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Assembled Titan 10-20 Tractors Ready for Paint

Date: 1918
Description: Newly assembled Titan 10-20 HP tractors waiting for painting at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester...
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Tractor Works Tractor Assembly Line

Date: 1921
Description: International 8-16 tractors entering a paint booth(?) on an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works (factory).
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Worker Painting Tractor at Tractor Works

Date: 03 29 1923
Description: Worker spray painting the rear wheel well of a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor along an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Worker Painting Tractors at IHC Tractor Works

Date: 12 11 1934
Description: Worker spray painting a Farmall F-12 tractor while others attach rear wheels along an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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Workers Test Paint Quality at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Workers testing paint for physical constancy, viscosity and weight per gallon in the Paint Department of International Harvester's McCormick Works. Cans of...
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Workers Box Cans of Paint at McCormick Works

Date: 1939
Description: Paint Department workers boxing cans of "Motor Truck and Tractor Synthetic Enamel Paint" for shipment from the International Harvester's McCormick Works. T...
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Nagle-Hart Co. Paint Spray Booth

Date: 01 30 1943
Description: Paint spray booth at Nagle-Hart Tractor & Equipment Company, 754 East Washington Avenue. View shows man spraypainting a Caterpillar tractor.
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Farmall Works Paint Booth

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers painting Farmall tractors in a paint booth at International Harvester's Farmall Works.
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Farmall Works Assembly Line

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. Original caption reads: "Emerging from the drying ovens after leaving the ...
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Freshly Painted Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1948
Description: Freshly painted Farmall Cub tractor hanging in a paint oven at International Harvester's Louisville Works.
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Farmall Cub Tractor Ready for Painting

Date: 1948
Description: Factory worker making final adjustments to a Farmall Cub tractor before entering a paint spray booth at International Harvester's Louisville Works.
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Worker Painting Farmall Cub Tractor

Date: 1947
Description: Factory worker painting a Farmall Cub tractor in a paint booth at International Harvester's Louisville Works. Original caption notes that the worker is not...
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Workers Spray Painting Farmall Tractors

Date: 1952
Description: Factory workers painting Farmall tractors at Farmall Works.
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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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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...
Manuscript

Regular Farmall Paint Swatch

Date: 
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...
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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...
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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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