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McCormick Works Stock Yard

Date: 1900
Description: Small carts, stacks of lumber, and rail cars in a snow-covered yard at the McCormick Reaper Works. The original caption reads: "Foundry #28, Wheel Room, Bl...
Photograph

Limited Production Motor Cultivator

Date: 12 28 1917
Description: Engineering photograph of a limited production motor cultivator. Original caption reads: "The cultivator used in connection with this development was subst...
Book or Pamphlet

IHC Farm Engines Catalog Cover

Date: 1911
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for IHC farm engines. Features a color illustration of a Titan tank-cooled skidded oil engine floating above a farmstead wi...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Harvesting Machines Catalog Cover

Date: 1913
Description: Front cover of advertising catalog for the Deering line of IHC harvesting machines. Cover features a chromolithograph of a field scene with shocks of wheat...
Drawing

The Teenie Weenies: Grandpa Tells a Story

Date: 01 21
Description: "Grandpa Tells a Story." In this drawing, a weasel follows Grandpa home through the snow. Will he make it back home before dark?
Photograph

International Harvester Employees Writing in Snow

Date: 1920
Description: Elevated view from a window of the International Harvester offices on Michigan Avenue showing Grant Park. Company employees have written their department n...
Photograph

Webb TB Album: Horses Were Useful

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Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of ot...
Photograph

Webb TB Album: Andy, Again

Date: 
Description: A page from a scrapbook created by Andrew Webb Jr. when he was a patient at the Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from 1931-1934, with images of An...
Photograph

Prairie Court Housing Development

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Description: Exterior view of the Prairie Court Housing Development, located at 26th and South Parkway in Chicago. This 14 story apartment building was designed by Kec...
Photograph

Corn Binder Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Corn binder, with attachments and stalkers, set up on snow-covered cobblestones in front of brick factory buildings.
Photograph

Daisy Reaper Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Daisy Reaper set up on the snow-covered cobblestones in front of brick factory buildings.
Photograph

Mower Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: Mower set up on the snow-covered cobblestones in front of a brick factory building. In the background a man is standing on the wooden sidewalk near the doo...
Photograph

McCormick Binder Displayed Outdoors

Date: 1900
Description: McCormick binder set up on the snow-covered cobblestones in front of a brick factory building. In the background a man is standing between two brick buildi...
Photograph

Winter View of the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view across street in winter of the McCormick Works Club House. In front of the club house is a man standing on a loaded horse-drawn wagon parked ...
Photograph

Winter View of the McCormick Works Club House

Date: 1900
Description: Winter view of the McCormick Works Club House. There are building materials for the front walk way near the curb.
Photograph

Palmer Mansion

Date: 1925
Description: View from across street towards a worker shoveling a sidewalk in front of the Potter Palmer mansion on North Lake Shore Drive. The three-story granite face...
Photograph

Fire on Wabash Avenue

Date: 01 28 1918
Description: Streams of water from fire hoses are trained into the upper windows of a storefront which is encased in thick ice. A written description of this photograph...
Photograph

McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Exterior view of McCormick Works.
Photograph

Twine Mill Under Construction

Date: 1900
Description: Elevated view of a twine mill under construction. There is a large smokestack in the center. Snow is on the ground.
Photograph

Original Lumberjack Band

Date: 1923
Description: Members of a band posing outdoors for a group portrait with their musical instruments. The band members are wearing coats and hats, and a few are wearing m...

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