.
Manuscript

Regular Farmall Paint Swatch

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Description: Regular Farmall paint swatch attached to a letter. According to the letter, the sample is showing the tone of grey used on those tractors, and the entire t...
Photograph

Tractor Pulling Industrial Paint Sprayer

Date: 10 05 1923
Description: View across yard towards a man driving a tractor pulling an industrial paint sprayer. Two men are standing behind the sprayer holding two hoses with the no...
Photograph

Tractor Pulling Industrial Paint Sprayer

Date: 10 05 1923
Description: View across yard towards a man driving a tractor pulling an industrial paint sprayer. Two men are standing behind the sprayer holding two hoses with nozzle...

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