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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: | 04 21 1919 |
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| Description: | Workers digging an intermediate bin for mine no. 2. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Steel C... |
| Date: | 06 20 1933 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery and used to provide... |
| Date: | 06 20 1933 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of eleven workers installing Plibrico Jointless Firebrick in front of a railroad steam locomotive parked beside Fauerbach Brewery. This was ... |
| Date: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Two construction workers with hard hats at the World Trade Center. |
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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: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two workers in coveralls and hardhats underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine near Hibbing, Minnesota. |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Two workers, both in overalls and hardhats, use tools underground at International Harvester's Hawkins Mine in Hibbing, Minnesota. One man uses a drill wh... |
| 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: | 1969 |
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| Description: | Three construction workers, two in the hole, and one above, digging at the World Trade Center construction site. |
| Date: | 06 13 1913 |
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| Description: | Workmen and machinery at the quarry on Blackhawk Bluff. The gravel was used in construction of the power dam. |
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| Description: | Three male employees appear to be preparing for a casting in sand. One man holds a hose in his hand while another has a shovel and the other a long metal p... |
| 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: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | A factory worker uses an oxy-acetylene torch to fit a copper tube in the production of an aircraft torpedo. He is wearing an International Harvester Compan... |
| Date: | 10 31 1938 |
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| Description: | A man smoking a cigarette shovels what appears to be gravel onto the back of an International D-30 truck marked "City of Quincy" from a train car. |
| 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... |
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