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Employee(?) Instruction at St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill

Date: 1930
Description: Employees(?) learning about a chain drive gear at the St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. Portraits of George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and an advertising p...
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Processing Fibre at St. Paul Flax Twine Mill

Date: 1910
Description: Workers operating machines for separating fibre (fiber) from straw inside the St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill. The factory was owned and operated by the Inter...
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Steam Locomotive Pulling Crane at Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Steam locomotive moving an overhead crane used to lay rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine. One man is standing on the right, and another man i...
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Crane Laying Rails for Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Workers and a steam railroad crane laying rails for International Harvester's Hawkins Mine.
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Miners at Work inside Hawkins Mine

Date: 1945
Description: Two miners at work with shovel and hammer inside International Harvester's Hawkins Mine.
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Hawkins Mine Employee

Date: 1945
Description: Worker at a Hawkins Mine machine shop checking a measurement on a large casting under a trouble light. Hawkins Mine was a subsidiary of International Harve...
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International Harvester Spreader Delivery Day

Date: 04 25 1914
Description: Farmers posing with their new International horse-drawn manure spreaders in the streets of a rural town. The "spreader delivery" day was organized for publ...
Book or Pamphlet

Minneapolis Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1885
Description: Cover of an advertising brochure for the Minneapolis Harvester Works, manufacturers of twine binders and other agricultural implements, featuring a chromol...
Book or Pamphlet

St. Paul Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1883
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the St. Paul harvester and Appleby cord binder manufactured by the St. Paul Harvester Works. The cover features a black...
Book or Pamphlet

St. Paul Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1882
Description: Cover of a catalog for the Saint Paul harvester and cord binder, "The Pioneer Cord Binder of the World," manufactured by the Saint Paul Harvester Works. Th...
Print

Deering Trade Card

Date: 1881
Description: Advertising card for Deering harvesting machinery showing young boys operating a grain binder drawn by oxen. The caption reads "the Deering binder at work ...
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St. Cloud Branch House

Date: 1912
Description: Men stand on a street in front of an International Harvester branch house.
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St. Paul Flax Twine Mill

Date: 1906
Description: Men unloading flax straw from railroad cars in front of Storage Building No. 3 at International Harvester's St. Paul Flax and Twine Mill.
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St. Paul Flax Twine Mill

Date: 1906
Description: Factory workers balling flax twine at International Harvester's St. Paul Flax Twine Mill.
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IH Ad Men

Date: 06 14 1924
Description: A group of International Harvester "advertising men" line up in front of a building.
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Minnesota International Harvester Dealership

Date: 02 25 1927
Description: A man, possibly proprietor Charles C. Matezcvk(sp?), stands in the doorway of an International Harvester dealership. Advertising pennants and farm machines...
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"McCormick Day" in Owatonna

Date: 1899
Description: Elevated view of a large crowd gathered on a dirt road in front of a strip of commercial buildings to celebrate the arrival of a McCormick agricultural equ...
Photograph

First Avery 20-35 Tractor

Date: 1915
Description: Rear view of a man using an Avery 20-35 tractor and a disc harrow to work in a field.
Book or Pamphlet

Back Cover of Minneapolis Harvester Works Catalog

Date: 1881
Description: Features an illustration of men working in a field with a Dewey Harvester pulled by a team of two horses.
Book or Pamphlet

Minneapolis Harvester Works Brochure

Date: 1882
Description: Advertising brochure for the Minneapolis Twine Binder. Features a 2-panel inside spread with a color illustration titled: "Minnie looks after the sheaves."...

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