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| 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: | 12 26 1930 |
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| Description: | A machinist working at the Charles H. Halperin machine shop, located at 209 S. Park Street. |
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| Description: | The general press room is where sheet metal is made into housing for transformers, and fibre and bakelite insulators are formed at Thordarson Electical Man... |
| Date: | 06 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue. Slightly elevated view of the offset press room. Workers include fiv... |
| Date: | 06 04 1947 |
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| Description: | Credit Union National Association Bridge magazine, 1342 East Washington Avenue, showing two men with the folding machine. |
| Date: | 1976 |
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| Description: | Front cover of a French brochure advertising the International 165 Crawler Loader. The caption reads: "Chargeur a Chenilles 165 International." The photogr... |
| Date: | 1937 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster for International industrial equipment, including crawler tractors (TracTracTors), industrial tractors and shop mules. Includes photo il... |
| Date: | 1895 |
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| Description: | Cover of an advertising catalog for D.M. Osborne and Company showing a "scene in the Osborne rolling mill." The Osborne company manufactured agricultural m... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Lorraine Gray collecting her pay in cash at the paymaster's office at the RMR (Ruben-Mallory-Ray-O-Vac) plant, a division of Ray-O-Vac located in the 1400 ... |
| Date: | 01 20 1927 |
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| Description: | A group of men line up for their pay at an armored International Model 63 truck used by the City of New York Department of Finance. The truck is guarded by... |
| Date: | 07 01 1949 |
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| Description: | Bing Moy presses shirts at the steam press at Moy's Laundry, 112 N. Pinckney Street. |
| Date: | 07 1942 |
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| Description: | Photographic copy of an advertisement featuring two film strips with scenes from the movies "The Strong Shall be Free" and "The Marines Have Landed." The m... |
| Date: | 12 17 1934 |
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| Description: | A man loads boxes marked "Sky Flake Biscuits" onto the bed of an International Model C-35 truck owned by the National Biscuit Company. Advertisements on th... |
| Date: | 1950 |
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| Description: | An International L-182 truck owned by the Arizona Distributing Company parked near an opened garage door of a warehouse. The truck advertises Miller High L... |
| Date: | 1975 |
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| Description: | Children of unemployed members of the Amalgamated Clothing workers picket with their parents to protest low-wage clothing imports. They carry signs that re... |
| Date: | 1901 |
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| Description: | Lithographed poster depicting an elevated view of the Warder, Bushnell, and Glessner factory and surrounding area. Text in the upper left corner reads, "Ch... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising the new A-7 and A-8 models of International trucks. The poster features an illustration of a man behind the wheel of a truck marked "Mut... |
| Date: | 1932 |
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| Description: | Poster advertising International trucks as used by the bottling industry. The poster features a color illustration of two children drinking bottled beverag... |
| Date: | 03 17 1925 |
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| Description: | An International Model 43 truck owned by Whitmier & Ferris Company parked along the bank of a river where men are constructing the framework to a billboard... |
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