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Metal Finishing Room at McCormick Works

Date: 1900
Description: Men working at tables in the metal finishing room of the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Stacks of parts are piled on the floor, and a hat and coat are han...
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Factory Workers at the McCormick Twine Mill

Date: 1900
Description: "Knotter men" work at tables in the McCormick Twine Mill. Windows line one wall of the brick room, and a system of belt-driven machinery is arranged along ...
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Processing Facility

Date: 1902
Description: Men standing around a brick processing facility that may be near a body of water. A burn-barrel is in the foreground.
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Widmer Cheese Factory Chimney

Date: 03 1979
Description: "Mason, Reuben Schuster, lays brick on the Widmer Cheese Factory chimney."
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Construction Work at Osborne Works

Date: 1910
Description: Several men are standing and sitting around a construction site at International Harvester's Osborne Works. Lumber is stacked in the yard, and in the backg...
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Construction Work at the Osborne Works

Date: 1915
Description: Several men are standing around a construction site at International Harvester's Osborne Works. There are wheelbarrows filled with building materials and s...
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Construction Work at the Osborne Works

Date: 1910
Description: Four men are lifting a large piece of beam during the construction of a factory building, most likely at International Harvester's Osborne Works. There is ...
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Old Man at Osborne Works

Date: 1910
Description: An elderly factory worker is standing in a dusty room holding a large pole at International Harvester's Osborne Works. He is dressed in dark work pants, a ...
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Man Stretching Baling Wire

Date: 03 31 1908
Description: Man stretching baling wire next to a brick building.
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Manufacturing Area — Binder Attachment

Date: 1900
Description: Interior view of men working in the binder attachment room at McCormick Works. The worker's coats and hats are hung up high on the brick wall between the l...
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Women Workers at Chaney Instrument Company

Date: 1943
Description: Five women are sitting around a table with machinery and various pieces of equipment. Three of the women are drinking coffee, and one woman is smoking. Wom...
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Oscar Mayer Ice Making

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Description: View over metal forms towards two men who are using ice picks to move the ice from the forms out onto the floor. Large windows are on the far wall in the b...
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Oscar Mayer Ice Making

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Description: Two men dressed in lab coats and hats are holding pick axes to move ice bricks out from metal containers in the foreground. A line of ice bricks are behind...
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Oscar Mayer Ice Cooler Room

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Description: Four men are in a large room with a high ceiling. Three of the man are on the floor working to move ice bricks towards the stack of ice in the background. ...
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Piles of Lumber in Plant Yard

Date: 03 12 1914
Description: Men are standing on top of a pile of lumber unloading pieces of wood with a rope and pulley attached to a pole at the top of the pile. At the base of the l...
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Contact Sheet-Slaughtering Pigs

Date: 1947
Description: A contact sheet showing workers slaughtering and butchering pigs at Tobin Packing Co. The image at bottom right is of a man in a white coat sitting behind ...

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