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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... |
| 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: | 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... |
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| Description: | Train station with several men, including one standing atop a large water tower. |
| Date: | 03 1911 |
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| Description: | Workers use a rail car mounted crane to load pilings onto a barge. Bluffs are in the distance. |
| Date: | 08 09 1929 |
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| Description: | Driver sitting in an International truck operated by the Mobiloil Company. Text on the side of the truck reads: "The World's Quality Oil." |
| Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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| Description: | A group of men line up for their pay at an armored International Model 63 truck used by the City of New York Department of Finance. The truck is guarded by... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Two men place a bale of cotton on top of a pile on the back of a mule-drawn wagon. They are near what appears to be a weighing station on a wooden platform... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | View from water of Pawling & Harnischfeger 5-ton monorail hoist with a lumber handling unit, possibly in Pensacola, Florida. The monorail track extends ove... |
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| Description: | Milwaukee Electric Crane & Manufacturing Company single leg gantry crane handling steel at the Racor Pacific Frog and Switch Works. There are a couple of m... |
| Date: | 12 16 1936 |
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| Description: | A man places a bag onto the bed of an International C-1 truck owned by the Chicago Rock Island Railroad. The truck is marked with the text "No.9" and "Wate... |
| Date: | 02 09 1951 |
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| Description: | Striking workers near a railroad crossing march in a circle holding handmade signs. |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | A man is pulling an eight-wheeled wagon down a dirt road using an International 8-16 tractor. A fence and water tower are in the background. |
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| Description: | View across water of the dredge "Winneconne" on the Fox River canal. Although undated the photograph was probably taken during the 1940s. The "Winneconne"... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | The Municipal Light and Power Plant and water tower seen from across a pond. |
| Date: | 1905 |
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| Description: | View down railroad tracks, showing the switching station, water tank, and buildings. Two men stand on the railroad tracks. Ester Point is near Cassville, W... |
| Date: | 03 21 1997 |
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| Description: | "The base of the new water tower is now taking shape." |
| Date: | 05 23 1997 |
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| Description: | "Workmen weld the base of the water tower." |
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