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| 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: | 07 18 1927 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Kessenich's Silk Department, 201 State Street. Two women are standing on either side of a counter in the right foreground. |
| Date: | 03 28 1927 |
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| Description: | Kessenich's linen department. A clock is on the wall above the entrance, and a water fountain is on the wall on the left.. |
| Date: | 1929 |
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| Description: | Factory workers handle twine piled on wheeled carts at Hamilton Twine Mills. |
| 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: | A female factory worker balling binder twine with a machine, most likely at International Harvester's McCormick Works Twine Mill. |
| 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: | 12 21 1925 |
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| Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul a long train of carts holding bundles of fiber, possibly for burlap. Another man is lo... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | A man rides on the back of a train of carts loaded with burlap sacks as it enters the Chase Bag Company warehouse from the steamship dock. |
| Date: | 05 18 1925 |
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| Description: | A man operating a McCormick-Deering 10-20 industrial tractor to haul carts loaded with what appear to be bundles of burlap fabric. There is an industrial b... |
| Date: | 05 05 1926 |
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| Description: | An International truck used by Ascher's 100% Pure Wool Knit Goods Company parked in front of a building marked: "Gerosa Haulage & Warehouse." One man is si... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | View across river of a large mill or factory complex, possibly the Island Woolen Mill. In front of the mill is a roofed boathouse, with a canoe hanging fro... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hemp or sisal fiber piles on the floor of International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill as it is processed through spreading machines. The mill was locate... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Cleo Holt posing for a portrait while holding a rope. |
| Date: | 1921 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline over the Baraboo River towards a dam, with a mill on the opposite shoreline. A bridge and a business district are in the background. |
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