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Child Worker Removing Twine from Machine

Date: 1910
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...
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Women Balling Twine at Deering Works

Date: 1915
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 ...
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Women Working in Canvas Department of McCormick Works

Date: 07 22 1936
Description: Slightly elevated view of women workers measuring, cutting and sewing sections of canvas for binder back curtains, combine hoods and curtains, burlap bags,...
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African American Workers at IHC McCormick Works

Date: 1905
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 ...
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Balling Machine in Operation

Date: 1905
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.
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Filipino Cart

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Description: A Philippine Islands man sits in a cart drawn by several water buffalo. The man may have worked in International Harvester's sisal and twine operation.
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Combing Fibre

Date: 1905
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 ...
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McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 04 26 1939
Description: Female factory workers at the McCormick Twine Mill use the twine balling machines and package completed balls of twine from off a conveyor.
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McCormick Twine Mill Workers

Date: 1938
Description: Female and male factory workers handle bags of twine in the McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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McCormick Twine Mills

Date: 04 16 1937
Description: A man at McCormick Works Twine Mill stands in between various rows of machinery to inspect a ball of twine.
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Women at McCormick Works

Date: 1930
Description: Female factory workers handling fabric strips at McCormick Works.
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International D-30 Truck

Date: 03 1938
Description: An International Model D-30 truck loaded with twine is parked near a body of water in Uppsala, Sweden. A large ship is in the background. The truck was own...
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French McCormick Twine Display

Date: 1935
Description: Balls of twine and agricultural machines are displayed in the "Salon De La Machine Agricole" in Paris, France.
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Deering Display at Salon de la Machine Agricole

Date: 1935
Description: Balls of Deering brand twine in display cases, and agricultural machines are set up in a large room for the "Salon de la Machine Agricole" in Paris, France...
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Twine Scales at Hamilton Works

Date: 05 12 1933
Description: Bundles of twine (fibre) piled on hanging scales are weighed at International Harvester's Hamilton Works factory.
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Men with Carts at Hamilton Twine Mills

Date: 1929
Description: Factory workers handle twine piled on wheeled carts at Hamilton Twine Mills.
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Men Stacking Twine Fiber

Date: 01 27 1925
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 ...
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Female Factory Worker

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: A female factory worker balling binder twine with a machine, most likely at International Harvester's McCormick Works Twine Mill.
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Women Spooling Twine

Date: 01 27 1925
Description: Female factory workers at the McCormick Works twine mill use machines to wind twine onto spools.
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Man Working at Machine

Date: 1925
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.

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