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| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
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| Description: | Fire fighting scene in which a man is at the top of a very tall ladder mounted on a hook and ladder fire truck. A group of men observe. A haze of smoke fil... |
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| Description: | Unidentified paper mill. The holding pond for the paper mill is in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Deering Works factory seen across the waterfront from Diversey Avenue. In the foreground is a street and sidewalk with the sign "horse vehicles keep to rig... |
| Date: | 11 16 1922 |
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| Description: | Tractor bearing signs reading "old no. 13; International Harvester Co.; sold in 1906 - used for 16 years still going strong... " and "see me at the Wheat S... |
| 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: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Workers loading and unloading wood at the wood stock yard of the McCormick Reaper Works. Men are working on both sides of the Chicago River. Rail cars and ... |
| Date: | 09 20 1923 |
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| Description: | Alexander Legge (1866-1933) with a pitchfork full of hay at a Thresher demonstration at International Harvester's Hinsdale farm. Men are milling around a t... |
| Date: | 12 03 1920 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of a man testing an experimental motor cultivator. Original caption reads: "In this job the cultivator is set farther ahead than in... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Engineering photograph of an experimental, reversible, early Farmall (?) tractor with attached cultivator. |
| Date: | 06 16 1963 |
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| Description: | View across parking lot towards the Kimberly-Clark Paper Company plant. |
| Date: | 09 29 1963 |
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| Description: | The Menasha Woodenware plant and water tower on Doty Island from across the Fox River canal, with a small railroad dolly in the foreground. |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the riverfront, railroad tracks, and river, "as viewed from Joseph McGuire's." |
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| Description: | Train station with several men, including one standing atop a large water tower. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline toward the mill on the opposite shoreline. Caption reads: "Kimberly Pulp and Paper Mill, near Appleton, Wis." |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | View of the Fox River. The Green Bay Drop Forge Company are on the left, and the Reiss coal yard is in the distance in the center. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the Green Bay (later Hoberg) Paper and Fibre Company, from the back. Stacks of logs are in the foreground near water. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Hoberg Paper and Fibre Company buildings along the East River. Ice is on the river in the foreground. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Northern Paper Mills' chimney, water towers, buildings, and lumber yard, seen from the Fox River. |
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