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| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | Workers assembling engine components and tightening head bolts along an assembly line at International Harvester's Tractor Works. |
| Date: | 08 06 1914 |
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| Description: | Rear view of company photographer setting up shot of IHC's McCormick Works docks from across the waterfront. Two men are in a long wooden boat, with the na... |
| Date: | 09 20 1928 |
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| 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... |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Workers inspecting rows of IHC engines at International Harvester's Deering Works. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company before 1902, and ... |
| Date: | 06 21 1911 |
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| Description: | Man sitting on an experimental lightweight tractor. The photograph was probably taken outside International Harvester's McCormick Works. Original caption i... |
| Date: | 05 03 1886 |
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| Description: | Photograph of a painting depicting police in a horse-drawn wagon firing into a crowd of striking workers near the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company fact... |
| Date: | 1942 |
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| Description: | Factory workers at International Harvester's West Pullman Works inspecting 37-millimeter shells. |
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| Description: | Workers hand wind filament on transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and manufacturer of el... |
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| Description: | Workers get transformers ready for distribution in the shipping department at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago... |
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| Description: | Speed presses stamp out core laminations for transformers at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. Chester Thordarson was a Chicago inventor and man... |
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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... |
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| Description: | Workers construct a 1,000,000 volt coil at Thordarson Electical Manufacturing Company. |
| Date: | 08 08 1914 |
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| Description: | A photographer is standing near a camera on the bank of the Chicago River. He likely works for International Harvester Company and appears to be photograph... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Fullerton Avenue side of the Deering Works (factory) building. Two cars are parked just inside the factory gate. Before 1902, the buil... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | Two factory workers standing on a freight elevator, silhouetted by light from an open window behind them. The men probably worked at International Harveste... |
| Date: | 12 20 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men working at machines in an International Harvester engineering shop. The original caption reads: "Scene from International Harvester Co... |
| Date: | 12 20 1943 |
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| Description: | Research engineer A.B. Welty stands next to the moisture controlling device at International Harvester Company's farm machinery engineering department. The... |
| Date: | 12 20 1943 |
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| Description: | Men working in the sheet metal shop of the farm machinery engineering department of the International Harvester Company. The original caption reads: "Part ... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | The original photograph caption reads: "Carl Mott, research engineer in International Harvester Company's farm engineering machinery department in Chicago,... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Arnold Batson works with natural and synthetic rubbers in the rubber laboratory at the Gas Power Engineering Department. The original caption reads: "Exper... |
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