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| Date: | 04 07 1933 |
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| Description: | Schlitz train and group of revelers, celebrating the end of prohibition in Milwaukee. Schlitz Engine #8027 departs to deliver the first Schlitz beer at 12:... |
| 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: | 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: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Painting by N.C. Wyeth depicting the public demonstration of the first reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick at Steele's Tavern, Virginia in 1831. The painting sh... |
| Date: | 1968 |
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| Description: | Hubert H. Humphrey speaking to factory workers through a megaphone from the back of a convertible. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Elevated view over crowd of people towards a man standing on a platform, possibly Cyrus McCormick III. He is speaking to a large group of people gathered o... |
| Date: | 06 24 1948 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Freedom Train, on the tracks behind the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad station, 644 West Washington Avenue. The Freed... |
| Date: | 1914 |
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| Description: | A group of men and women surround O.H. Benson as he gives a canning demonstration in the office of County Superintendent Tobin. Canning equipment stands on... |
| Date: | 1931 |
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| Description: | Poster commemorating the 100-year anniversary of the invention of the reaper by Cyrus Hall McCormick (reaper centennial). The poster features a color repro... |
| Date: | 1972 |
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| Description: | "As Mayor John Lindsay leaves the bus, he is mobbed by onlookers, and greeted by John Widmer." |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | View from behind the counter of men lined up in the Second Office of the State Employment Agency. Three people in the foreground are providing assistance, ... |
| Date: | 08 22 1966 |
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| Description: | Workers, managers, and officials look on as the 4,000,000th truck produced at Springfield Works is celebrated. |
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| Description: | "Testing of First Reaper at Steele's Tavern." Second version illustrating occasion. |
| Date: | 09 20 1928 |
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| Description: | Workers leaving yard of IH plant. Railroad tracks are in the foreground, and a large smokestack is in the background on the right. |
| Date: | 09 23 1911 |
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| Description: | Railroad workers and a crowd of other men, women, and children standing and walking near the wreckage of a freight train. The engine and tender are lying o... |
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