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Boxed Artillery Cart Ready for Shipment

Date: 05 17 1918
Description: Boxed 240 mm mortar cart ready for shipment to the U.S. military from International Harvester's McCormick Works. Includes a trench mortar barrel. A man is ...
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International 8-16 Tractor and "Dynamometer"

Date: 07 16 1930
Description: Engineering photograph of an International 8-16 tractor providing belt-driven power to an enclosed trailer with the International Harvester logo on its doo...
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McCormick-Deering No. 8 Harvester-Thresher

Date: 10 26 1928
Description: McCormick-Deering No. 8 harvester-thresher (combine) in a factory yard.
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McCormick-Deering No. 8 Harvester-Thresher

Date: 08 01 1927
Description: McCormick-Deering No. 8 harvester-thresher (combine) in a factory yard.
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Family Posing near Porch of House

Date: 1874
Description: A family stands in the yard, on the porch, and on the porch roof of an impressive house with elegant scrollwork on its porch posts and roof. A bird cage ha...
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Family by Stone House

Date: 1879
Description: Family in front of fence with stone house that has a fan window on the side, two small stone additions and screen door in background. There is a log buildi...
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People by House with False Storefront

Date: 1872
Description: People standing in front of a house with a false storefront. A man is standing on the porch by a hand-pump. There is a woodpile in the yard behind a woman ...
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Crated Machine Gun Cart at McCormick Works

Date: 05 17 1918
Description: Crated "U.S. Machine Gun Cart" outside in factory yard.
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Reaper in Factory Yard

Date: 09 03 1912
Description: An experimental reaper(?) in a factory yard. There is a Russian name on the Reaper, and the front is set up on saw-horses. Men are working near a brick fac...
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Operating Machinery Outdoors

Date: 1915
Description: A young boy in overalls operates a machine, perhaps a pump for water, underneath a windmill. There are overturned buckets in the foreground. An elderly man...
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Barn and Woodshed

Date: 07 01 1962
Description: View of a barn and woodshed on Mr. Conrad Breunig's farm.
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Lumber Yard

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Description: Elevated view across railroad tracks of a lumber yard. A two-story building on the right has a sign that says: "Lovejoy & Ringham". There are fences, a sto...
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Cheese Factory

Date: 1922
Description: Exterior of a two-story cheese factory. The building features a set of stairs leading to the second-floor entrance and three chimneys. There is a large pil...
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Condensery

Date: 1925
Description: View across railroad tracks of a condensery building. The building features two-stories, a crow-stepping roof, and a tall chimney exhausting smoke. A railr...
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High School

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Description: Exterior of the high school. The building features a bell tower, tall chimney, arched doorway and Dutch/Flemish gable. On the surrounding lawn, there is a ...
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New High School

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Description: The exterior of the high school. The building features a bell tower, tall chimney, arched doorway and Dutch/Flemish gable. There is a hand-powered well nea...
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Fillmore Street

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Description: Snow-covered backyards in town with stacks of logs, probably Fillmore Street between First and Second Streets. The brick building in the background is prob...
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Farm Yard with Windmill

Date: 1900
Description: Three people stand in the farm yard. The man on the right is feeding chickens, a woman in the center stands holding an apron. The man on the left is carryi...
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Eagle Corners School

Date: 1932
Description: Students and their teacher, Gladys Hofseth (back row, far right), pose outside Eagle Corners School. The school is a wood frame building with an enclosed p...
Postcard

Commercial Hotel

Date: 06 28 1915
Description: Photographic postcard of the exterior of the three-story Commercial Hotel. The building has a false front. Two women stand on the balcony and two men stand...

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