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Date: | 12 26 1982 |
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Description: | A Target retail store is flooded with customers returning Christmas gifts. |
Date: | 1948 |
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Description: | McCormick-Deering Farmall H tractor in a fall setting. A hunter, Mr. Vinson E. Gritten, is holding up a dead rabbit for William Foreman and Junior Scott (b... |
Date: | 1952 |
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Description: | Publicity photograph showing a little girl sitting on the running board of an International R-series pickup truck and eating an apple while her father pick... |
Date: | 04 1917 |
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Description: | Children working in an urban community garden. Original caption reads: "Scene in Harrison Street Community Garden showing each plot staked off. Up to 1917 ... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Several farmers and farm laborers, including a handful of children, at work harvesting grain with a McCormick grain binder in a field. |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Farm scene of foreman watching five farm hands reaping grain with cradles as children, women and field hands help gather it into bundles. |
Date: | 08 05 1927 |
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Description: | Elephants drinking water from a wagon pulled by a McCormick-Deering industrial tractor outside a circus tent belonging to the Sells-Floto Circus. Circus wo... |
Date: | 09 06 1988 |
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Description: | A young girl listens to a speech at the Racine Laborfest. She holds a balloon imprinted with the slogan, "Buy Union Buy American." |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | European(?) farmer harvesting grain with a horse-drawn McCormick grain binder as a young girl with water jug looks on. Two farm hands are in the background... |
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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: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men and boys working with steel rods and belt-driven machinery to make bolts inside an annex to the blacksmith shop at the McCormick Reaper Works. The fact... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Workers, including some boys, threading bolts with heavy machinery in the Nut and Bolt Department at the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by t... |
Date: | 1899 |
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Description: | Elevated view of farmers lined up in horse-drawn wagons loaded with their new McCormick farm machines. Their wagons are adorned with "McCormick" signs and ... |
Date: | 1950 |
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Description: | People gather around a table of food for the First Unitarian Society's "Work Day". The building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and some of the construc... |
Date: | 01 07 1884 |
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Description: | Family portrait of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), and his two sons, (L to R), Harold Fowler McCormick (1872-1941), and Stanle... |
Date: | 1900 |
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Description: | Men, women, and children - likely tenant farmers or "sharecroppers" - picking cotton by hand. |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Gardener Edward Schuetz and four sons posing with his delivery truck loaded with vegetables for market. The truck is not an International model. |
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: | 1935 |
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Description: | A female snake charmer with the Cole Brothers Circus, watched by two children. |
Date: | 1896 |
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Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for the Milwaukee Harvester Company, featuring a color chromolithograph illustration of a young boy and girl playing along ... |
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