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| Date: | 1879 |
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| Description: | Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 of the first commercially successful reaper, a hor... |
| Date: | 08 23 1933 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of six customers celebrating Bootleg Days at Arthur Janik's tavern "The Balcony Inn" at Lincoln and 33rd Streets. Arthur Janik was the propri... |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | The farmer and his wife are making soap outdoors. Lye is made by letting rain water seep through wood ashes for several months. Lye and fat produce soap. T... |
| Date: | 04 18 1913 |
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| Description: | View near crane operator looking down on coal car near exterior of building. Pawling & Harnischfeger type "O" bridge crane with a type "G" trolley in a fou... |
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| Description: | Plate Steel Spiral Casing for 70,000 horse-power Niagara Falls hydraulic turbine unit at the Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company erecting shop. The castin... |
| Date: | 1919 |
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| Description: | Elevated interior view of the Boone Tire Factory. Men are lined up along a wall with open windows. They are each using a stand to hold a wheel while wrappi... |
| Date: | 01 1924 |
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| Description: | Gerald J. Boileau, assistant district attorney, and George Lippert, district attorney, and three other men, exhibiting slot machines seized during a raid i... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of workers filing out of the gates of the McCormick Reaper Works at the end of a work day. The factory became part of the International Harve... |
| Date: | 1886 |
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| Description: | Advertising poster showing color illustration of pioneers on a bluff overlooking a McCormick binder harvesting grain in the valley below. The poster bears ... |
| Date: | 1883 |
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| Description: | Advertising lithograph depicting the first public demonstration of a mechanical reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steeles Tavern, Virginia, in 1831. The sc... |
| Date: | 1899 |
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| Description: | Color lithograph color illustration from the back of an advertising catalog printed for the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company showing an arch commemorat... |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Factory worker tightening bolts on a Farmall tractor on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. |
| Date: | 1952 |
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| Description: | Factory workers on the assembly line at International Harvester's Farmall Works. The men are working on Farmall tractors. |
| Date: | 1858 |
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| Description: | Advertising handbill for the Champion reaper and mower produced by Whiteley, Fassler & Kelly of Springfield, Ohio. |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Herman Kruse (left) and Ed Papke (right) on the occasion of Papke's retirement. Papke was a founding member of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of Americ... |
| Date: | 02 1948 |
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| Description: | Paul Steffes, secretary-treasurer of Local 75, United Automobile Workers (Seaman Body Company) at his desk. |
| Date: | 11 08 1947 |
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| Description: | Prize winners at a costume dance sponsored by Local 1114, United Steelworkers of America (Harnischfeger Corporation). |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | The landing of the "Spirit of St. Louis," carrying Charles Lindbergh. |
| Date: | 12 11 1954 |
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| Description: | Members of Local 7, Amalgamated Lithographers of America, relaxing after a union meeting. |
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