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| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Men working in the forge shop of the McCormick Reaper Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company. In 1902 it became the McCor... |
| Date: | 1870 |
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| Description: | Group portrait of workers, a young boy and a dog outside the Schmidt and Glade Brewery posing with tools and barrels. |
| Date: | 1912 |
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| Description: | The passenger excursion vessel, "Christopher Columbus," entering harbor. Caption reads: "Steamship 'Christopher Columbus' (Whaleback), Entering Harbor at ... |
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| Description: | The whaleback "Christopher Columbus" in the Chicago River. Caption reads: "STR. 'Christopher Columbus'." |
| Date: | 1863 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the steamboat Golden Era, which did service during the Civil War, docked near buildings. It was sold to Michael Purcell of New Orle... |
| Date: | 1916 |
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| Description: | International Model E highwheeler truck adorned with American flags, advertising banners, and a statue of a sprite named "Prospy." "Prospy" was a little ma... |
| Date: | 01 13 1937 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of men at work on an engine block inside the service shop of a McCormick-Deering dealership owned by C. Scheler and Son. In background are In... |
| Date: | 1915 |
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| Description: | International Titan 45 tractor pulling a 42,000 pound load on an attached wagon car in front of a warehouse owned by Merchants Transfer and Storage. The Ti... |
| Date: | 07 1939 |
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| Description: | Two workers wave from the seats of a Farmall A tractor and an International TD-18 diesel crawler tractor (TracTracTor) outside International Harvester's Tr... |
| Date: | 08 24 1937 |
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| Description: | Worker moving Trans World Airlines DC-3 (DC-2?) airplane with an International industrial tractor outside the TWA hangar at Chicago's Municipal Airport (la... |
| Date: | 05 1907 |
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| Description: | International Auto Buggy parked on a street outside a brick building. The back of the print is stamped "Experimental Department, General Office, rec'd June... |
| Date: | 01 19 1910 |
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| Description: | Worker assembling the spokes of a wooden wagon wheel at International Harvester's Weber Wagon Works in Auburn Park. The factory was owned by the Weber Wago... |
| Date: | 1944 |
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| Description: | Men working on combines (harvester-threshers) on an assembly line at International Harvester's East Moline Works. The factory was constructed in 1933 and w... |
| Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of people gathering around an air shaft of a mine in after a mining disaster. Caption reads: "(?) at Mine Disaster showing wrecked ai... |
| Date: | 11 13 1909 |
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| Description: | Photographic postcard of an elevated view of people walking to the mine (in the distance) after a disaster. Caption reads: "Scene at Mine Disaster, Cherry,... |
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| Description: | Elevated view of lumberyard at International Harvester's McCormick Works as seen from across the water. The original caption reads as follows: "We think of... |
| Date: | 02 26 1925 |
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| Description: | Workers setting type for printing documents or labels at a print shop operated by International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department(?). |
| Date: | 1850 |
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| Description: | Blast furnace, also known as a Scotch hearth used in lead mining. |
| Date: | 1911 |
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| Description: | Factory employees standing next to a large machine at International Harvester's McCormick Works. The factory was owned by the McCormick Harvesting Machine ... |
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