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| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Boy removing a bundle of twine from a decorticator machine at an International Harvester factory in the Yucatan, Mexico. Accompanying text reads: "No guard... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Female workers using machines to ball twine at International Harvester's Deering Works twine mill. The Deering works was located at Fullerton and Clybourn ... |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Group of employees, all men or young men, and mostly African American, posing inside manila or cotton processing room of IHC's McCormick Works. One man is ... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Harvester's "Big Ball" twine. The twine was marketed under the "McCormick," "Deering," and "International" brand names... |
| Date: | 1927 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for the "Big Ball" of binder twine produced by the International Harvester Company. Features an illustration of a big ball of twine. |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International Binder Twine. The Big Ball twine is shown along with a guarantee of its quality. The poster was made for use in the Un... |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | A man operates a balling machine while another handles spools of binder twine. The men may have been working at the McCormick twine mill in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | Men in a factory comb fiber (fibre), the first process preparatory to spinning. International Harvester used sisal fiber to make binder twine. The men may ... |
| Date: | 04 26 1939 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers at the McCormick Twine Mill use the twine balling machines and package completed balls of twine from off a conveyor. |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 04 16 1937 |
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| Description: | A man at McCormick Works Twine Mill stands in between various rows of machinery to inspect a ball of twine. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers handling fabric strips at McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | Three men use a lift to stack bales of bound fiber in a storage area, possibly at the McCormick Works twine mill. The company used sisal and hemp fiber to ... |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | Female factory workers at the McCormick Works twine mill use machines to wind twine onto spools. |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man standing at a machine, in what is possibly the McCormick Works twine mill, handles bags, probably containing sisal to be made into twine. |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | A factory worker loads bags of twine onto a conveyor belt, while another waits at the top of the pile to stack the twine in a storage space, possibly at th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A man is standing in a warehouse beside bales of manila fiber used to make twine at the McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men feeding fiber into manufacturing machines standing on a large factory floor with a high ceiling, many exposed ceiling beams, windows, and brick walls. ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of a spreading machine in an International Harvester twine mill, possibly at McCormick Works in Chicago. Fiber, possibly sisal, is piled on the floor ... |
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