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Dickey Chapelle Covering Operation Inland Seas

Date: 07 1959
Description: Dickey Chapelle, photographer, on the same Milwaukee beach where she learned to swim as a young girl. She was covering "Operation Inland Seas" celebrating ...
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Tobacco Farming

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Description: Farmers harvesting and loading tobacco on a tobacco rack to take to a shed.
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Physician inside McCormick Works Infirmary

Date: 11 05 1914
Description: Factory doctor sitting in a doctor's office or first aid station at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
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Drilling(?) Parts at Deering Works

Date: 1930
Description: Factory workers drilling(?) parts at International Harvester's Deering Works. The factory was owned by the Deering Harvester Company before 1902, and was l...
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Norris & Rowe Circus Personnel

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Description: A group portrait of Norris & Rowe circus performers outside a tent at winter quarters, including clowns, riders, and high wire performers.
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Harvesting Tobacco Leaves

Date: 1939
Description: Field workers gathering and spearing cut tobacco leaves.
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Farmers Servicing Farmall Tractor

Date: 09 20 1935
Description: Men refueling and lubricating a Farmall tractor at a small service station on the farm of Tom Lanerty as a boy is looking on.
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Packinghouse Workers

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Description: Packinghouse workers splitting a carcass into halves.
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Farmers Unloading Milk Cans

Date: 1876
Description: Farmers off-loading milk cans from their wagons at the creamery. One man is operating a hoist, lifting a can to pour the milk down a chute.
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Farmall Cub with Danco Snowblower

Date: 1960
Description: A man driving a Farmall Cub equipped with a Danco snowblower clears a road of snow.
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Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Ribes eradication crew of Indian women on the Menominee Reservation pose together in a line.
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Menominee Women's Crew

Date: 1943
Description: Menominee women working to protect their white pines from blister rust.
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Grain Binder

Date: 1910
Description: A man leads two mules pulling a McCormick grain binder.
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Workers at McCormick Works

Date: 1911
Description: Factory workers assembling a machine at International Harvester's McCormick Works.
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Cotton Picker

Date: 06 28 1944
Description: Engineering photograph of a man behind the wheel of a "1944 season" cotton picker mounted on a Farmall B tractor. There is a large canvas behind the cotton...
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Employee with Bowl Casting

Date: 10 29 1965
Description: A male employee inspects a discharge bowl that was later purchased by Fairbanks Morse and Company of Beloit, Wisconsin, and used by the Department of the I...
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Miller Delivery Wagon

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Description: Man standing in front of horse-drawn wagon loaded with barrels of beer from the Miller Brewery. The sign near the wagon seat reads: "No.2" and the sign pai...
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Testing an 1831 Reaper Replica

Date: 1929
Description: A production still for the Fox Hearst film "Romance of the Reaper". The film was produced by International Harvester at Walnut Grove to celebrate the Reape...
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Washing Cylinder Blocks at Indianapolis Works

Date: 1938
Description: Factory worker at International Harvester's Indianapolis Works (Truck Engine Works). Original caption states: "A Blakeslee washing machine for washing cyli...
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Russell Motor Patrol on Highway 12

Date: 07 20 1927
Description: Emil Anderson operating a road grader marked "Russell Motor Patrol No.3" on Highway 12.

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