Photograph
Deering Works Canvas Department
| Female factory workers stand around long tables in the canvas department at International Harvester's Deering Works Canvas Department. Canvas is piled in rolls beneath the tables and folded in large stacks. The canvas was likely used for grain binders, harvester-threshers (combines) and push machines. |
| Image ID: | 79313 |
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| Creation Date: | 1910 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Chicago |
| County: | |
| State: | Illinois |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company corporate archives central file (documented series), 1819-1998 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | photographic print, b&w |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 6Z, Box 1182 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 inches |
| The Deering Works was built by William Deering for the Deering Harvester Company in 1880. In 1902 the factory became International Harvester's Deering Works. It was located at Fullerton and Clybourn Avenues and closed in 1933. |
| Ceilings |
| Windows |
| Cross dressing |
| Work clothes |
| Factories |
| Agricultural machinery industry |
| Textile industry |
| Indoor photography |
| Women |
| Signs and signboards |
| Blue collar workers |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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