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Date: | 10 17 1939 |
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Description: | Women working in casing department at the Oscar Mayer & Company meat packing plant, 910 Mayer Avenue. |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Factory workers on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. The men are working on Farmall tractors. |
Date: | 03 22 1948 |
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Description: | Strike kitchen of Local 50, United Packinghouse Workers of America (Plankinton Packing Company). Left to right: Al Herold (chef), Ernie Bernie, Jimmy Glov... |
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Description: | A woman is being waited on by a man standing behind the counter of a grocery store. Canned goods are stacked on shelves along the wall behind the counter. |
Date: | 1941 |
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Description: | Two patrons and bartender at Chet's tavern. The bartender is pulling bottles of Schlitz beer out of an International No. 4 De Luxe dry type beverage cooler... |
Date: | 03 26 1925 |
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Description: | Employees packaging company publications for shipment in a warehouse. The warehouse is possibly part of Harvester Press. Publications may include advertisi... |
Date: | 11 03 1934 |
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Description: | Charles Palmeri, aka Pasquale, in an apron, receives a check from James Lewis, Special Deputy representing the street banking commission, to settle his acc... |
Date: | 03 18 1913 |
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Description: | Factory worker preparing a harrow spring tooth for a heat treating furnace at International Harvester's Osborne Works. |
Date: | 03 18 1913 |
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Description: | Factory workers testing newly manufactured harrow spring teeth at International Harvester's Osborne Works. The factory was owned by the D.M. Osborne Compan... |
Date: | 1919 |
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Description: | Worker adding pin striping to parts of wagon trucks at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works in Auburn Park. The factory was owned by the Weber Wagon... |
Date: | 10 01 1945 |
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Description: | Female worker using a stub lathe to turn, face, groove and "chamfer" chain-tightener sprockets at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The sprocket... |
Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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Description: | Female workers sewing canvas side folds on binder aprons at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in ... |
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Description: | Miners probably grading galena (lead) ore by putting pieces in drums with holes and letting smaller ones fall through. |
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Description: | View of worker hammering away on IHC mower cutter blade inside shop room at McCormick Works. |
Date: | 06 19 1907 |
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Description: | Waitress tending a table in the dining room of the McCormick Works Club House. |
Date: | 1930 |
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Description: | Factory workers cutting pieces of sheet metal at Internaitonal Harvester's Deering Works. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company before 190... |
Date: | 10 12 1944 |
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Description: | Fred Boyle, clerk at the post office, looks overwhelmed surrounded by a mountain of Christmas parcels to be sorted for shipment overseas to men and women i... |
Date: | 07 1917 |
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Description: | A factory worker painting the United States insignia on a bi-plane wing. |
Date: | 07 31 1950 |
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Description: | A woman wearing an apron posing with a refrigerator in a photography studio while a photographer takes a picture for advertising. |
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... |
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