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Evangelist with Movie Projector
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Rural evangelist John E. Zoller with a Zenith projector and stereopticon with a DeVry generator used during sermons. Original caption reads: "We show excellent pictures, clear and distinct, and we can show them anywhere. Such an outfit is indispensable to the rural worker."
International Harvester Company
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Agricultural Extension Employee Setting Up Film Projector
1915
An employee of International Harvester's Agricultural Extension Department loads 35mm film into a movie projector.
Neighborhood Children Watching a Movie
August 12, 1948
Tim Schyska, 610 Clymer Place, with a movie projector showing a movie in his backyard to a group of neighborhood children.
Jean Larson Operating Movie Projector
October 12, 1944
Jean Larson, at the time one of three women projectionists in the country, operating the movie projector at the University of Wisconsin Memorial Union Play Circle. Traditionally this position was h...
War Movie Advertisement
July 1942
Photographic copy of an advertisement featuring two film strips with scenes from the movies "The Strong Shall be Free" and "The Marines Have Landed." The movie stills show former Harvester employee...
IHC exhibit at the American Library Association Conference
June 1928
Man sitting in an exhibit of International Harvester films at an American Library Association Conference. The exhibit was titled: "Moving Pictures and the Library" and included photographs, text an...
Reel Storage and Repair
1929
Agricultural Extension worker repairing reels of film in a storage room.
