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Workers Filling Railroad Cooling Car with Ice

Date: 1966
Description: Two workers filling a railroad cooling car with ice from an International truck at a railroad yard.
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Union Pacific Railroad Crew

Date: 1917
Description: Eighteen man crew for the Union Pacific Silo Special Trip posing for a group portrait in front of railroad cars.
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International Harvester Tractors Loaded onto Railroad Cars

Date: 1941
Description: Elevated view of men loading hundreds of new Farmall B, Farmall A and International crawler tractors (TracTracTors) onto railroad cars with a crane outside...
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Steam Crane Loading Lumber onto Railroad Car

Date: 1916
Description: Steam crane loading lumber onto a railroad car for use at an International Harvester sawmill.
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Workers Load Stubble Pulverizers at IHC McCormick Works

Date: 03 21 1927
Description: Workers loading new folding stubble pulverizers onto railroad cars at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Har...
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IHC Portable Engine on Flatcar

Date: 04 12 1911
Description: View of a new IHC Titan (?Mogul Tractor) tank-cooled portable engine loaded onto a flatcar for shipment from IHC's Milwaukee Works, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. S...
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Construction of "Borrow Pit"

Date: 02 22 1919
Description: Workers using a steam shovel to dig a "borrow pit" for the no. 2 mine. The shovel is loading soil onto a rail car on a narrow gauge railroad track. Benham ...
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Construction of Lubertzy Works

Date: 1910
Description: Construction workers on a building site at International Harvester's Lubertzy Works in Russia.
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St. Cloud Combine Promotion

Date: 1955
Description: Original caption reads: "The St. Cloud district sales organization looks over the 29-car trainload of McCormick harvester-threshers bound for 47 dealers wh...
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Hough Payloader Pulling Boxcar

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Description: Hough Payloader pulling a boxcar.
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Tractor Transport

Date: 1937
Description: Men load I-12 tractors onto a train at International Harvester's Neuss Works in Germany.
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Panoramic View of the Chicago Great Western Train Traveling

Date: 1937
Description: A panoramic view of the Chicago Great Western train traveling across the countryside carrying assorted International Harvester wagons. The majority of the ...
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Logs at Sawmill

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of an International Harvester sawmill, with logs stacked on railroad cars on a railroad track.
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Reaper in Factory Yard

Date: 09 03 1912
Description: An experimental reaper(?) in a factory yard. There is a Russian name on the Reaper, and the front is set up on saw-horses. Men are working near a brick fac...
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Cotton Bale on a Railroad Loading Dock

Date: 1921
Description: A cotton bale sits on a platform next to a train, possibly awaiting shipment.
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John S. Taylor's Model H Truck

Date: 04 10 1935
Description: A man, probably John S. Taylor, shoveling gravel into an International Model H Truck. The truck is parked near a railroad box car. Photograph taken by Berg...
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Cotton Picker Shipment

Date: 08 08 1944
Description: A shipment of tractor-mounted cotton pickers loaded on railroad flat cars near a factory(?) building.
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100,000th Farmall Celebration

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view over crowd of people towards a man standing on a platform, possibly Cyrus McCormick III. He is speaking to a large group of people gathered o...
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International Harvester Factory(?) Site

Date: 1915
Description: Elevated view of men standing around a lumber yard among buildings at an International Harvester factory(?) site, most likely in Illinois. A Chicago, Burli...
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Boston General Line Branch

Date: 1935
Description: Two well-dressed men are standing outdoors among Farmall tractors which are loaded on railroad cars. Original caption reads: "M.E. Merseran, manager, and H...

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