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Quitting Time at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
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...
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Steam Shovel Digging Borrow Pit

Date: 03 01 1919
Description: Workers digging a "borrow pit" for no. 2 mine with a steam shovel. The men are standing along a set of narrow gauge railroad tracks. Benham was a "company ...
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Miners with Mine Sprinkler

Date: 1919
Description: Three miners with a mine sprinkler inside a mine shaft. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for the workers of the Wisconsin Ste...
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Construction of Railroad Dock

Date: 03 29 1919
Description: Men building a dock along railroad tracks. The tracks run along a stream or small river. Benham was a "company town" created by International Harvester for...
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Construction of Lubertzy Works

Date: 1910
Description: Construction workers on a building site at International Harvester's Lubertzy Works in Russia.
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McCormick-Deering Tractor and Plow

Date: 05 04 1923
Description: Carl Seamonson plowing a field with a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor and plow.
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Hough HE Payloader Loading Snow into Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Hough HE Payloader loading snow into a truck. The HE was built by Frank G. Hough Company, a Libertyville, Illinois, manufacturer of construction equipment.
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Men Laying Rails at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: A group of men laying rails at Hawkins Mine while a man in the background is using surveying equipment near the base of a cliff face.
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Factory Workers Pushing a Cart

Date: 01 19 1916
Description: Two men demonstrate the "old way" of hauling using a push cart loaded with 2,200 pounds. The men are likely factory workers at Osborne Works (also known as...
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Factory Worker Hauling Carts of Parts

Date: 01 13 1916
Description: Factory working demonstrating the "new way" of hauling by pulling carts loaded with 16,000 pounds of parts using a shop mule. The man is most likely a work...
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Women Outside of the Deering Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: View across railroad tracks towards a group of five women in white aprons standing at the side of a factory building, possibly Deering Twine Mill. Other wo...
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Loading Platform at McCormick Works

Date: 1936
Description: Factory workers on the loading platform in the Repair Parts Department at McCormick Works.
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Train Carrying McCormick-Deering Combines

Date: 1930
Description: A train carries McCormick-Deering harvester-threshers (combines) bouind for North Dakota farms. A sign on the train reads: "McCormick-Deering Harvester-Thr...
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Man Waving from "Trainload of Twine"

Date: 1949
Description: A man hangs on to the side of a train from a ladder and waves his hand. Original caption reads: "Giving his engineer the 'highball' upon arrival of the 25-...
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Men Moving Cargo at St. Paul Works

Date: 1941
Description: Factory workers unloading a rail car on a loading dock at International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption reads: "Medium Caliber Artillery Gun M...
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Preparing St. Paul Works for Gun Manufacture

Date: 09 19 1941
Description: Factory workers use a crane mounted on a truck to unload a transformer on the loading dock of International Harvester's St. Paul Works. Original caption re...
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10-20 Tractor in Railroad Yard

Date: 04 18 1926
Description: A worker uses a McCormick-Deering 10-20 tractor to pull a platform along tracks in a railroad yard outside a factory or other type of industrial building.
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Loading Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: Worker loads sisal leaves onto a small train car at an International Harvester plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Loading leaves on the train car...
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Worker Loading Rail Car with Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: A worker loads bundled leaves on to a rail or tram car in the middle of a field on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Caption on photogra...
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Tractor Train Carrying Bundled Sisal Leaves

Date: 1949
Description: A worker stands next to a tractor train on an International Harvester sisal plantation in Cuba. Original caption reads: "Tractor train of leaves ready to l...

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