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Schmidt and Glade Brewers

Date: 1870
Description: Group portrait of workers, a young boy and a dog outside the Schmidt and Glade Brewery posing with tools and barrels.
Photograph

Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr.

Date: 1880
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr. (1859-1936). Mr. McCormick was the oldest son of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884). He was ...
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Leander J. McCormick

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Description: Engraved portrait of Leander James McCormick (1819-1900) by the Century Publishing and Engraving Company. Leander was a younger brother of Cyrus Hall McCor...
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Cyrus Hall McCormick and his Wife Nettie

Date: 1884
Description: Portrait of Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884) with his wife Nettie Fowler McCormick (1835-1923). McCormick was a Chicago industrialist and inventor in 1831 ...
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Worker in front of Furnace at IHC McCormick Works

Date: 09 1908
Description: View of worker with a grey beard and hat standing and posing in front of a furnace inside IHC McCormick Works foundry.
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Employees at Office Christmas Party

Date: 12 1928
Description: International Harvester employees standing around a Christmas tree and Santa Claus during an office party. Many of the workers are wearing party hats and s...
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Harold Fowler McCormick, Stanley Robert McCormick and Cyrus Hall McCormick

Date: 01 07 1884
Description: Family portrait of inventor and industrialist Cyrus Hall McCormick (1809-1884), and his two sons, (L to R), Harold Fowler McCormick (1872-1941), and Stanle...
Book or Pamphlet

Deering Corn Machine Catalog

Date: 1916
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for International Harvester's Deering line of corn machines, showing an old man next to a scarecrow with a jack-o-lantern f...
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Marsh Binder Advertisement

Date: 1883
Description: Front cover of an advertising brochure for the Marsh-Whitney Platform Binder, manufactured by the Marsh Binder Manufacturing Company. Includes the text: "t...
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Sient Marris

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Description: Studio portrait of Sient Marris, the 1st Brigade's quartermaster.
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Reverend E.P. Wheeler

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Description: Studio portrait of the Reverend E.P. Wheeler who founded Northland College.
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Edmund Andrews, Surgeon

Date: 1869
Description: Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Edmund Andrews (1824-1904), Vermont-born surgeon. Andrews served as Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the Universit...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

Underground Newspaper Cover: The Chicago Seed

Date: 1968
Description: Cover of "The Chicago Seed," an underground newspaper, featuring Santa Claus crucified on a dollar sign. The landscape below is made from collaged advertis...
Photograph

McCormick Reaper Works Employees

Date: 1890
Description: A group of factory workers sit on wooden benches in front of a brick building to have their portrait taken. The workers were employees of the McCormick Rea...
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Republican Presidential Nomination Candidates

Date: 06 05 1884
Description: Engraved portraits of candidates for the Republican Presidential Nomination. Chester A. Arthur, General John A. Logan, George Franklin Edmunds, and James G...
Photograph

Union Christmas Party

Date: 12 21 1951
Description: The annual children's Christmas Party sponsored by United Packinghouse Workers local 42 in East St. Louis. With Santa Claus is local president John Condeli...
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William B. Franklin

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Description: Engraved three-quarter length carte-de-visite portrait of Major General William B. Franklin, a corps commander of the U.S. Army of the Potomac, seeing acti...
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Ulysses S. Grant and Wife

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Description: Engraved carte-de-visite portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife.
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John McArthur

Date: 1865
Description: Vignetted portrait of Brigadier General John McArthur. At the start of the Civil War he was a colonel of an Illinois volunteer regiment, but after the Batt...
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Men Looking at Papers at Desk

Date: 04 1929
Description: Professor Perry G. Holden (right) and George W. Anstrand sitting behind a desk and looking at papers.

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