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| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Factory workers using a pulley to load castings onto a table at International Harvester's Tractor Works. The factory produced tractors (including Farmall A... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A male employee of the McCormick Twine Mill works with sisal fiber as it comes out of a finisher machine and piles into metal buckets. The machine is belt-... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Technicians standing and sitting in the paint(?) laboratory at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. Tables are equipped with burners, beakers and other supp... |
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| Description: | Lantern slide illustration of the interior of the McCormick Reaper Works(?) as it appeared in 1860. Shows men stoking a boiler, working at a work bench, a... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Men working with molds at International Harvester's Plano Works. One worker is standing at a workbench. The factory was later known as "West Pullman Works.... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men working with hot metal in what appears to be a forge at the McCormick Reaper Works factory. |
| Date: | 03 29 1937 |
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| Description: | Factory workers seal cork insulation between an inner and an outer steel box at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | A man wearing protective gloves is shoveling metal pieces into a radiant tube clean hardening furnace at West Pullman Works. |
| Date: | 1924 |
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| Description: | A factory worker makes an adjustment to a large weight on a scale in front of a cloth backdrop. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | View across foundry floor of factory workers in a large room with high ceilings, vent hoods and skylights at McCormick Works. Two men in the middle ground ... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory worker hardens tractor parts in "one of a battery of gas-fired box type heat treating furnaces." |
| Date: | 1907 |
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| Description: | Factory workers in the machine shop at International Harvester's Milwaukee Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Factory workers pouring hot metal into molds, most likely at the McCormick Reaper Works in Chicago. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A factory worker, facing away from the camera, is standing on a wooden bench and is using a tool to reach into a furnace at the McCormick Reaper Works. Mol... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of factory workers at stations in the Shredder Department at the McCormick Works. |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Men use teams of horses to excavate a lot to be used as the site for the future McCormick Twine Mill. |
| Date: | 04 23 1906 |
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| Description: | Two men standing on what appears to be a factory floor, probably the McCormick Works, oiling a wheel. The man on the left is dressed in suit pants, vest an... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | A factory worker is sitting on a cart on at International Harvester's Osborne Works. Behind him are stacked pieces of lumber. Hooks hang from the ceiling. ... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| 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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