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Milking Holsteins

Date: 1932
Description: View inside barn of Holsteins lined up for milking.
Print

Engraving "Men of Progress, American Inventors"

Date: 05 22 1935
Description: Engraving of "Men of Progress, American Inventors."
Photograph

Elevated View of Manufacturing Area

Date: 1930
Description: Elevated view of factory floor at McCormick Works.
Photograph

Disk Harrow Disks

Date: 12 31 1935
Description: Accident in plant, showing Disk Harrow disks in storage area.
Photograph

Coin for Centennial of the Reaper

Date: 1931
Description: Coin for the centennial of the reaper 1831-1931.
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Elevated View of Manufacturing Area

Date: 1930
Description: Slightly elevated view of factory floor at McCormick Works.
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Fertilizer Attachments Crated for Shipping

Date: 10 13 1936
Description: Two McCormick-Deering fertilizer attachments crated for shipping.
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Parts Hanging in Manufacturing Area

Date: 03 16 1933
Description: Parts are hangng in a room at Auburn Works. On the wall in the background are controls set in boxes with glass doors.
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Man Standing in Field of Wheat

Date: 08 09 1937
Description: Man standing in the middle of a field of wheat.
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Workman on Crutches

Date: 04 12 1933
Description: A man is standing indoors on crutches.
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Man Plowing in Orchard

Date: 1931
Description: View through an orchard towards a man using a horse-drawn hand plow.
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#8A Tractor Disk Harrow and Land Packer

Date: 05 19 1932
Description: #8A disk harrow and a land packer in a field pulled by a tractor.
Photograph

International Harvester's Auburn Works

Date: 07 19 1935
Description: Exterior of International Harvester's Auburn Works factory (formerly known as "Osborne Works").
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Boy Riding Pony Posing near Holstein Bulls

Date: 1932
Description: Outdoor portrait of a boy posing on a pony near a group of Holstein bulls.
Photograph

Oil Lamp

Date: 1930
Description: An old oil lamp with a cut cased glass font and a cast metal base in the form of a cavalier.
Photograph

Fertilizer Distributor

Date: 07 25 1935
Description: A Fertilizer Distributor in a building, perhaps a factory. Sign painted on the side reads: "Made in Sweden."
Photograph

International Harvester Factory Worker

Date: 08 13 1936
Description: African American factory worker in a ragged sweater standing outside International Harvester's Osborne Works (later Auburn Works).
Drawing

Peasant Leaning on Cultivator

Date: 1931
Description: Drawing of a man wearing wooden clogs, leaning on a cultivator hand tool in a field. Another man works in the far background.
Photograph

Portrait of Man

Date: 07 05 1934
Description: Full-length portrait of a man wearing a business suit and eyeglasses standing near bushes alongside a brick building.
Photograph

Pickup Baler

Date: 07 28 1939
Description: Four men are working with a Farmall tractor which is pulling a Pickup Baler in a field. In the background on a hill are farm buildings among trees.

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