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| Date: | 1880 |
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| Description: | Engraving for "Peterson's Magazine" of women in maids' uniforms sliding down an icy path in the snow. |
| Date: | 04 03 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory worker in soiled clothing standing among wooden barrels in a snow-covered factory yard. The man most likely worked at International Harvester's Osb... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | Hough HE Payloader loading snow into a truck. The HE was built by Frank G. Hough Company, a Libertyville, Illinois, manufacturer of construction equipment. |
| Date: | 02 25 1947 |
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| Description: | Four men wrestling with escaped pigs in the backyard of a home in the Nakoma neighborhood. A truck loaded with about 80 hogs overturned in the 3600 block o... |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from a window of the International Harvester offices on Michigan Avenue showing Grant Park. Company employees have written their department n... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | Pawling & Harnischfeger gasoline powered crane mounted on a 5-ton standard flatbed railroad car with a grab bucket. A man is standing on the ground on rail... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | A man is sitting behind the wheel of an International Model D-300 truck used by the Montreal Tramways Company. A man in the back of the truck is holding a ... |
| Date: | 01 22 1935 |
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| Description: | A man unloads a box from an International Model C-1 truck with a 125-inch wheelbase parked in front of a grocery store. The text on the truck reads: "Canad... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations including the hiring of low paid worker... |
| Date: | 1965 |
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| Description: | Iowa Beef Packers, later IBP, revolutionized the meat industry during the 1960s by introducing numerous innovations. The use of low wage workers led to con... |
| Date: | 12 1947 |
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| Description: | A man stands next to an automobile in front of Du Bois Super Service at 1 North Mills Street (at the Corner of Regent Street), owned by Louis A. Du Bois. A... |
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| Description: | A group of about two dozen male city employees, three carrying shovels, stand in front of the double doors of a large brick building. There is a wooden wal... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | View from shoreline of a crane lifting machinery to workers at the top of the bridge during construction. Words on the crane reads, "Stevens Brothers and S... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | The entrance to the bridge during construction. A worker works on the side of the bridge on the right. Other workers in the middle of the bridge lay boards... |
| Date: | 1959 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of a factory worker using a forklift on a loading dock to move a field harvester on a pallet at International Harvester's McCormick Works. An... |
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| Description: | View of four men of the U.S. Signal Crew out on a dogsled to repair a break in a telegraph line. There are cabins in the background. Copyright by A.J. John... |
| Date: | 07 09 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men load blocks of ice from a loading dock onto the bed of an International D-30 truck owned by the Hygeia Ice Company. |
| Date: | 09 21 1937 |
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| Description: | A man stands in a lift attached to the bed of an International Model DR-60 truck owned by the Wisconsin Ice and Coal Company. Another man stands atop a rai... |
| Date: | 04 08 1938 |
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| Description: | Men use shovels and pitchforks to unload large pieces of coal from the beds of two International D-30 trucks into a small doorway of a building. The trucks... |
| Date: | 1938 |
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| Description: | Two men load large pieces of coal onto the bed of an International D-30 truck from the open door of a railroad boxcar. There is a storage building in the b... |
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