Photograph
Memphis Foundry
| An aerial view of the International Harvester Memphis Works in Memphis, Tennessee, with a view of the surrounding neighborhood and Loosahatchie River. The factory, built to assume production of many items from Chattanooga Plow Works, was in operation from 1946 to 1985, and produced cotton machines, balers, disk plows, harrows, listers and middlebusters, cutters, toolbars and bedders, and lister cultivators.The Memphis Works closed in the eighties as part of International Harvester's restructuring process and eventual sale of agricultural equipment line to J.I. Case Company. |
| Image ID: | 45842 |
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| Creation Date: | circa 1954 |
| Creator Name: | International Harvester Company |
| City: | Memphis |
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| State: | Tennessee |
| Collection Name: | International Harvester Company corporate archives central file (documented series), 1819-1998 |
| Genre: | Photograph |
| Original Format Type: | negative, b/w copy |
| Original Format Number: | MCC MSS 6Z, Box 1320 Folder 11550 D11664 |
| Original Dimensions: | 10 x 8 inches |
| Cities and towns |
| Water towers |
| Factories |
| Aerial photographs |
| Agricultural machinery industry |
| Rivers |
| Roads |
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