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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of what appears to be the McCormick Reaper Works, with the west fork of the south branch of the Chicago River in the foreground. Smokestacks, railroad... |
| Date: | 04 06 1933 |
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| Description: | International trucks owned by the Chicago Tribune line up in front of the Chicago Sunday Tribune building. Buildings on the Chicago skyline are in the back... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Three men are looking at a trailer with a woman posing on roof holding a paintbrush to a painted mural. One of the men is Ricardo Alonzo, muralist and dire... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across river towards the McCormick Works. Railroad cars are on railroad tracks near the factory buildings. Stacks of lumber are stacked in front of th... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over rooftops of the McCormick Works. Beyond the rooftops is a lumber yard. A river is in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View of a Daisy Reaper displayed on the cobblestones in front of a factory building. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Exterior view in winter of the McCormick Works Club House. The factory buildings are in the background. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of buildings at McCormick Works. On top of the building in the foreground is a large smokestack, and four water towers behind it on the top o... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of McCormick Works. Lumber is stacked in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across water towards McCormick Works. Lumber is stacked in the foreground. Along the far shoreline are railroad cars on railroad tracks. Smok... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from shoreline over canal towards McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of McCormick Works. In the foreground are powerlines, and beyond are railroad tracks and a locomotive pulling railroad cars. Near the factory... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of McCormick Works. Advertisement are painted on the sides of a building on the left, and on the bottom left are billboards. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of McCormick Works, with construction of wheel shop. Streetcars are along the street in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over canal of docks and ships at the dock. In the background are railroad cars on a railroad track, factory buildings, and smokestacks. |
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| Description: | View across water towards factory building at McCormick Works. Railroad cars are in the yard in front of the building. |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Detailed drawing of an elevated view of the building layout at Whitman & Barnes Mfg. Co. in West Pullman, Chicago, Illinois. |
| Date: | 01 1929 |
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| Description: | Southwest view of 50 E. Huron Street. This house was the residence of Cyrus McCormick Jr. Snow is on the ground. Tall buildings and a water tower are in th... |
| Date: | 08 08 1908 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of International Harvester plant. |
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