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| Description: | Men, women and children dig and rake the soil at the Deering Works employee gardens. The gardens appear to be located in a residential neighborhood. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for McCormick-Deering Primrose Dealers. The ad tells of a prize Primrose dealers are able to compete for. The poster was made for use in... |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | Advertisement sent to International Harvester dealers promoting the 1925 McCormick-Deering farm equipment calendar. The calendar features an illustration o... |
| Date: | 05 25 1938 |
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| Description: | Visitors entering the trailer of International Harvester's touring diesel engine exhibit. |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | Sculptor Jean Pond Miner working on her statue "Forward" in the Wisconsin Building at the Columbian Exposition. |
| Date: | 03 17 1959 |
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| Description: | Spectators view paintings by Paul Gaugin at the opening of an art exhibit at the Art Institute of Chicago. |
| Date: | 1892 |
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| Description: | Family portrait of (L to R), Emmons Blaine, Jr. (1890-1918), Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923), and Anita McCormick Blaine (1866-1954). |
| Date: | 1885 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of Anita McCormick Blaine (sitting center), and four female friends: unknown (standing left), Susie Day (standing right), Katharine Isham (s... |
| Date: | 05 09 1917 |
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| Description: | Mrs. Streeter, wife of Chicago eccentric George Wellington Streeter, posing with her dog in her garden in "Streeterville." |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Three women and a man dumping the beans they've picked into wooden containers at a vegetable garden northwest of Chicago. |
| Date: | 05 1917 |
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| Description: | Large crowd of school children and adults gathered for a school garden dedication. Original caption reads: "Mr. Prost making a talk at a garden dedication ... |
| Date: | 1917 |
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| Description: | Two women and a young girl gathering vegetables in the Deering Works vegetable garden. Original caption reads: "This garden furnished a bountiful supply of... |
| Date: | 07 1932 |
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| Description: | African American woman tending to her plot in the McCormick Works' garden. The garden was one of several factory gardens created under International Harves... |
| Date: | 07 1932 |
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| Description: | Mother and her two daughters posing near a version of International Harvester's logo at the McCormick Works community garden. The garden was one of several... |
| Date: | 11 02 1948 |
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| Description: | WENR in Chicago broadcasts the first live national television presidential election returns when Truman upset Dewey. |
| Date: | 1904 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising brochure for Plano light running harvesting machinery, featuring an illustration of a young woman holding a bundle of wheat over he... |
| Date: | 1897 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Plano Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of grain binders, mowers, headers, reapers, and hay rakes. The cover fea... |
| Date: | 1891 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a farmer working in a field with a grain binder. A young man holds a par... |
| Date: | 1890 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for harvesting machinery made by the Plano Manufacturing Company. Features a color illustration of a woman on a stage crown... |
| Date: | 01 31 1926 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of the members of International Harvester's women's choral society. The members worked in the company's general office. A woman in the front... |
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