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McCormick Catalog Cover

Date: 1896
Description: Color lithograph cover illustration for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company catalog. A small illustration at the top right is of a man using a horse-d...
Photograph

Assembling a Wagon at Weber Works

Date: 1918
Description: Men working on a wagon truck inside International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works. A completed Weber wagon and a large American flag are in the background. T...
Photograph

Workers Leaving McCormick Works

Date: 09 20 1928
Description: Stream of factory workers leaving International Harvester's McCormick Works. A sign along the front of the factory reads: "'Quality is the Foundation of ou...
Book or Pamphlet

Champion Machine Company Catalog

Date: 1869
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for Champion reaping and mowing machines manufactured by the Champion Machine Company. The cover features a color illustra...
Photograph

Doctor's Office

Date: 11 28 1922
Description: Newly constructed doctor's office. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers employed in the mines of its subsidiary, ...
Photograph

100,000th International Farmall Celebration

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view over crowd towards an executive who is speaking to workers assembled by the receiving department at Farmall Works to celebrate the 100,000th ...
Photograph

Harvester Employees(?) Grouped for Parade

Date: 1918
Description: Group of men and women, many holding American flags, on top of and around a wagon or an International truck on a city street. The truck has a banner which ...
Photograph

100,000th Farmall Celebration

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view over crowd of people towards a man standing on a platform, possibly Cyrus McCormick III. He is speaking to a large group of people gathered o...
Photograph

Branch Manager with Honor Roll

Date: 1942
Description: S.E. Foster, manager of International Harvester's Little Rock branch house, stands beside the branch honor roll of enlisted International Harvester men. Al...
Photograph

U.S. General at Harvester Exhibit

Date: 1944
Description: Major General Lucius D. Clay, Director of Material, U.S. Army, examines a scale model of the 57-millimeter gun at the International Harvester exhibit at th...
Photograph

War Work Demonstration

Date: 1944
Description: A woman sits behind a glass wall while operating a piece of machinery as part of an International Harvester display recruiting additional workers during Wo...
Photograph

Farmers with Titan Tractors and Combines

Date: 1918
Description: View across field towards six men harvesting what appears to be wheat using International Titan 10-20 tractors and combines (harvester-threshers).
Photograph

International Harvester Workers on Strike

Date: 01 30 1941
Description: Elevated view of striking International Harvester factory workers holding signs and an American flag as they stand near the company's Tractor Works.
Photograph

Farm Equipment Workers Union Mass Meeting

Date: 11 05 1945
Description: Elevated view of members of the Farm Equipment Workers Union meeting in a parking lot of the McCormick Works factory located at the corner of Oakley and Bl...
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McCormick General Office Building

Date: 1875
Description: Newspaper engraving of the building at Randolph and Dearborn Streets that served as the McCormick General Office from 1879 to 1885. An American flag flies ...
Manuscript

Oliver Hart-Paar Tractor Booklet

Date: 1937
Description: Front cover of a booklet advertising Oliver Hart-Paar tractors featuring a color illustration of a farmer using a tractor and plow in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Buckeye Calendar — February and March

Date: 1893
Description: Calendar with the months of February and March, 1893. Features an illustration of a woman sitting on the top of a globe. She is holding a wreath, and is re...
Book or Pamphlet

Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Company Brochure Cover

Date: 1893
Description: Front cover of a brochure for Champion Mowers and Binders. Features a color illustration of the office building of the Warder, Bushnell and Glessner Compan...
Print

Watson Manufacturing Co. Advertisement

Date: 1885
Description: Advertisement for Watson-Deering Twine Binder for 1885. The illustration features a rear view of a man using a team of horses to pull a twine binder throug...
Photograph

Large Group of People in front of the International Harvester Co. Plant

Date: 1920
Description: View across street towards a large group of people gathered in front of the International Harvester Co. plant. Some of the people in the crowd are holding ...

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