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Quitting Time at McCormick Reaper Works

Date: 1900
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...
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IH Industrial Power Division

Date: 10 06 1946
Description: Branch managers tour Melrose Park Works.
Postcard

McCormick Family Residence

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Description: McCormick family residence showing circular fountain.
Postcard

Harold McCormick Mansion

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Description: Harold McCormick Mansion. View is showing steps at the rear of the house.
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Villa Turicum

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Description: A view of the cut flower vegetable garden at Villa Turicum.
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Grounds at Walden

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Description: The grounds at "Walden", residence of the Cyrus McCormick, Jr. family, showing an outdoor table and two chairs under a pergola.
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McCormick Rush Street Home Exterior

Date: 1879
Description: The facade of the McCormick family residence at 675 Rush Street, which takes up an entire block between Erie and Huron Streets. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Sr. h...
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Walden Facade

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Description: Facade of "Walden", the Cyrus McCormick, Jr., family estate.
Poster

Mogul Tractor Test Track Advertising Poster

Date: 1915
Description: Advertising poster for Mogul tractors featuring an elevated view of a Mogul 8-16, 12-25 and 30-60 tractors on a test track in Chicago, Illinois. Includes t...
Poster

The Burning of Chicago

Date: 1871
Description: Bird's-eye view of the Chicago fire of October 8, 1871. The hand-colored lithograph was published by Currier and Ives.
Photograph

J. Cunradi's Drugstore

Date: 1890
Description: Customers gathered outside the J. Cunradi Drugstore. A sign above the awning identifies the store as a Deutsche Apotheke, or German apothecary.
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Excursion steamer Christopher Columbus leaving Chicago

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Description: The screw passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," leaving Chicago. Skyline of Chicago is in background with one building with sign reading Armo...
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Lady Elgin Docked

Date: 1859
Description: Lithograph from Frank Leslie's Illustrated News of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois in 1860. From a pho...
Print

Transit Company Dinner Menu

Date: 07 04 1931
Description: Inside of Saturday dinner menu for the "North American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Bouleva...
Photograph

Lady Elgin at dock

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Description: A sketch of the sidewheel passenger, Lady Elgin, at her wharf in Chicago, Illinois.
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Pharmaceutical Delivery by Bicycle

Date: 03 11 1949
Description: A delivery boy straddles his bicycle, ready to make a delivery of medicine for the Pekin Prescription Laboratory.
Print

"South American" Tuesday Luncheon Menu

Date: 1928
Description: Inside of Tuesday luncheon menu for the "South American." Includes drawings of Niagara Falls, New York, Old Fort Mackinac Island, Michigan, Michigan Boulev...
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North Town Apothecary

Date: 11 29 1949
Description: Exterior view of the North Town Apothecary.
Postcard

Steamship "Christopher Columbus" (Whaleback)

Date: 1912
Description: The passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," entering harbor. Caption reads: "Steamship 'Christopher Columbus' (Whaleback), Entering Harbor at ...
Postcard

Steamer "Christopher Columbus"

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Description: The whaleback "Christopher Columbus" in the Chicago River. Caption reads: "STR. 'Christopher Columbus'."

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