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McCormick-Deering All-Steel Threshers Loaded on Railroad Cars

Date: 05 23 1925
Description: McCormick-Deering all-steel threshers loaded on railroad cars outside International Harvester's West Pullman Works (factory). The factory originally belong...
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Workers Load Tractors for Shipment at IHC Tractor Works

Date: 04 12 1923
Description: Workers lowering McCormick-Deering 10-20 HP tractors onto railroad cars for shipment using an overhead crane at International Harvester's Tractor Works.
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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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Steam Engine Leaving McCormick Works Railroad Yard

Date: 04 16 1929
Description: Elevated view of steam engine pulling railroad cars in the railroad yard at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
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Worker Loading Cargo into Railroad Car from International Truck

Date: 06 11 1925
Description: African American worker standing and loading cargo from a crane into a railroad boxcar from an International truck. Another worker is sitting behind the dr...
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U.S. Sugar Company

Date: 1924
Description: Two women standing on path in front of the Garver Feed Mill, which was originally a sugar beet processing factory.
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Ellefson Lumber Company

Date: 05 16 1929
Description: View of the Ellefson Lumber Company warehouse on Sutherland Court behind 2016 Winnebago Street.
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Capitol Oil Company

Date: 04 03 1929
Description: A railroad tanker car is sitting on tracks next to fuel storage tanks at the Capitol Oil Company, 919 East Main Street.
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Hess Barrel Company

Date: 06 14 1927
Description: Loading barrels into a Chicago and Northwestern Railroad car behind the Hess Barrel Company (cooperage) at about 1950 Atwood Avenue. Stacks of oak barrel h...
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Atlas Mill

Date: 1922
Description: View across water towards the Atlas Mill. The paper making mill on the Fox River was built in 1878 and proved that paper could be made efficiently from gro...
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Hoberg Paper and Fibre Company

Date: 1920
Description: Hoberg Paper and Fibre Company buildings along the East River. Ice is on the river in the foreground.
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: Gasoline rail car manufactured by the Winther Motor and Truck Company, situated on railroad tracks.
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: Front view of gasoline rail car manufactured by the Winther Motor and Truck Company, situated on railroad tracks.
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Winther Motor Company, Factory Product

Date: 1921
Description: Gasoline rail car manufactured by the Winther Motors Inc., factory.
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Fifty Kissel Taxis

Date: 08 07 1929
Description: A line of fifty "Bradford Cabs" manufactured by the Kissel Motor Car Company of Hartford, Wisconsin. Caption reads: "'Bradford Cabs' built by the Kissel Mo...
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Thresher Transport

Date: 05 23 1925
Description: A train transports McCormick-Deering All-Steel threshers from International Harvester's Plano Works. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works."
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Croix Works

Date: 05 28 1923
Description: Elevated view of the buildings of International Harvester's Croix Works (factory) and the accompanying transport railway. Croix was located in France.
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Worker Driving Dump Truck

Date: 11 20 1925
Description: A man driving a Heil dump truck.
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Loading Box Car with Kerosene Engine

Date: 10 12 1926
Description: A man uses a McCormick-Deering Kerosene engine to run a conveyor to load grain onto a train boxcar near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada(?). A building in t...
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Milwaukee Works Factory

Date: 1920
Description: Exterior view of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory.

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