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| Date: | 1934 |
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| Description: | International Harvester Company parade float for the "A Century of Progress" Worlds Fair. The two-section float is parked in front of the Field Museum and ... |
| Date: | 03 26 1925 |
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| Description: | Employees packaging company publications for shipment in a warehouse. The warehouse is possibly part of Harvester Press. Publications may include advertisi... |
| Date: | 01 27 1925 |
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| Description: | Workers stitching and printing labels on burlap bags used to store balls of binder twine at International Harvester's McCormick Twine Mill. The McCormick w... |
| Date: | 12 15 1926 |
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| Description: | Cyrus McCormick, Jr., Cyrus McCormick III, and other International Harvester executives stand near a replica of the original McCormick reaper as a crowd lo... |
| Date: | 01 13 1943 |
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| Description: | Female workers assembling torpedoes for the U.S. Military at an International Harvester factory. Original caption reads: "This large group of women employe... |
| Date: | 07 22 1936 |
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| Description: | Men in the Repairs Department Sales Room at the McCormick Works factory. |
| Date: | 1930 |
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| Description: | Male and female factory workers at West Pullman Works sitting at tables in a large room to work with metal parts. |
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| Description: | View down a tree-lined residential street. A horse-drawn carriage stands on the street and the large columned porches of houses can be seen through the tr... |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | A view of the corner of Sixth and Broadway showing a residential district with mansions, lush lawns and tree-lined streets. Two women pedestrians traverse ... |
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| Description: | The lobby of the Hotel Emmerson. In the back of the room are two men standing at the front desk. Opened in 1926 as the New Mt. Vernon Hotel, the building q... |
| Date: | 08 1930 |
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| Description: | View from sidewalk of the landscaping outside a public library in St. Charles, Illinois. |
| Date: | 08 1927 |
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| Description: | A woman wearing a house dress, stockings, and heeled shoes standing on the porch railing of a brick house to hang what appears to be clothesline from porch... |
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| Description: | View from porch of Saint Viator College across the common with a U.S. flag on a tall flagpole. The college was founded in 1865. |
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| Description: | View from a porch across the campus grounds of Illinois State Normal University, established in 1857. The castle-like building exhibits a tall tower to the... |
| Date: | 1893 |
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| Description: | A view of the World's Columbian Exposition mounted on a cardboard album page, looking east from the Transportation Building. On the right are the Mines Bui... |
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| Description: | Exterior of the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Hall. There are a mortar and cannon balls near the front columns flanking the entrance, and a large Ame... |
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| Description: | Promotional postcard with three city scene sketches and thirty-one characteristics of the city listed. Caption reads: "Kankakee the Rising City Beautiful." |
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| Description: | Slightly elevated view of a crowd of pedestrians passing the Marshall Field's department store (Marshall Field & Co.), built in 1892 by Daniel H. Burnham a... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the business district and skyline. The Wrigley Building and clock tower stands in the foreground; it was built in 1920 by William Wrigley ... |
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