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Workers Celebrate War Production at McCormick Works

Date: 05 25 1944
Description: Group of McCormick Works employees holding up Army-Navy "E" banner with torpedo in foreground. The McCormick Works was built by Cyrus McCormick in 1873 and...
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IH Industrial Power Division

Date: 10 06 1946
Description: Branch managers tour Melrose Park Works.
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McKay Nursery

Date: 05 07 1937
Description: Large group of employees standing beside trucks parked in front of McKay Nursery.
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McKay Nursery, Trucks and Employees

Date: 05 07 1937
Description: Large group of employees standing beside trucks parked in front of McKay Nursery building. Alternate view.
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Gardner Baking Co. Employees

Date: 10 14 1934
Description: Group portrait of Gardner Baking Co. drivers/salesmen from out of town, taken outdoors near 849 E. Washington Avenue. Breese Stevens Field is in the backgr...
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Railroad Car Load of Culverts

Date: 07 20 1932
Description: Group of men sitting on top of railroad flatbed car loaded with culverts. Sign above them reads: "Capital City Culvert Company," 1335 Gilson Street.
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Potosi Brewery Employees

Date: 1900
Description: Brewery employees, many of them from the Schumacher family, posing with barrels outside the brewery.
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50,000 Ford Motor Company Employees

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Description: Thousands of employees appear in a composite photograph representing 50,000 employees of the Ford Motor Company. A company building reading "Ford Motor Com...
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Senior High School

Date: 1897
Description: Workers pose on scaffolding in front of the Senior High School during construction. A child and a man with a bicycle are on the lower left side underneath ...
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Weber Works Office Staff Portrait

Date: 1917
Description: The office staff of International Harvester's Weber Works are posing beneath an American flag in front of the exterior office door. Weber Works produced wa...
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Milwaukee Harvester Works

Date: 1912
Description: Exterior view of the Milwaukee Harvester Works. View from hill towards a large crowd of workers, mainly men and boys, posing in front of the factory in an ...
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Three Male Construction Workers

Date: 1969
Description: Three construction workers standing near a truck outside the office for the Sand Chapter of Mechanical Contractors at the construction site for the World T...
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100,000th Crankcase at Melrose Park Works

Date: 03 1974
Description: A group of male and female workers are posing around a sign and a crankcase sitting on the factory floor. The sign reads "Melrose Park Plant / March, 1974 ...
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Indianapolis Truck Engine Works

Date: 1956
Description: Factory workers pose at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works. Original caption states: "First 26 employees at the new Indianapolis truck engine wor...
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Dixie Bottling Company Trucks

Date: 09 04 1925
Description: Two men sit in International trucks parked outside the Dixie Bottling Company building. Another man stands in the background, near the building for the bot...
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Golden Guernsey Dairy Employees

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Description: An outdoor group portrait of the employees of the Golden Guernsey Dairy, posed in front of the building.
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South African Deering Office

Date: 10 22 1925
Description: Six male staff members standing on the sidewalk in front of a Deering dealership in South Africa. The "Deering" brand was sold by International Harvester C...
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Libby Strikers

Date: 03 1950
Description: Publicity pictures of striking employees of the Libby company, all members of the United Packinghouse Workers of America.
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Foundry Workers at Fairbanks, Morse & Company

Date: 1925
Description: Five foundry workers at Fairbanks, Morse & Company, taking a break just outside the door of the building. Workers names: Solomon Deberry, Curtis Barber, tw...
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Curtis & Yale Plant 1 Workers

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Description: Group of men posing in front of Curtis and Yale Co. Plant one. A number of workers are looking out from windows in the building. Other workers pose on a wa...

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