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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view across canal of the McCormick Reaper Works, rail yard, and surrounding buildings. After 1902, the factory became International Harvester's Mc... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Northwestern Manufacturing Company plant. Caption reads: "Birds-eye View showing Northwestern Mfg. Co.'s Plant, Fort Atkinson, Wis." |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Panorama of International Harvester's Milwaukee Works factory building. The factory was owned by the Milwaukee Harvester Company before 1902. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Rock River, with a large smokestack and water tower on the left. Richard Lloyd Jones was born in Janesville in 1873 and lived there u... |
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| Description: | Elevated exterior view from across a street of the Golden Guernsey Dairy. Trucks are visible in open garages. |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An International L-205 truck owned by the Golden Brand Products Company drives down a road in front of industrial buildings. The truck is marked: "Burgerme... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | Side view of a man driving a team of three horses pulling an Oliver plow across a field. A large building, houses, and a water tower are in the background. |
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| Description: | View across water toward the back and side of the plant. Three young men in bathing suits sit on a wall over the bridge to the right. |
| 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... |
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| Description: | Letterhead of the Sanitary Refrigerator Company of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, manufacturers of wood and steel refrigerators, with an elevated three-quarter vi... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Advertisement for the La Crosse kerosene tractor featuring photographs of the tractor in use on farm jobs. The headline reads: "The HAPPY FARMER Really Bur... |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View across road of the central business section. The commerical buildings along the sidewalk include a printer, butcher, barber and jeweler. Above the sho... |
| Date: | 09 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of farmers with horse-drawn wagons waiting to ship their harvest goods, probably potatoes, at an unidentified town. There are railroad tracks... |
| 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: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View from across street towards the State Bank at 7-9 S. Pinckney and Washington Avenue. There is an automobile and a pickup truck parked in front of the b... |
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| Description: | View across East Washington Avenue towards the Case Building, also Kayser Motors, on the corner of Blount Street. Painted signs on the windows of the build... |
| Date: | 07 1936 |
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| Description: | Aspen logs are stacked in rows in front of the buildings of the American Excelsior Company. There are large frame buildings on the left, and a water tower ... |
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