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Red Wing at Steamboat Landing

Date: 1909
Description: The sternwheel excursion, Red Wing, with the excursion barge, Mae, at a landing. Caption reads: "Saint Paul, Minn. Steamboat Landing."
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The "Vernie Mac" at Taylor Falls

Date: 1900
Description: A fire fighter's excursion on the "Vernie Mac" at a landing near Taylor Falls on the St. Croix River between Minnesota and Wisconsin. Excursion barge is a...
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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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Balloon Ascension

Date: 1908
Description: A balloon about to ascend in Minneapolis. John Schwister, who later built the Minnesota-Badger airplane, is in the front of the gondola, with his back to t...
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Schwister's Minnesota-Badger

Date: 1912
Description: John Schwister at the controls of the "Minnesota-Badger," the plane he built in St. Paul, Minnesota and Wausau, Wisconsin. The passenger beside Schwister i...
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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...
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Worker Entering War Production Slogan Contest

Date: 05 25 1942
Description: Factory worker Bill Niskala submitting an entry for a war production slogan contest conducted by International Harvester's Production Drive Committee. The ...
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National Open Golf Tournament

Date: 1930
Description: Golfer tees off in the 1930 National Open Golf Tournament at the Interlachen Country Club while KSTP radio broadcasts from their first mobile remote broadc...
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Delivery of 4-H Accounting Award

Date: 05 20 1936
Description: 4-H County Agent Ray Aune delivers a McCormick-Deering cream separator to Miss Luella Pagel. Ms. Pagel was the winner of the state 4-H Accounting Award. Pi...
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Farmer Moves Hay with International Model H Truck

Date: 1919
Description: Farmer in an International Model H truck loaded with hay. A barn and silo are in the background. The H was produced from 1915-1923.
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Farmall Cub Presentation Demonstration

Date: 1947
Description: Five female Harvester employees perched on a McCormick-Deering Farmall tractor in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Taken at Farmall Cub Presentation Demonstration. ...
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Cub Cadet Pulling Batting Cage

Date: 1962
Description: Color photograph of a man pulling a batting cage with a Cub Cadet lawn tractor at Metropolitan Stadium, home of the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Vikings.
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Men Sitting in Antique International Auto Wagon

Date: 1945
Description: Men sitting in an International Auto Wagon in front of the Minneapolis International motor truck branch. The men are Red Pierson (front, left), Duane Kuntz...
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International LB-110 Truck

Date: 1950
Description: Color photograph of a man delivering Bamby brand baked goods to a residential neighborhood. The truck is one of twenty-five International LB-110 trucks ope...
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Leech Lake Agency Medical Care

Date: 1901
Description: Dr. Stephenson, Leech Lake Agency physician, and assistants prepare a small pox patient for removal to the hospital.

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