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| Date: | 10 08 1912 |
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| Description: | Jesse Brabazon of Delavan, Wisconsin, in a Wright Model B following an emergency landing at Cicero Field in Chicago. Inspecting the faulty propeller that c... |
| Date: | 03 20 1975 |
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| Description: | Original press release caption reads: "J.O. Hill (right), of O.S. Hill and Company, International truck dealer at East Liverpool, Ohio, was recently electe... |
| Date: | 07 01 1913 |
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| Description: | The Curtiss flying boat in which Jack Vilas made the first flight across Lake Michigan. Vilas, a Chicago businessman, was greeted by a crowd of aerial enth... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | This photograph from the album of aviation pioneer Jesse Brabazon is described by him as the "first simulated bombing in history, using an aeroplane versus... |
| Date: | 05 25 1938 |
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| Description: | Visitors examining machinery displays in International Harvester's touring diesel engine exhibit. |
| Date: | 05 25 1938 |
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| Description: | Visitors entering the trailer of International Harvester's touring diesel engine exhibit. |
| Date: | 03 08 1939 |
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| Description: | Man at the parts counter of an International Harvester dealership owned by the Great Lakes Supply Corp. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Worker painting wagon trucks at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works in Auburn Park. The factory was owned by the Weber Wagon Company until 1904, wh... |
| Date: | 08 11 1911 |
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| Description: | Souvenir postcard sent to Harriet O'Shea of Madison from an unidentified friend who attended the Chicago International Aviation Meet. The Chicago meet, whi... |
| Date: | 06 15 1936 |
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| Description: | International C-1 "industrial motion picture sound truck" in transit along a Chicago city street. The truck was owned by the Chicago Film Laboratory. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | International Harvester's McCormick Works on the river with railroad tracks and a cargo dock. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Com... |
| Date: | 1926 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International trucks featuring illustrations of trucks delivering food to areas in Africa and the Middle East. The text describes a ... |
| Date: | 06 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Men loading crates of Kingsbury Pale Beer onto an International B-4 truck outside the Kingsbury Beverage Company. The truck had a 170-inch wheelbase. The w... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Small vegetable store known as the North Shore (Home Grown) Vegetable House, along the north shore of Lake Michigan. To the right of the store two men are ... |
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| Description: | Workers in Carl Bates' airplane factory in Chicago. The history of Bates' various aviation enterprises is sketchy, but it is known that he built airplanes ... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | Cicero Field flight instructors Edward Finan (left) and DeLloyd Thompson seated in a Wright Model B airplane at the Chicago International Air Show. The pla... |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Chicago Tribune cartoonist John T. McCutcheon with his Wright Model B airplane, probably photographed at Cicero Field. McCutcheon is sometimes referred to ... |
| Date: | 08 1912 |
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| Description: | The monoplane built by Carl S. Bates, an aeronautical inventor originally from Clear Lake, Iowa. |
| Date: | 1894 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring a chromolithograph of Worlds Fair foreign commissioners observing Deering grain bin... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for William Deering & Company featuring chromolithograph illustrations of the Deering factory, the grain center of the worl... |
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